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UN / BAN VIOLENT EXTREMISM
STORY: UN / BAN VIOLENT EXTREMISM
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 JANUARY 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
15 JANUARY 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Trusteeship Council
3. Wide shot, dais
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Violent extremism is a direct assault on the United Nations Charter and a grave threat to international peace and security. We are all appalled by the barbaric crimes that terrorist groups such as Daesh, Boko Haram and others are committing against humanity. They have brazenly kidnapped young girls, systematically denied women’s rights, destroyed cultural institutions, warped the peaceful values of religions, and brutally murdered thousands of innocents around the world.”
5. Wide shot, dais
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“The international community has every right to defend against this threat using lawful means, but we must pay particular attention to addressing the causes of violent extremism if this problem is to be resolved in the long run. There is no single pathway to violent extremism. But we know that extremism flourishes when human rights are violated, political space is shrunk, aspirations for inclusion are ignored, and too many people – especially young people – lack prospects and meaning in their lives.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Poisonous ideologies do not emerge from thin air. Oppression, corruption and injustice are greenhouses for resentment. Extremists are adept at cultivating alienation. That is why I have been urging leaders to work harder to build inclusive institutions that are truly accountable to people.”
9. Med shot, French Ambassador
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Sweeping definitions of terrorism or violent extremism are often used to criminalize the legitimate actions of opposition groups, civil society organizations and human rights defenders. Governments should not use these types of sweeping definitions as a pretext to attack or silence one’s critics. Once again, violent extremists deliberately seek to incite such over-reactions. We must not fall into the trap.”
11. Wide shot, Trusteeship Council
Violent extremism is “a direct assault on the United Nations Charter and a grave threat to international peace and security”, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today (15 Jan) while presenting a new plan of action to prevent violence stemming from “poisonous ideologies.”
Ban told Member States of the UN General Assembly that “we are all appalled by the barbaric crimes that groups such as Da’esh, Boko Haram and others are committing against humanity,” noting that the threat of violent extremism is not limited to any one religion, nationality or ethnic group, but that the vast majority of victims worldwide are Muslims.
Extremists, he said, have “brazenly kidnapped” young girls, systematically denied women’s rights, destroyed cultural institutions, warped the peaceful values of religions, and brutally murdered thousands of innocents around the world.”
In his new strategy – called the Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism – the Secretary-General calls for a comprehensive approach encompassing not only essential security-based counter-terrorism measures but also systematic preventive steps to address the underlying conditions that drive individuals to radicalize and join violent extremist groups.
The Secretary-General said the international community “has every right to defend against this threat using lawful means, but we must pay particular attention to addressing the causes of violent extremism if this problem is to be resolved in the long run.”
He stressed that “extremism flourishes when human rights are violated, political space is shrunk, aspirations for inclusion are ignored, and too many people – especially young people – lack prospects and meaning in their lives.”
Oppression, corruption and injustice, Ban noted, “are greenhouses for resentment.”
He also pointed out that “sweeping definitions of terrorism or violent extremism are often used to criminalize the legitimate actions of opposition groups, civil society organizations and human rights defenders.”
The Secretary-General called on governments not to use these types of sweeping definitions “as a pretext to attack or silence one’s critics.”
The plan appeals for concerted action by the international community, and provides more than 70 recommendations to Member States and the United Nations System to prevent the further spread of violent extremism.
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