UN / COI SYRIA PRESSER

The chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the human rights in Syria said that “Not a single warring party [in Syria] respects international humanitarian law, the Geneva conventions, or the conventions on human rights.” UNIFEED-UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:01
• Production Date: 22 February 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON THE SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
• Subject Topical: HUMAN RIGHTS
• Geographic Subject: SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 1568600
• Parent Id: 1568600
• Alternate Title: unifeed160222a

Description

STORY: UN / COI SYRIA PRESSER
TRT: 02:01
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 22 FEBRUARY 2016, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

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1. Wide shot, flags outside UN Headquarters

22 FEBRUARY 2016, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press room
3. Cutaway, audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English), Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic:
“Not a single warring party respects international humanitarian law, the Geneva conventions, or the conventions on human rights. There is an encompassing disrespect for the rules of engagement in this war.”
5. Cutaway, audience
6. SOUNDBITE (English), Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic:
“All warring parties, pro-government forces, anti-government armed groups and the terrorists groups ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra and its associates carry out indiscriminate attacks by firing shells onto civilian inhabited areas under control of the opposition.”
7. Cutaway, audience
8. SOUNDBITE (English), Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic:
“The ongoing destruction of homes, hospitals, schools markets and bakeries makes it nearly impossible for people to meet most basic needs and forces them to live in constant fear for their lives.”
9. Cutaway, podium
10. SOUNDBITE (English), Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic:
“The Commission thinks that suffering of Syrian people must stop now. This carnage has to end. The Commission is hopeful that the ongoing political process will continue and that this will be reflected in concrete changes in Syrians’ daily lives. Indiscriminate attacks must stop. Sieges have to be lifted. The international community, the Security Council and the General Assembly, they owe the Syrian victims this much.”
11. Zoom out, end press conference

Storyline

The chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the human rights in Syria said that “not a single warring party [in Syria] respects international humanitarian law, the Geneva conventions, or the conventions on human rights.”

Speaking to reporters today (22 Feb) in New York following the release of its latest report, Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro said “there is an encompassing disrespect for the rules of engagement in this war,” and that “all warring parties, pro-government forces, anti-government armed groups and the terrorists groups ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra and its associates carry out indiscriminate attacks by firing shells onto civilian inhabited areas.”

The report said that “as the conflict has intensified, civilians remain the primary victims, and are often the object of deliberate attacks by the warring parties” and that “flagrant violations of human rights and international humanitarian law continue unabated, aggravated by blatant impunity.

It also states that relevant Security Council resolutions remain largely unheeded and unimplemented and that "crimes against humanity continue to be committed by government forces and by Islamic State in Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS).”