UN / RAQUELINHA

Raquelinha Langa, a 20-year-old high school student and activist from Mozambique who had visited the Secretary-General in 2014, was buried today in Maputo where she died after complications from anaemia.

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:29
• Production Date: 28 March 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: BAN KI-MOON
• Subject Topical: SECRETARY-GENERAL
• Geographic Subject: MOZAMBIQUE
• MAMS Id: 1591346
• Parent Id: 1591346
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Description

STORY: UN / RAQUELINHA
TRT: 01:28
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / PORTUGUESE / NATS

DATELINE: 28 MARCH 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

RECENT - MOZAMBIQUE

1. Med shot, Raquelinha Langa, student from Mozambique
2. Wide shot, Langa addressing Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and students in a classroom
3. Med shot, students in a classroom

28 MARCH 2016, NEW YORK CITY

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General:
“Today we learned with sadness of the passing of Raquelinha Langa, a remarkable young woman from Mozambique. As you may recall, the Secretary-General first met Raquelinha in 2013 when he visited her school in Maputo. At the time, she asked the Secretary-General if she, as a girl, could become Secretary-General and what she needed to do to achieve that goal. In response, and as a way to encourage her, the Secretary-General invited her to come to New York to see what it would be to be Secretary-General for a day.

12 AUGUST 2014, NEW YORK CITY

5. Wide shot, Secretary-General Ban sitting with Raquelinha for an interview

28 MARCH 2016, NEW YORK CITY

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General:
“In a letter to her family, the Secretary-General expressed his deep personal condolences at her passing. He writes that “while her life was short, her legacy will be long. Raquelinha was more than a bright individual from Mozambique; she was the embodiment of why the world needs to invest in the health, well-being and future of young women everywhere.”

12 AUGUST 2014, NEW YORK CITY

7. Med shot, Secretary-General Ban sitting with Raquelinha for an interview
8. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Raquelinha Langa, student from Mozambique
“I was very curious and I wanted to know about all the previous Secretary-Generals, about why among the pictures of the Secretary-Generals at the corridor there were no women. This was my doubt.”
9. Wide shot, Secretary-General Ban sitting with Raquelinha for an interview

Storyline

Raquelinha Langa, a 20-year-old high school student and activist from Mozambique who had visited the Secretary-General in 2014, was buried today (28 March) in Maputo where she died after complications from anaemia.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Raquelinha met for the first time when the SG visited her school in Maputo in 2013. She asked him how a woman could become a UN Secretary-General.

Raquelinha spent International Youth Day August 12th 2014 at UN Headquarters, after Ban invited her to visit New York.

In a letter to her family after her passing, the Secretary-General expressed his deep personal condolences. In a statement read by his Spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, he wrote: “while her life was short, her legacy will be long. Raquelinha was more than a bright individual from Mozambique; she was the embodiment of why the world needs to invest in the health, well-being and future of young women everywhere.”

Raquelinha was being treated during several months until Friday when she passed away.

Her condition deteriorated in such a way that she could not attend classes from the beginning of the school year in February.