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GENEVA / UNHCR NY DECLARATION
STORY: GENEVA / UNHCR NY DECLARATION
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 06 SEPTEMBER 2016, GENEVA / FILE
FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1.Wide shot, exterior, Palais des Nations
06 SEPTEMBER 2016, GENEVA
2. Wide shot, press briefing
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Melissa Flemming, Spokesperson, United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR):
“This we believe would be a real significant milestone. Because 194 states they are going to be signing on to this, will declare, number one, their solidarity to the people who were forced to flee their homes. Number two, they will reaffirm their obligations to fully respect the human rights of refugees and migrants. And this is important as we have seen a bit of deterioration or edging back of certain countries, a number of countries in their commitments in their obligations under already existing treaties.”
4. Wide shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Melissa Flemming, Spokesperson, United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR):
“We all saw this, I think again, the wake up call of the Syria crisis – exemplifies everything that needs to be fixed."
6. Close up, journalist
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Melissa Flemming, Spokesperson, United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR):
“If, that again, 86 per cent of the world refugees are in developing countries and a large number in the least developing countries. A refugee can live for a certain amount of time in a tent or a leaky apartment building, a certain amount of time that their kids are not going to school, but only a very short amount of time, especially when the hope is running out when they can return home.
8. Close up, journalist
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Melissa Flemming, Spokesperson, United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR):
“What this new framework would do, would be a game changing response to large movements of refugees into another country.
10.Wide shot, journalists
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Melissa Flemming, Spokesperson, United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR):
“The host countries and communities are buckling under the strain of hosting so many and have had received almost no support from the international community. Development actors in this case will come in and the host community will be supported and bolstered from the outset. There also will be a private dimension here, private actors would come in and financing would be more dependable.”
12. Close up, journalist
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Melissa Flemming, Spokesperson, United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR):
“Before the tendency was, particularly with refugees, to say ‘this is not my problem.” This is the problem of the countries who are hosting the 86 percent of the world’s refugees. And even their it was their problem but they weren’t helping by sharing the responsibility by funding and increasing resettlement.
14 . Wide shot, press briefing
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) today announced in Geneva the New York Declaration on Refugees and Migrants will be a significant milestone and a game changer for refugee protection and for migrants.
The UNHCR Spokesperson Melissa Flemming told the reporters today (06 Sep) in Geneva that “this we believe would be a real significant milestone. Because 194 states they are going to be signing on to this, will declare, number one, their solidarity to the people who were forced to flee their homes. Number two, they will reaffirm their obligations to fully respect the human rights of refugees and migrants. And this is important as we have seen a bit of deterioration or edging back of certain countries, a number of countries in their commitments in their obligations under already existing treaties.”
Describing the ongoing crisis in Syria a “wake up call” that “exemplifies everything that needs to be fixed,” Flemming added “86 per cent of the world refugees are in developing countries and a large number in the least developing countries. A refugee can live for a certain amount of time in a tent or a leaky apartment building, a certain amount of time that their kids are not going to school, but only a very short amount of time, especially when the hope is running out when they can return home.”
Emphasizing the new framework would be “a game changing response to large movements of refugees,” Flemming said “the host countries and communities are buckling under the strain of hosting so many and have had received almost no support from the international community,” adding that “development actors in this case will come in and the host community will be supported and bolstered from the outset. There also will be a private dimension here, private actors would come in and financing would be more dependable.”
Welcoming the G20 declaration on strengthening humanitarian assistance for refugees and refugee resettlement, Flemming said “before the tendency was, particularly with refugees, to say ‘this is not my problem.” This is the problem of the countries who are hosting the 86 percent of the world’s refugees. And even their it was their problem but they weren’t helping by sharing the responsibility by funding and increasing resettlement.”
The Summit for Large Movement of Refugees and Migrants will be held on 19th September this year in New York.
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