GENEVA / MORALES HRC

Bolivian President Evo Morales Ayma took the stage today at UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, delivering a statement that focused largely on alleged violations of human rights suffered by Bolivians at the hands of Chile, whilst transporting goods and people to ports on the Pacific Ocean. UNTV CH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:44
• Production Date: 23 September 2016
• Asset Language: Spanish
• Personal Subject: EVO MORALES AYMA
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - UNHRC
• Subject Topical: HUMAN RIGHTS
• Geographic Subject: BOLIVIA
• MAMS Id: 1716737
• Parent Id: 1716737
• Alternate Title: unifeed160923m

Description

STORY: GENEVA / MORALES HRC
TRT: 2:44
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / NATS

DATELINE: 23 SEPTEMBER 2016 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, exterior, Palais des Nations
2. Various shots, President Morales arriving
4. Wide shot, President Morales arriving at podium
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Evo Morales Ayma, President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia:
“A very sensitive problem which is behind my presence in this Council is that experience by my country Bolivia relating to the human rights violations suffered by women, men and children, whole families in fact, whose job is to transport goods and persons from Bolivia to the Maritime Coast who cross Chilean territory in order to reach the important harbour of the Pacific.”
6. Wide shot, Human Rights Room
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Evo Morales Ayma, President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia:
“There are restrictions and limitations to the transit of merchandise from Bolivia and there are human rights violations of hauliers and carriers and all their families on the road, the controls, the requirements and the unilaterally imposed measures by Chile ensure that hundreds of trucks are obliged to wait for days at the border making queuing in order to enter the country and that means that the carriers have to bare the extremely cold climate in the area, up to minus 15 degrees centigrade the area being at 4 500 above sea level, there is a lack of medical attention in the area and there is a basic lack of food and basic services.”
8. Wide shot, Human Rights Room
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Evo Morales Ayma, President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia:
“Bolivians are being treated in an inhuman and discriminatory way, there is systematic and institutionalised action, measures and conduct by Chilean authorities violating the human rights of Bolivian men and women.”
10. Wide shot, President Morales leaving Human Rights Room

Storyline

Bolivian President Evo Morales Ayma took the stage today (23 Sep) at UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, delivering a statement that focused largely on alleged violations of human rights suffered by Bolivians at the hands of Chile, whilst transporting goods and people to ports on the Pacific Ocean.

Bolivia has a long-standing dispute with its neighbour Chile over access to the Pacific Ocean, dating back to the early 19th century. More recently, two separate proceedings have been referred to the International Court of Justice in the Hague.

President Morales said that “a very sensitive problem which is behind my presence in this Council is that experience by my country Bolivia relating to the human rights violations suffered by women, men and children, whole families in fact, whose job is to transport goods and persons from Bolivia to the maritime coast, who cross Chilean territory in order to reach the important harbour of the Pacific.”

In his speech to the Human Rights Council President Morales described daily humiliations and obstacles that he says are needlessly imposed upon Bolivians traveling to the port of Arica in northern Chile. He said that “there are restrictions and limitations to the transit of merchandise from Bolivia and there are human rights violations of haulers and carriers and all their families on the road. The controls, the requirements and the unilaterally imposed measures by Chile ensure that hundreds of trucks are obliged to wait for days at the border queue in order to enter the country. And that means that the carriers have to bare the extremely cold climate in the area, up to minus 15 degrees centigrade the area being at 4 500 above sea level, there is a lack of medical attention in the area and there is a basic lack of food and basic services.”

President Morales claimed that “Bolivians are being treated in an inhuman and discriminatory way, there is systematic and institutionalised action, measures and conduct by Chilean authorities violating the human rights of Bolivian men and women”.

Chile is expected to take the floor later in the day to exercise its right to reply.