UN / DISABILITIES

Joined by celebrated musician Stevie Wonder, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon marked the 10th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities calling on "national and local governments, businesses and all actors in society to intensify efforts to end discrimination and remove the environmental and attitudinal obstacles that prevent persons with disabilities from enjoying their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:28
• Production Date: 2 December 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: BAN KI-MOON
• Subject Topical: DISABILITY
• MAMS Id: 1787546
• Parent Id: 1787546
• Alternate Title: unifeed161202b

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STORY: UN / DISABILITIES
TRT: 02:28
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 02 NOVEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

02 NOVEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY

2. wide shot, conference room
3. Med shot, audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“I call on national and local governments, businesses and all actors in society to intensify efforts to end discrimination and remove the environmental and attitudinal obstacles that prevent persons with disabilities from enjoying their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.”
5. Various shots, applause
6. Wide shot, dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Stevie Wonder, United Nations Messenger of Peace:
“Leaders must lead, and citizens must act to eradicate hatred and bigotry of any kind and everywhere so that we can be a united people of the world. Let us not become handicapped again, blind to the issues and the problems of those in need.”
8. Various shots, applause
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Stevie Wonder, United Nations Messenger of Peace:
“We must understand that even though it is considered that we have a so-called disability, we really are able persons with different abilities. But at the end of the day we must come together and make however and wherever we are in the world be a place of unification, because me being blind visually doesn’t mean that I have to be blind spiritually. And someone being sighted doesn’t mean that they should be blind to those things in the world that we need to fix.”
10. Various shots, CPRD 10 years PSA

Storyline

Marking the 10th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and ahead of the International Day of Disabled Persons, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today (2 Dec) called on "national and local governments, businesses and all actors in society to intensify efforts to end discrimination and remove the environmental and attitudinal obstacles that prevent persons with disabilities from enjoying their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.”

Singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder, who is a United Nations Messenger of Peace with a focus on persons with disabilities, joined the Secretary-General and said “leaders must lead, and citizens must act to eradicate hatred and bigotry of any kind and everywhere so that we can be a united people of the world.”

Stevie Wonder said “let us not become handicapped again, blind to the issues and the problems of those in need.”

During an earlier interview the celebrated musician said “even though it is considered that we have a so-called disability, we really are able persons with different abilities.”

He said “me being blind visually doesn’t mean that I have to be blind spiritually. And someone being sighted doesn’t mean that they should be blind to those things in the world that we need to fix.”

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted on 13 December 2006 by the General Assembly.