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STORY: UN / INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 07 MARCH 2017, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
07 MARCH 2017, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais
3. Med shot, photographer
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Lakshmi Puri, Asistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women:
“We clearly need to make a giant leap towards closing these gaps, whether it is the equal pay gap - which is 23 percent at the least, and in some countries it is even bigger, and in some sectors it is even bigger. The income gap, one tenth of the global income women have, and they do two thirds of the world’s work in terms of the hours they spent.”
5. Wide shot, press
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Lakshmi Puri, Asistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women:
“We really need to do, continue to do, more and more work about holding governments accountable, holding other stakeholders also accountable on implementing what is a comprehensive, transformative, universal commitment that has been made to gender’s equality and women’s human rights.”
7. Close up, photographer
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Lakshmi Puri, Asistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women:
“I would expect that since this is a UN host country and the CSW is being held here, it would be only expected that all those who are, for example in the case of civil society, all those who are in consultative status with the ECOSOC, from all countries, will be allowed and will be given a visa.”
9. Med shot, press
10. Zoom out, end of briefing
FILE – UNWOMEN - 21 MAY 2014, INDONESIA
11. Med Shot, women collect water from well
FILE – UNWOMEN - 16 JANUARY 2017, PORT VICTORIA, SEYCHELLES
12. Med shot, woman supervising port area
FILE – UNWOMEN - 15 JANUARY 2017, PORT VICTORIA, SEYCHELLES
13. Wide shot, female lab technician runs tests
FILE – UNWOMEN - 16 MARCH 2016, LISBON, PORTUGAL
14. Various shots, female student works on architectural model
FILE – UNWOMEN - NOVEMBER 2014, MONTENEGRO
15. Various shots, female office manager works with female colleague
Ahead of International Women’s Day, an official from the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UNWOMEN) said “a giant leap” is needed in order to close the equal pay and income gaps.
Talking to reporters in New York, Lakshmi Puri, who is the Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, said the equal pay gap stands at “23 percent at the least, and in some countries it is even bigger, and in some sectors it is even bigger.”
On the income gap, she said, “one tenth of the global income women have, and they do two thirds of the world’s work in terms of the hours they spent.”
Puri said governments and other stakeholders should be held accountable “on implementing what is a comprehensive, transformative, universal commitment that has been made to gender’s equality and women’s human rights.”
The UN official commented on the United States’ travel ban affecting six countries in Africa and the Middle East and how it will affect the upcoming Commission on the Status of Women annual session to be held in New York.
Puri said “I would expect that since this is a UN host country and the CSW is being held here, it would be only expected that all those who are, for example in the case of civil society, all those who are in consultative status with the ECOSOC, from all countries, will be allowed and will be given a visa.”
The 2017 theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March, focuses on “Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030.”
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