MYANMAR / GRANDI DISPLACED

In his first official visit to Myanmar this week, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi met with displaced persons in the country’s restive Rakhine state to underscore the need for durable solutions to exclusion, poverty and inter-communal division. UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:45
• Production Date: 6 July 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: FILIPPO GRANDI
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: DISPLACED PERSONS
• Geographic Subject: MYANMAR
• MAMS Id: 1925302
• Parent Id: 1925302
• Alternate Title: unifeed170706d

Description

STORY: MYANMAR / GRANDI DISPLACED
TRT: 1:45
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 2 JULY 2017, SITTWE, RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR

Shotlist

1. Wide of displaced people on the street of camp
2. Med shot, children at the camp
3. Various shots, woman breaking rocks to use in toilets
4. Wide shot, Grandi arriving
5. Grandi walking in a camp, shaking hands with kid
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“You can see how difficult the living conditions are. Small houses. The weather here is very harsh. You have torrential rains, storms, people barely have any protections.”
7. Various shots, girl playing in the camp
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“There are many difficulties with access to education after the 5th grade because there is nothing inside the camp, access to health except for basic health services. There are issues of freedom of movement, and then there is the fundamental issue of the status of these people.”
9. Various shots, Grandi meeting displaced
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“These people deserve a better future than the present conditions of extreme poverty, deprivation and isolation.”
11. Wide shot, children
12. Med shot, women in camp
13. Wide shot, women in camp

Storyline

In his first visit to Myanmar, UN Refugee Chief Filippo Grandi met with displaced Muslims who fled inter-communal violence five years ago.

SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“You can see how difficult the living conditions are. Small houses. The weather here is very harsh. You have torrential rains, storms, people barely have any protections.”

Deep-rooted discrimination, sporadic violence and a recent security crackdown have led tens of thousands to flee their villages.

SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“There are many difficulties with access to education after the 5th grade because there is nothing inside the camp, access to health except for basic health services. There are issues of freedom of movement, and then there is the fundamental issue of the status of these people.”

Many are Muslims from Rakhine state who now live in camps like this.

SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“These people deserve a better future than the present conditions of extreme poverty, deprivation and isolation.”

Around 1 million Muslims live without citizenship in Rakhine state.