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BANGLADESH / ROHINGYA CHILDREN WRAP
STORY: BANGLADESH / ROHINGYA CHILDREN WRAP
TRT: 2:22
SOURCE: UNICEF / UNTV CH
RESTRICTION: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN / EMBARGOED UNTIL 00:01 GMT 20 OCTOBER 2017
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2017, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH / 19 OCTOBER 2017 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
9 OCTOBER 2017, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
1. Wide aerial shot, Rohingya refugees having just crossed border into Bangladesh
15 SEPTEMBER 2017, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
2. Wide shot, Rohingya women and children carrying belongings near Palong Khali
3. Wide shot, Rohingya women and children carrying belongings
19 OCTOBER 2017 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Ingram, Senior Communication Advisor, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“In the longer term it is the sense that these children just feel so abandoned, so completely remote and without a means of finding support or help and in a sense it is no surprise that they must truly see this place as a hell on earth.”
6 OCTOBER 2017, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
5. Med shot, women and children sitting in the truck
6. Close up, 2-month old baby in the truck
30 SEPTEMBER 2017, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
7. Close up, baby being weighed in UNICEF nutrition centre
8. Med shot, infant on mother’s lap — infant’s arm being measured
9. Close up, infant’s arm being measured
19 OCTOBER 2017 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Ingram, Senior Communication Advisor, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“The health situation of many of the children, even as they arrive, is pretty desperate. They arrive hungry, they arrive thin, many of them are clearly malnourished, the level of malnutrition that we have seen, something like one in 5 children under the age of 5, are malnourished, acutely malnourished which means that they really need medical attention in order to regain the body weight that they need.”
14 OCTOBER 2017, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
11. Wide shot, women and children wading through water having just arrived on boats at Shapuri Island in Bangladesh
12. Wide shot, men moor boat on beach in Shapuri Island
13. Wide shot, Border Guard of Bangladesh and the newly arrived refugees
19 OCTOBER 2017 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Ingram, Senior Communication Advisor, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“There is the risk of people, of individuals, who will get into the camps who will be on the lookout for opportunities to exploit vulnerable children who become separated from their families whether they are actual traffickers or people who see an opportunity to put these children into all sorts of harm’s way, and that is something which we are very cognizant of going forward.”
01 OCTOBER 2017, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
14. Wide shot, exterior UNICEF classroom
15. Med shot, girl receives drawing supplies
16. Close up, drawing supplies, with UNICEF notebook on top.
17. Wide shot, girl in white shirt standing in circle of children around the room
18. Close up, girl
19. Wide shot, children in child-friendly space
20. Med shot, girls playing board game
21. Close up, girl
Desperate living conditions and waterborne diseases are threatening more than 320,000 Rohingya refugee children who have fled to southern Bangladesh since late August, including some 10,000 who crossed from Myanmar over the past few days, UNICEF said today.
In a newly-released report – Outcast and Desperate: Rohingya refugee children face a perilous future – UNICEF says that most of the refugees are living in overcrowded and insanitary makeshift settlements. Despite an expanding international aid effort led by the Government of Bangladesh, the essential needs of many children are not being met.
Speaking to reporters in Geneva today (19 Oct), the author of the report and UNICEF’s Senior Communication Advisor Simon Ingram said “these children just feel so abandoned, so completely remote and without a means of finding support or help and in a sense it is no surprise that they must truly see this place as a hell on earth.”
High levels of severe acute malnutrition among young children have been found in the camps, and antenatal services to mothers and babies are lacking. Support for children traumatised by violence also needs to be expanded.
Ingram also warned “the health situation of many of the children, even as they arrive, is pretty desperate. They arrive hungry, they arrive thin, many of them are clearly malnourished,” adding that “the level of malnutrition that we have seen, something like one in 5 children under the age of 5, are malnourished, acutely malnourished which means that they really need medical attention in order to regain the body weight that they need.”
The report also says that in the chaotic setting of the camps, children and youth could fall prey to traffickers and others looking to exploit and manipulate them.
Ingram said “there is the risk of people, of individuals, who will get into the camps who will be on the lookout for opportunities to exploit vulnerable children who become separated from their families whether they are actual traffickers or people who see an opportunity to put these children into all sorts of harm’s way, and that is something which we are very cognizant of going forward.”
Well over half a million Rohingya people have crossed into Bangladesh’s southern district of Cox’s Bazaar since late August after escaping horrific violence in neighbouring Myanmar. They have joined some 200,000 others who came in earlier refugee influxes. Almost 60 per cent of the latest arrivals are children, crossing at a rate of between 1,200 and 1,800 per day.
UNICEF is calling for an end to the atrocities targeting civilians in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, and for humanitarian actors to be given immediate and unfettered access to all children affected by the violence there. At present, UNICEF has no access to Rohingya children in Northern Rakhine State.
The report says a long-term solution to the crisis in Rakhine State is also needed and must address the issues of statelessness and discrimination, as recommended by the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State.
Ahead of an international pledging conference on 23 October in Geneva, UNICEF is urging donors to respond urgently to the requirements of the updated Bangladesh Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) released by the UN and humanitarian agencies. It calls for $434 million, which includes US$76.1 million to address the immediate needs of newly-arrived Rohingya children, as well as those who arrived before the recent influx, and children from vulnerable host communities.
Expanding the provision of safe water, sanitation and improved hygiene for Rohingya children is the top priority of the appeal, amid concerns over a possible outbreak of diarrhea and other waterborne diseases. Most Rohingya children are not fully immunized against diseases such as measles. UNICEF is also focused on providing Rohingya children with learning and support services in child-friendly spaces, and working with our partners to address gender-based violence.
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