UN / VIOLENCE WOMEN GIRLS

Addressing an event marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women at United Nations Headquarters, Secretary-General António Guterres said “the recent emergence of reports detailing sexual harassment in the workplace from many organizations and institutions worldwide shows how pervasive this form of sexual violence is.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:33
• Production Date: 22 November 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: ANTONIO GUTERRES
• Subject Topical: ETHNIC CLEANSING; GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE; WOMEN
• Geographic Subject: MYANMAR
• MAMS Id: 2045143
• Parent Id: 2045143
• Alternate Title: unifeed171122d

Description

STORY: UN / VIOLENCE WOMEN GIRLS
TRT: 02:33
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 22 NOVEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

22 NOVEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY

2. Various shots, musical performance by Emily Bautista
3. Wide shot, dais
4. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The recent emergence of reports detailing sexual harassment in the workplace from many organizations and institutions worldwide shows how pervasive this form of sexual violence is.”
5. Med shot, audience
6. Wide shot, ECOSOC chamber
7. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“It is time to further our collective action to end violence against women and girls for good.
That takes all of us working together in our own countries, regions and communities, at the same time, towards the same goal. The United Nations is committed to addressing violence against women in all its forms.”
8. Wide shot, audience
9. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Violence against women is fundamentally about power. It will only end when gender equality and the full empowerment of women will be a reality. My policy on gender parity in the United Nations is one step towards achieving this goal so that we can access and capitalize on the full potential of all staff. More broadly, I hope we are now seeing unprecedented momentum towards empowering women and achieving gender equality across the board and across the globe.”
10. Pan left, audience applause
11. Wide shot, presser
12. Med shot, journalists
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Pramila Patten, UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict:
“Given that the sexual violence was targeted against the women on the basis of their religion and ethnicity as a form of collective punishment and persecution against the group as a whole, I really believe that widespread and systematic rape was used to cause serious bodily and mental harm to members of the group to shred the social fabric, to force civilians to flee the country. And all this would essentially amount to a step in the process of group destruction.”
14. Wide shot, end of presser

Storyline

Addressing an event marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women at United Nations Headquarters, Secretary-General António Guterres today (22 Nov) said “the recent emergence of reports detailing sexual harassment in the workplace from many organizations and institutions worldwide shows how pervasive this form of sexual violence is.”

The Secretary-General said “it is time to further our collective action to end violence against women and girls -- for good” and stressed the organization “is committed to addressing violence against women in all its forms.”

He said “violence against women is fundamentally about power” and “will only end when gender equality and the full empowerment of women will be a reality.”

He said his policy on gender parity in the United Nations “is one step towards achieving this goal so that we can access and capitalize on the full potential of all staff.”

At a later press conferece, the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, spoke about her recent trip to Bangladesh, including Dhaka and Cox’s Bazar.

Asked about whether gender violence committed in Myanmar against the Rohyngia are part of a pattern of ethnic cleansing she said “given that the sexual violence was targeted against the women on the basis of their religion and ethnicity as a form of collective punishment and persecution against the group as a whole, I really believe that widespread and systematic rape was used to cause serious bodily and mental harm to members of the group to shred the social fabric, to force civilians to flee the country. And all this would essentially amount to a step in the process of group destruction.”

Women's activists have marked 25 November as a day against violence since 1981. This date came from the brutal assassination in 1960, of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, on orders of Dominican ruler Rafael Trujillo