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STORY: UN / GLOBAL EDUCATION
TRT: 01:57
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 13 DECEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Close up, United Nations flag in front of UN headquarters
13 DECEMBER, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press conference
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom:
“The number of children trapped in humanitarian crises is now 70 million children, a number that is expected to rise in the year 2018 as the funding gap to meet the needs is going to grow. And that means that more children will be subjected to oppression and rather than opportunity, to exploitation; rather than education, child marriage, child labour, child trafficking, the result of this.”
4. Med shot, photographer
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom:
“These figures are absolutely startling, you are talking about a population of children without protection in these situations bigger than the whole population of the United Kingdom or the population of France. The numbers have continued to grow. It is a crisis. It is 70 million separate individual crises, and in 2018 we’ve got to prove that we can do more to answer the needs of these children.”
6. Med shot, photographers
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom:
“Countries will have to wake up to the fact that there are these 70 million children who are trapped in these humanitarian emergencies and the level of support is simply being insufficient, either for the health care, or for the food, or for the shelter, or for their education. So, our aim is to raise the amount of support that is available from all potential donors, both public and private sector and foundations to make it possible for every child to have the chance. 2018 as I said, Universal declaration of human rights, the right of every child to a full and quality education, and we’ve got to show in 2018, 70 years on that we are doing more that we are doing at the moment to make that a reality for these millions of children.”
8. Med shot, photographer
9. Zoom out, end of presser
United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown, today (13 Dec) said “the number of children trapped in humanitarian crises is now 70 million children, a number that is expected to rise in the year 2018 as the funding gap to meet the needs is going to grow.”
Speaking to reporters in New York, Brown said that unless funding goals are met, “more children will be subjected to oppression and rather than opportunity, to exploitation; rather than education, child marriage, child labour, child trafficking.”
These figures, he said “are absolutely startling” and added that in 2018 “we’ve got to prove that we can do more to answer the needs of these children.”
Brown said, “countries will have to wake up to the fact that there are these 70 million children who are trapped in these humanitarian emergencies and the level of support is simply being insufficient, either for the health care, or for the food, or for the shelter, or for their education.”
The former Prime Minister recalled that 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which calls for the right of every child to receive an education.
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