GENEVA / VENEZUELA HUMAN RIGHTS

Ten journalists were injured, including five wounded by buckshot while covering demonstrations in the Venezuela’s capital Caracas on May first, said UN Human Rights Office’s spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani, also reminding Venezuelan authorities that it is their “overarching duty” to protect its people. UNTV CH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:01
• Production Date: 3 May 2019
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - OHCHR
• Subject Topical: HUMAN RIGHTS; PROTEST MOVEMENTS
• Geographic Subject: VENEZUELA
• MAMS Id: 2388440
• Parent Id: 2388440
• Alternate Title: unifeed190503a

Description

STORY: GENEVA / VENEZUELA HUMAN RIGHTS
TRT: 1:01
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 03 MAY 2019 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Shotlist

1. Exterior shot, Palais des Nations
2. Wide shot, Room III, Palais des Nations
3. Wide shot, Journalists typing
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravina Shamdasani, OHCHR:
“We have received credible reports of attacks on journalists covering the demonstration. We understand that at least ten journalists were injured on the 1st of May, including five who were wounded by buckshot.”
5. Close up, journalist
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravina Shamdasani, OHCHR:
“According to reports that we have received, in the past two days of demonstrations, five demonstrators have been killed by firearms.”
7. Med shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravina Shamdasani, OHCHR:
“We issued a comment on Wednesday calling on the authorities – reminding the State authorities- that it is their overarching duty to ensure the protection of the people of Venezuela, that no excessive force should be used.”
9. Close up, camera
10. Close up, journalist, panel in background
11. Close up, journalists typing

Storyline

The UN Human Rights office voiced its concern today in Geneva for protesters and journalists who have been injured or killed in Anti-government protests in Venezuela. As thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets for May Day protests against the government of Nicolas Maduro, reports of casualties among the demonstrators are mounting, a spokesperson said.

Ravina Shamdasani, speaking on behalf of UN Human Rights (OHCHR), told journalists that “in the past two days of demonstrations, five demonstrators have been killed by firearms.” Of these five, a 16-year-old and 23-year-old man who were killed on the 30th of April were killed by “pro-government armed individuals.”

OHCHR noted that there have also been “reports of attacks on journalists covering the demonstration.”

“We understand that at least ten journalists were injured on the 1st of May, including five who were wounded by buckshot,” Shamdasani told the press that the authorities of Venezuela had the “overarching duty to ensure the protection of the people of Venezuela, that no excessive force should be used.”