OHCHR / LEBANON EXPLOSIONS

The Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rupert Colville, said, “this week's horrific blast in Beirut has brought into sharp focus the need for the international community to step up and to help Lebanon and its people in this time of terrible crisis.” UNTV CH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:00:52
• Production Date: 7 August 2020
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: MICHELLE BACHELET JERIA
• Corporate Name: OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - OHCHR
• Subject Topical: DISASTER RELIEF; HUMAN RIGHTS
• Geographic Subject: LEBANON
• MAMS Id: 2553181
• Parent Id: 2553181
• Alternate Title: unifeed200807b

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STORY: OHCHR / LEBANON EXPLOSIONS
TRT: 00:52
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 07 AUGUST 2020, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

1. Wide shot, exterior Palais des Nations

07 AUGUST 2020, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, Spokesperson, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“This week's horrific blast in Beirut has brought into sharp focus the need for the international com-munity to step up and to help Lebanon and its people in this time of terrible crisis.”

FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

3. Wide shot, exterior Palais des Nations

07 AUGUST 2020, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, Spokesperson, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“Only a swift and huge international response and sustained engagement will prevent many more lives being lost.”

FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

5. Wide shot, exterior Palais des Nations

07 AUGUST 2020, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, Spokesperson, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“Today, every Lebanese is weighing how they will manage going forward after the triple tragedy of this socio-economic crisis, COVID-19 and the ammonium nitrate explosion.”

FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

7. Wide shot, exterior Palais des Nations

07 AUGUST 2020, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, Spokesperson, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“With large swathes of Beirut unfit to live in, the country's principle port all but destroyed and the health system on its knees, the situation is really dire.”

FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

9. Wide shot, exterior Palais des Nations

Storyline

The Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rupert Colville, today (7 Aug) said, “this week's horrific blast in Beirut has brought into sharp focus the need for the international community to step up and to help Lebanon and its people in this time of terrible crisis.”

Colville said, “only a swift and huge international response and sustained engagement will prevent many more lives being lost.”

He said, “every Lebanese is weighing how they will manage going forward after the triple tragedy of this socio-economic crisis, COVID-19, and the ammonium nitrate explosion.”

The spokesperson stressed that “with large swathes of Beirut unfit to live in, the country's principle port all but destroyed and the health system on its knees, the situation is really dire.”

High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called for a swift international response and sustained engagement to prevent many more lives being lost.