UN / AFGHANISTAN WOMEN AND GIRLS REPORT

A report released today jointly by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) warned that “Afghan women and girls are being failed by the country's justice system with their access to justice for crimes and violence remaining tenuous.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:22
• Production Date: 7 December 2020
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS ASSISTANCE MISSION IN AFGHANISTAN - UNAMA
• Subject Topical: CHILDREN; WOMEN
• Geographic Subject: AFGHANISTAN
• MAMS Id: 2590101
• Parent Id: 2590101
• Alternate Title: unifeed201207b

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STORY: UN / AFGHANISTAN WOMEN AND GIRLS REPORT
TRT: 1:22
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 7 DECEMBER 2020, NEW YORK

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1. Exterior shot, national flags at the UN Headquarters

7 DECEMBER 2020, NEW YORK

2. Med shot, spokesperson removing facemask at the podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General:
“A report released today by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and the UN Human Rights Office warns Afghan women and girls are being failed by the country's justice system with their access to justice for crimes and violence remaining tenuous. UNAMA found that only half of the reported crimes reached a primary court with perpetrators convicted in only 40 percent of all documented cases. Other issues raised in the report include the problematic handling of rape cases and ongoing detention of women for - quote - running away.”
4. Cutaway, reporters
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General:
“Throughout the global campaign for 16 days of activism against gender-based violence from the 25th [November] to the 10th of December, the United Nations in Afghanistan calls for an increasing effort to prevent and redress violence against women and girls. This is particularly important in the context of the outbreak of COVID with the ongoing monitoring by the UN mission suggesting that violence against women and girls increased as difficulties for victims in reporting crimes and accessing safety and justice has also increased.”
6. Cutaway, reporters

Storyline

A report released today jointly by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) warned that “Afghan women and girls are being failed by the country's justice system with their access to justice for crimes and violence remaining tenuous.”

The UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York that UNAMA found that “only half of the reported crimes reached a primary court with perpetrators convicted in only 40 percent of all documented cases.”

From 25 November, until 10 December every year, the United Nations is running global campaign for “16 days of activism against gender-based violence.”

As part of the campaign, UNAMA calls for “an increasing effort to prevent and redress violence against women and girls., said Dujarric. “This is particularly important in the context of the outbreak of COVID with the ongoing monitoring by the UN mission suggesting that violence against women and girls increased as difficulties for victims in reporting crimes and accessing safety and justice has also increased.”

Among other issues addressed by the report are “the problematic handling of rape cases and ongoing detention of women for - quote - running away.,” said Dujarric.