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OHCHR / BACHELET HRC UKRAINE
STORY: OHCHR / BACHELET HRC UKRAINE
TRT: 3:10
SOURCE: OHCHR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 28 FEBRUARY 2022, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
28 FEBRUARY 2022, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, Palais des Nations, exterior
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (English): Michelle Bachelet UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“Throughout history, there have been moments of profound gravity that cut the course of events between a ‘before’ – and a very different, more harmful, ‘after.’ We are at such a tipping point.”
4. Med shot, participants
5. SOUNDBITE (English): Michelle Bachelet UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“The military attack on Ukraine is putting at risk countless lives. Between Thursday morning and last night, our office has recorded 406 civilian casualties, including 102 killed (including seven children) and 304 injured. Most of these civilians were killed by explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multi-launch rocket systems and airstrikes. The real figures are, I fear, considerably higher.”
6. Close up, Ukraine representative
7. SOUNDBITE (English), Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“Meanwhile, millions of civilians, including vulnerable and older people, are forced to huddle in different forms of bomb shelters, such as underground stations, to escape explosions. UNHCR reported that 422,000 people have fled the country – and many more are internally displaced. My thoughts go out to them and to all those across the world who suffer.”
8. Close up, Russian representative
9. SOUNDBITE (English): Michelle Bachelet UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“The calls for peace and human rights that are coming from individuals all over the world warn us that our future must not be a world that has become unmoored from the jointly agreed obligations of international human rights law and from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
10. Wide shot, conference room
11. SOUNDBITE (English): Michelle Bachelet UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“Over the next three days, an unprecedented number of dignitaries will participate in this high-level segment. This is a vital opportunity to come together and meet this grave and pivotal moment with action. I ask that as we do so, all of us place, first and foremost, the world’s people – their shared, and universal, aspirations and rights – at the centre of our deliberations.”
12. Wide shot, conference room
13. SOUNDBITE (English): Michelle Bachelet UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“There are no winners and no losers here. We are all diminished by conflict.”
14. Wide shot, conference room
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Bachelet UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“We know that once violence begins to escalate, options for solutions become increasingly difficult. This is true both within societies and between countries.”
16. Wide shot, conference room
17. SOUNDBITE (English): Michelle Bachelet UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“This is a call that demands solidarity. There are no sidelines to sit on, and there is no room for mixed signals. The UN Charter, the Agenda for Sustainable Development, our shared environmental crises, and the pandemic all require global responses that live up to the commitments we have made.”
18. Wide shot, conference room
Delivering her statement on Ukraine, UN Human Rights Chief called for strong leadership at a moment of “profound gravity” and noted, “there are no winners and no losers here. We are all diminished by conflict.”
“Throughout history, there have been moments of profound gravity, that cut the course of events between a “before” – and a very different, more harmful, “after”. We are at such a tipping point,” Michelle Bachelet, High Commissioner for Human Rights, said today (28 Feb) to the High-Level Segment at the 49th session of the Human rights Council in Geneva.
“The military attack on Ukraine is putting at risk countless lives. Between Thursday morning and last night, our office has recorded 406 civilian casualties, including 102 killed (including seven children) and 304 injured. Most of these civilians were killed by explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multi-launch rocket systems and airstrikes. The real figures are, I fear, considerably higher,” Bachelet added.
“Meanwhile, millions of civilians, including vulnerable and older people, are forced to huddle in different forms of bomb shelters, such as underground stations, to escape explosions. UNHCR reported that 422,000 people have fled the country – and many more are internally displaced. My thoughts go out to them and to all those across the world who suffer,” Bachelet said.
“The calls for peace and human rights that are coming from individuals all over the world warn us that our future must not be a world that has become unmoored from the jointly agreed obligations of international human rights law and from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” she added.
“Over the next three days, an unprecedented number of dignitaries will participate in this high-level segment. This is a vital opportunity to come together and meet this grave and pivotal moment with action. I ask that as we do so, all of us place, first and foremost, the world’s people – their shared, and universal, aspirations and rights – at the centre of our deliberations,” said Bachelet.
“We know that once violence begins to escalate, options for solutions become increasingly difficult. This is true both within societies and between countries,” Bachelet stressed.
“This is a call that demands solidarity. There are no sidelines to sit on, and there is no room for mixed signals. The UN Charter, the Agenda for Sustainable Development, our shared environmental crises, and the pandemic all require global responses that live up to the commitments we have made.”
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