UNHCR / GRF 2023 HIGH COMMISSIONER SPEECH

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, said, “114 million represents the number of refugees and displaced people whom persecution, human rights violations, violence, armed conflict, serious public disorder have forced from their homes: 114 million shattered dreams, disrupted lives, interrupted hopes. It is a figure that reflects a crisis — many crises — of humanity.” UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:14
• Production Date: 13 December 2023
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: FILIPPO GRANDI
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: REFUGEE ASSISTANCE; REFUGEES
• MAMS Id: 3156322
• Parent Id: 3156322
• Alternate Title: unifeed231213c

Description

STORY: UNHCR / GRF 2023 HIGH COMMISSIONER SPEECH
TRT: 02:14
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 13 DECEMBER 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, plenary room
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“114 million represents the number of refugees and displaced people whom persecution, human rights violations, violence, armed conflict, serious public disorder have forced from their homes: 114 million shattered dreams, disrupted lives, interrupted hopes. It is a figure that reflects a crisis — many crises — of humanity.”
3. Wide shot, plenary room
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“Forced displacement remains an unresolved problem that concerns us all, and not only when we see images of massive flows or when refugees knock at our doors. And which — like other global challenges — is made more difficult by an increasingly divided international community.”
5. Med shot, participants
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“ Let us make this Global Refugee Forum a moment of unity, in which all of us join forces to ensure that those who flee because their life, freedom and security are threatened can find protection; and that everything is done to resolve their exile as soon as possible."
7. Various shots, plenary room

Storyline

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, said, “114 million represents the number of refugees and displaced people whom persecution, human rights violations, violence, armed conflict, serious public disorder have forced from their homes: 114 million shattered dreams, disrupted lives, interrupted hopes. It is a figure that reflects a crisis — many crises — of humanity.” UNHCR

Opening the Global Refugee Forum 2023 today (13 Dec) in Geneva, Grandi said, “Forced displacement remains an unresolved problem that concerns us all, and not only when we see images of massive flows or when refugees knock at our doors.”

He added, “And which — like other global challenges — is made more difficult by an increasingly divided international community.”

The UN Commissioner concluded, “Let us make this Global Refugee Forum a moment of unity, in which all of us join forces to ensure that those who flee because their life, freedom and security are threatened can find protection; and that everything is done to resolve their exile as soon as possible."