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STORY: UN / ORMOND
TRT: 1.51
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 JULY 2007 , NEW YORK CITY
FILE - UNTV - MAY 2007, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations headquarters
19 JULY 2007 , NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Press conference
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations:
" There are large numbers of people today enslaved, and especially trafficking which takes place on a scale which is seldom appreciated, but its estimated that in the last years, for example, in South East Asia alone, thirty million people mostly children have been trafficked."
4. Med shot, press conference
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Julia Ormond, Goodwill Ambassador and Actor, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime:
"We know that the people who do trafficking, do trafficking in drugs, do trafficking in weapons, do trafficking in people, it's a method. Someone is trafficked into slavery and it's enormously profitable and we know that the shift - trafficking in people is the fastest growing global crime - the shift is going from weapons, to drugs, to people and increasingly into children. It's happening because there is virtually nothing being done to address demand and there is a phenomenal endless supply of vulnerable people."
6. Cutaway, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Julia Ormond, Goodwill Ambassador and Actor, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime:
"While women and children often become the vulnerable community to be exploited and all too often not prioritized enough on the global agenda; their victimization and the profit that comes from it is not without consequence to international security. It's precisely because we don't prioritize their security that we allow them to be vulnerable creating greater opportunity for criminals."
8. Wide shot, press conference
Actress and Goodwill Ambassador Julia Ormond said that human trafficking is happening because there is virtually nothing being done to address the demand and there is a "phenomenal endless supply" of vulnerable people.
Ormond joined Britain 's Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Chief Antonio Maria Costa today in New York to brief the press on human trafficking.
Mr. Parry said that it was estimated that in South East Asia alone, thirty million people mostly children had been trafficked.
Ormond said that while women and children often become the vulnerable community to be exploited, their victimization and the profit that comes from it was not without consequence to international security.
Actress and activist Julia Ormond was named UNODC's Goodwill Ambassador in December last year, commemorating the International Day for the abolition of slavery.
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