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SOURCE: UNTV / UNICEF
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 21 OCTOBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN building
21 OCTOBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais
3. Zoom out, audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“We are very clear that human trafficking has to be approached from a human centered point of view; that it is a violation of human rights; and we also are very careful to ensure that we listen and hear from victims and survivors and mainly not only their experience but mainly what recommendations they have on the kind of action they would like to see taken.”
5. Med shot, audience
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ruchira Gupta, Anti-trafficking Activist:
“The disconnect between what the survivors want and policies which are being formulated in many countries right now is that the survivors want accountability, and one of the things that they do want is, they want the demand for human trafficking to be confronted. And by demand I mean those who buy trafficked labor or trafficked sex, and this has been something which has been lacking.”
7. Med shot, audience
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons:
“And until we have a victim centered approach in our response to trafficking, I don’t think we are going to have a sustained or sustainable fight against this ugly phenomenon, modern-day slavery.”
9. Wide shot, dais
FILE - UNICEF - DATE UNKNOWN, RIO DE JANEIRO BRAZIL
10. Wide shot, prostitutes in street
FILE - UNICEF - 20 NOVEMBER 2008, NATAL, BRAZIL
11. Wide shot, girl sitting on the curb of a street approached by man
12. Wide shot, girl standing against a wall
FILE - UNICEF - 4 NOVEMBER 2008, GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA
13. Wide shot, dimly lit street corner with two girls being approached by men
FILE - UNICEF - 15 NOVEMBER 2008, MOMBASA, LIBERIA
14. Various shots, women (blurred faces) at nightclub
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay and other officials briefed reporters today (21 October) in connection with an upcoming special event entitled Giving Voice to Victims and Survivors of Human Trafficking to take place tomorrow at UN Headquarters
The Human Rights Chief announced the participation of four individuals who have survived the ordeal and said that human trafficking has to be approached “from a human centered point of view” and hear from victims and survivors, “not only their experience but mainly what recommendations they have on the kind of action they would like to see taken.”
The award winning journalist and recipient of the 2009 Clinton Global Citizen Award, Ruchira Gupta, who went underground to uncover child trafficking said that the disconnect between what the survivors want and public policies used to combat trafficking “is that the survivors want accountability”, including “demand for human trafficking to be confronted”.
Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, stressed that until there is “a victim centered approach” in response to trafficking, there will not be “a sustained or sustainable fight against this ugly phenomenon, modern-day slavery.”
Amongst the people who will share their testimonies during tomorrow’s event is Charlotte Owino from Uganda who was held as a sex slave for eight years in her own country, Nepalese born Budu Gurung who was forced to work in the US military base in Iraq for 15 months, and Kika Serpa from Venezuela who was sold into prostitution.
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