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DATELINE: 13 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK / FILE
FILE – OCHA – 8 SEPTEMBER 2010, SUKKUR, GHAUSPUR, PAKISTAN
1. Med shot, Valerie Amos with officials
2. Med shot, Amos meeting women in a displaced persons camp
UNTV - 13 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General, Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations:
“I think what we really got to do with Pakistan is get the world to understand that this is several disasters in one. As the flood waters have moved from the north to the south we are seeing the equivalent of a new disaster every two to three days. And I was in the south of Pakistan where the flood waters haven’t receded at all. They may not recede before the end of the year. Its becoming stagnant and we may be looking at a health crisis and the world really needs to understand this – the magnitude of what we are facing.”
FILE – OCHA – 8 SEPTEMBER 2010, SUKKUR, GHAUSPUR, PAKISTAN
4. Various shots, children collecting clean water
UNTV - 13 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General, Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations:
“There will be a further appeal that will be launched at the end of the week which will look both at the emergency situation and what more we need but also look at early recovery efforts in other parts of the country. In the north, where the waters are receding then its about helping people back to their homes, helping them rebuild their homes and restart economic activity but for other parts of the country we are still in an emergency phase so there will be a revised appeal and we will be asking donors to dig deep.”
FILE – MONUSCO - 1 SEPTEMBER 2010, KIBUA, LUVUNGI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
6. Med shot, gun on jeep through the village
7. Various shots, villagers
8. Wide shot, UN peacekeepers with jeep on guard in the village
10-11 MAY 2010, BOSSASO, SOMALIA
9. Med shot, a camp for internally displaced people (IDP)
10. Med shot, a mother and her children standing next to tents made of cardboard and rags
11. Med shot, children running down a narrow pathway in an IDP camp
12. Med shot, girls walking through garbage dump in an IDP camp
UNTV - 13 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General, Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations:
“While Pakistan is clearly a priority because of its scale, we can’t forget what’s going on in other parts of the world. The DRC is just one example and Sudan, of course, Somalia, all of these are places which have to be on our agenda and where we have to give attention.”
11 AUGUST 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE
14. Wide shot, IDP Camp Canaan
15. Med shot, people in IDP Camp Canaan
16. Various shots, people getting water
UNTV - 13 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General, Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations:
“I know that people are being impatient. They are thinking that it’s all taking far too long but let’s not forget that the government of Haiti have had to rebuild themselves with dealing with a situation where many, many people who were involved in the productive side of making Haiti work were killed. People are still traumatised by what went on so we need to keep the focus on this and some other work that’s being done on rehabilitation and reconstruction is really important in helping Haitians rebuild their lives.”
FILE – OCHA – 8 SEPTEMBER 2010, SUKKUR, GHAUSPUR, PAKISTAN
18. Various shots, Amos with children and UNICEF staff
On her first day of work for the United Nations’ (UN) which began last week, newly appointed humanitarian chief Valerie Amos visited flood affected areas of Pakistan.
She sat down on Monday (13 September) with UNifeed after assessing the damage and said the “world really needs to understand the magnitude of what we are facing” in the country.
Amos said that as the flood waters move from the north to the south “we are seeing the equivalent of a new disaster every two to three days.” In the south, she added, “the flood waters haven’t receded at all” causing the water to be stagnant and contributing to a health crisis.
On funding, the UN reported that donors are mindful of the complexity of the crisis, and provinces are dealing with various stages in the disaster. Parts of the country are still in the emergency relief stage, while other areas are in the early recovery phase.
Amos announced that there will be a revised appeal launched later this week asking “donors to dig deep” into their pockets. The funds, she added, will be used for both emergency and early recovery efforts in the country.
Amos, who recently replaced John Holmes, faces the immediate challenges of a looming humanitarian crisis not only in Pakistan but also in other parts of the world. More recently, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the humanitarian community has become increasingly concerned about the high number of sexual and gender-based violence reported in villages in the Kivus.
On her priorities as the new humanitarian chief, Amos said that “whilst Pakistan is clearly a priority because of its scale, we can’t forget what’s going on in other parts of the world” adding that places like the DRC, Sudan, Somalia, Niger and Haiti will “be on our agenda and where we have to give attention.”
The Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which Amos heads, reported in July that the situation in Haiti continues to be one of large-scale displacement and acute humanitarian emergency. Only $506 million or 18.9 per cent of the international assistance promised for 2010, has so far been provided to carry out the much needed rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts in the country.
Amos said that although it might seem as if the local authorities and the international community are “taking far too long” she added “let’s not forget that the government of Haiti have had to rebuild themselves with dealing with a situation where many, many people who were involved in the productive side of making Haiti work were killed.”
Amos, a long-time British diplomat, became the country’s High Commissioner to Australia before taking up her current UN appointment in New York. As the world body’s humanitarian chief, she will manage fund-raising and delivery of emergency food and supplies to disaster-stricken areas.
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