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GENEVA / COTE D’IVOIRE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

The UN Human Rights Council begins a special session on the deteriorating situation in the Ivory Coast, where disputed election results have led to violence. UNTV
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STORY: GENEVA / COTE D’IVOIRE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
TRT: 2:33
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: FRENCH / ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 23 DECEMBER 2010, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / RECENT

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RECENT - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

1. Wide shot, aerial view of UN Geneva headquarters

23 DECEMBER 2010, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. Wide shot, Human Rights Council meeting
3. Cutaway, Cote d’Ivoire delegate
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Ambassador M. Jean-Baptiste Mattei, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations:
“We condemn the serious acts of repression made against of the people who had gathered peacefully to exercise their rights. We also condemn the restrictions imposed on the independent media. There are many reports of other very serious human rights violations since the elections, including arrests and arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, and sexual violence against women. These intolerable acts were deliberately perpetrated against civilians so as to sow fear. All these cases must be brought to justice and be the subject of impartial and transparent investigations.”
5. Cutaway, Nigerian delegate
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Betty King, United States:
“Reports of mass human rights violations and abuses, including enforced disappearances, targeted killings, arbitrary detentions, and intimidation of those that oppose former President Gbagbo, as well as the discovery of possible mass graves, must be investigated. Hundreds have been arbitrarily arrested or detained, and we have credible reports that almost 200 people may have been killed already, with dozens more likely tortured or mistreated, while others have been snatched from their homes in the middle of the night.”
7. Cutaway, Angolan delegate
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyung-wha Kang, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations:
“Between 16 and 21 December, human rights officers have substantiated allegations of 173 killings, 90 instances of torture and ill treatment, 471 arrests and detentions and 24 cases of enforced or involuntary disappearances. Unfortunately, it has been impossible to investigate all the allegations of serious human rights violations, including reports of mass graves, due to restrictions on movement by UN personnel. Indeed, the Special Representative of the Secretary General was stopped at gunpoint, as he sought to verify such allegations. ”
9. Wide shot, Human Rights Council meeting

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The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council began a special session today (23 December) on the deteriorating situation in the Ivory Coast, where disputed election results have led to violence.

World leaders are demanding that Laurent Gbagbo step aside in favour of Alassane Ouattara, whom UN members have recognised as the winner of last month's Ivorian election.

France’s Ambassador M. Jean-Baptiste Mattei condemned “the serious acts of repression made against the people who had gathered peacefully to exercise their rights.”

Ambassador Betty King from the United States (US) called for “reports of mass human rights violations and abuses” to be investigated.

UN Deputy Human Rights chief Kyung-wha Kang told delegates that UN staff have been able to confirm allegations of 173 killings and 90 cases of torture or ill treatment in Côte d'Ivoire in the past week.

"Unfortunately it has been impossible to investigate all the allegations of serious human rights violations, including reports of mass graves, due to restrictions on movement by UN personnel," Kyung-wha Kang noted.

The 14th special session of the Council was called Nigeria on behalf of the African Group and the US.

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