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STORY: UN / 7 BILLION
TRT: 1.44
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 31 OCTOBER 2011, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
31 OCTOBER 2011, NEW YORK CITY
2. Zoom out, dais
3. Wide shot, over-the-shoulder view of the audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry; lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die everyday in childbirth and children die every day from drinking dirty water. Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe. What kind of world has baby seven billion been born into?”
5. Wide shot, audience applause
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“The United Nations has made sustainable development its number one priority. This is the way forward to address all the issues: population, climate change, water scarcity, food security, human rights and gender empowerment - particularly providing decent jobs for youth and many people – and global health issues. All these are all interlinked.”
7. Close up, journalist
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, President of the 66th Session of the General Assembly:
“We know our world is a changing place. The reality of 7 billion people on our planet underscores our collective obligation to secure fundamental justice, equity and dignity for all.”
9. Close up, journalist
10. Med shot, end of conference
As the world population is estimated to have reached 7 billion today (31 October), Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that our world “is one of terrible contradictions” and called for measures that may determine whether the future will be healthy, sustainable and prosperous or marked by inequalities, environmental decline and economic setbacks.
Ban told reporters at UN Headquarters that while a few people live “lavish lifestyles” too many others live in property and that billions are spent on weapons “to kill people instead of keeping them safe.”
He asked: “What kind of world has baby seven billion been born into?”
The Secretary General noted the United Nations has made sustainable development “its number one priority” as it can help address the “interlinked” issues of population, climate change, water scarcity, food security, human rights, gender empowerment and global health issues.
Ban also noted that the world’s population reached 6 billion in 1998, only 13 years ago, and it is expected to grow to 9 billion by the middle of this century, or even a few years earlier – by 2043.
The State of World Population 2011 released last week noted that the record population size can be viewed in many ways as a success for humanity because it means people are living longer and more children are surviving worldwide. But not everyone has benefited from this achievement or the higher quality of life that this implies.
General Assembly President Nassir Abdulaziz told the press conference that “the reality of 7 billion people on our planet underscores our collective obligation to secure fundamental justice, equity and dignity for all.”
The report, published by the United Nations Population Fund, states that great disparities exist among and within countries and in rights and opportunities between men and women, girls and boys, as evidenced by the fact that 215 million women of child-bearing age in developing countries lack access to voluntary family planning, while millions of adolescent girls and boys there have little access to sex education and information on how to prevent pregnancies or protect themselves from HIV.
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