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UN / MINE ACTION DAY ADVANCER
STORY: UN / MINE ACTION DAY ADVANCER
TRT: 2.46
SOURCE: UNTV / UNMAS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 MARCH 2012, NEW YORK / FILE
FILE - UNMAS WESTERN SAHARA
1. Zoom out, “Danger mines” sign
2. Tilt, pile of unexploded ordnance
3. Tilt, desert field strewn with unexploded ordnance
4. Wide shot, boy walking across field with bushes and goats
5. Zoom in, partly buried landmine
UKNOWN DATE AND LOCATION
6. Various shots, mines and other unexploded ordnance in conflict areas
7. Wide shot, woman carrying child walking past bombed out building
8. Various shots, mines and other unexploded ordnance in conflict areas
9. Pan down, Afghan man with prosthetic leg walking across room
10. Med shot, amputee walking down street with crutch
11. Med shot, amputee on his motorbike
12. Wide shot, team of amputees playing soccer
15 MARCH 2012, NEW YORK
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“This Day shines a spotlight on the horrendous damage inflicted by mines. Mines render land unusable. They make roads dangerous, keeping people from school, work, clinics or the local well. They make the delivery of humanitarian assistance more difficult or even impossible. The use of mines by armed groups, militias and armies is unacceptable.”
UKNOWN DATE AND LOCATION
14. Various shots, deminer digging out landmine in rain forest
15 MARCH 2012, NEW YORK
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We want more countries to join the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention. My hope is that landmines can be cleared from the face of the earth in years, not decades.”
FILE – UNMAS – 27 JUNE 2010, MINE FIELD, BAGRAM DISTRICT, AFGHANISTAN
17. Various shots, deminer sweeping ground
UKNOWN DATE AND LOCATION
18. Med shot, deminer wiring up unexploded ordnance wired up for detonation
19. Tilt down, deminer turning detonation box on
20. Wide shot, stockpile detonation
FILE – UNMAS - 26 JUNE 2010, KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
21. Wide shot, stockpile detonation
15 MARCH 2012, NEW YORK
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Lending your leg is a symbolic gesture demonstrating solidarity with survivors of mine explosions. Rolling up a pant leg or a sleeve highlights what is at risk if we do not clear mines.”
FILE – UNMAS
23. Excerpt from 2012 UNMAS PSA for International Mine
In advance of International Landmine Awareness Day, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the global event “shines a spotlight on the horrendous damage inflicted by mines.”
This year’s observance on 4 April aims to promote adherence to important anti-mine treaties and to raise awareness of how landmines can indiscriminately kill children, farmers and everyday citizens years and sometimes decades after a conflict has ended.
Underlining how these indiscriminate killers hamper development and endanger lives, the Secretary-General said they render land unusable, make roads dangerous and keep people from school, work, clinics or the local well. They also complicate the delivery of humanitarian assistance in communities undergoing or emerging from conflict, he said, stressing that their use by armed groups, militias and armies was “unacceptable.”
He called for more countries to join the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention and expressed hope that “landmines can be cleared from the face of the earth in years, not decades.”
As part of the global “Lend Your Leg” campaign from the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, the UN Mine Action Team and the Colombian NGO Fundación Arcangeles, Ban called on private companies, celebrities and politicians to join everyday citizens around the world by rolling up their pant leg and standing with survivors of landmines on 4 April.
He said the act of “lending your leg” was a symbolic gesture demonstrating solidarity with survivors of mine explosions and urged individuals and communities around the world to call for “no more landmines.”
“Rolling up a pant leg or a sleeve highlights what is at risk if we do not clear mines,” he stressed.
In 2010 there were 4,200 victims of landmine’s devastating effects - 11 people a day.
In Colombia last year, a small group of motivated citizens rolled up their pant leg in a symbolic gesture of solidarity with landmine survivors across the globe that have lost limbs to this deadly device. This grassroots campaign to raise awareness of this ongoing humanitarian crisis soon spread via social media and gained support from celebrity endorsements, NGOs and government officials including Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos.
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