UN / MALALA PHOTO-OPS

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban for attending classes, today addressed hundreds of young people at the United Nations, urging them to use education as a weapon against extremism. UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:21
• Production Date: 12 July 2013
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: POLITICAL CONDITIONS; EDUCATION; TERRORISM; YOUTH
• Geographic Subject: PAKISTAN
• MAMS Id: U130712a

Description

STORY: UN / MALALA PHOTO-OPS
TRT: 1.21
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 12 JULY 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

12 JULY 2013, NEW YORK CITY

2. Close up, cameras
3. Pan right, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Malala Yousafzai walk in and pose for photographers
4. Close up, cameras
5. Wide shot, Ban, Yousafzai, Yoo Soon-taek, former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and others pose for photographers
6. Close up, cameras
7. SOUNDUP (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“I am going to give you the Charter of the United Nations. Normally this Charter of the United Nations, leather-bound, is reserved for heads of state, normally, but I am giving it to you as a gift for your birthday.”
8. Various shots, cameras
9. Wide shot, Ban, Yousafzai, Brown and General Assembly President Vuk Jeremić pose for photographers
10. Pan left, Ban shakes hands with official and walks to conference table.

Storyline

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban for attending classes, today (12 July) visited the United Nations, meeting officials before addressing a youth gathering a t the Trusteeship Council.

Yousafzai first visited Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s office, where she met the Secretary-General and his wife, Yoo Soon-taek, and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown.

The Secretary-General has dubbed today –Yousafzai’s 16th birthday – ‘Malala Day’ in honour of her heroic stand to ensure education for all.

He presented Yousafzai a leather-bound copy of the United Nations Charter, which he said was normally “reserved for heads of state” as a gift for her birthday.

Later, Yousafzai met with General Assembly President Vuk Jeremić.

Globally, the number of children out of school has fallen from 60 million in 2008 to 57 million in 2011. However, 28 million children out of school live in the world’s conflict zones, and more than half of those are women and girls.