CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC/ HUMAN RIGHTS AID

A United Nations human rights expert called for urgent protection and increased assistance to the growing number of persons displaced by violence in the Central African Republic. FILE

 

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:30
• Production Date: 8 January 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR; WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
• MAMS Id: U140108b

Description

STORY: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC/ HUMAN RIGHTS AID
TRT: 1:30
SOURCE: WFP/UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: FILE

Shotlist

WFP -24 DECEMBER 2013, BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (CAR)

1. Various shots, displaced people gathered in a makeshift camp at Bangui Airport

UNHCR - 18- 19 DECEMBER 2013, BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

2. Various shots, displaced population
3. People walking in front of plane

UNHCR - 22 DECEMBER 2013, BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

4. Various shots, children and women at the camp

WFP -24 DECEMBER 2013, BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (CAR)

5. Various shots, displaced people living in compound at Eglise Castors cooking WFP food

6. Various shots, children eating

UNHCR- 18- 19 DECEMBER 2013, BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

7. Various shots of Bangui town
8. Various shots of children sleeping in tent

Storyline

A United Nations human rights expert today (8 Jan) called for urgent protection and increased assistance to the growing number of persons displaced by violence in the Central African Republic.

Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons Chaloka Beyani said in a statement that the number of displaced persons has “increased dramatically” over the past few weeks and immediate access by humanitarian agencies, including those sheltering in the airport in Bangui, “must be granted without delay.”

The UN expert specifically noted the need to strengthen the international community’s response to protect and assist those fleeing the violence, especially women, children, and people with disabilities.

Nearly one million people have been internally displaced in the country, according to the latest figures from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), nearly half of them from the capital of Bangui.

The World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Tuesday it was resuming food aid for some 100,000 displaced people in the capital for the first time in nearly three weeks since deliveries were suspended after machete-wielding men stormed the distribution site and food was stolen.

Thousands of people are estimated to have been killed, nearly 1 million driven from their homes, and 2.2 million, about half the population, need humanitarian aid in the conflict that erupted when mainly Muslim Séléka rebels launched attacks a year ago and forced President François Bozizé to flee in March.