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OHCHR / PALESTINE RICHARD FALK
STORY: OHCHR / PALESTINE RICHARD FALK
TRT : 2.38
SOURCE:OHCHR
RESTRICTIONS:NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 20 MARCH 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Tracking shot, Falk walking into room
2. SOUNDBITE (English), Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Palestinian territories:
“I think the situation on the ground as far as the Palestinians are concerned has actually gotten worse. There are more settlers, there is more settlements, Jerusalem has been changed in a direction that involves making more of a Jewish city, the water continues to be diverted, Gaza in very bad shape so in all those levels, I think the situation is actually deteriorating. At the same time I feel that outside of Palestine, itself, the world understands the issues better.”
3. Close up, clasped hands
4. SOUNDBITE (English), Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Palestinian territories:
“The apartheid nature of the occupation of the West Bank in particular is premised on the notion that there is one set of rules for the Israeli settlers and another set of rules for the indigenous Palestinian population and it is discriminatory toward the Palestinians who are subject to military administration with no rights of their own as opposed to the Israeli settlers who are there unlawfully but still have the benefit of the rule of law as it is established within Israel itself.””
5. Cutaway, hands
6. SOUNDBITE (English), Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Palestinian territories:
“There is very little hope in the traditional intergovernmental diplomacy, direct negotiations through the Oslo kind of framework. I do believe there is genuine hope by reliance on what I have been calling the legitimacy war of strategy- where mobilizing civil society around principles of legality and morality and implementing those ideas with non-violent forms of pressure as in the BDS movement, that worked in relation to apartheid South Africa in the late 1980’s and 1990s.
7. Pan right, Falk walking out
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories, Richard Falk who is ending his six-year assignment as the independent expert on the human rights situation in the Palestine territories, expressed mixed reactions to the progress of the conflict in the region.
“I think the situation on the ground as far as the Palestinians are concerned has actually gotten worse. There are more settlers, there is more settlements, Jerusalem has been changed in a direction that involves making more of a Jewish city, the water continues to be diverted, Gaza in very bad shape so in all those levels, I think the situation is actually deteriorating. At the same time I feel that outside of Palestine, itself, the world understands the issues better.”
The outgoing Special Rapporteur remained optimistic that a peaceful solution between Israel and Palestine can be realized but called for a new strategy to address the impasse.
“There is very little hope in the traditional intergovernmental diplomacy, direct negotiations through the Oslo kind of framework. I do believe there is genuine hope by reliance on what I have been calling the legitimacy war of strategy- where mobilising civil society around principles of legality and morality and implementing those ideas with non-violent forms of pressure as in the BDS movement.”
Falk will present his final report to the UN Human Rights Council, on the human rights situation on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, on 24th March.
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