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STORY: GENEVA / IRAQ HUMAN RIGHTS
TRT: 01:42
SOURCE: UNTV CH
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 APRIL 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
25 APRIL 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Aerial shot, Palais des Nations
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kate Gilmore, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations:
“Iraqi leaders, it seems, have a long memory but short sight.”
4. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kate Gilmore, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations:
"The obscene casualty figures with which we have become perhaps far too familiar accurately reflect the loss of life, but they do not fully reflect the indignities with which the peoples of Iraq are living life on a daily basis."
6. Med shot, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kate Gilmore, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations:
"They reported, almost immediately, being detained in former prison, surrounded by tens upon tens of bodies; bodies people who had been clearly summarily executed -- they were non-combatants, this was evident, they explained to us from the nature of their dress -- these included children, and older women. These women then talked us through their experiences of sexual slavery, and we suspect at least 3,000 or more women and girls have been subjected to these practice."
8. Med shot, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Kate Gilmore, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations:
"Only by taking concrete steps that win the trust and confidence of the people of Iraq can there be peace. And those steps must turn on two key things: broadening inclusion and deepening fairness".
10. Wide shot, journalist
The United Nations (UN) Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kate Gilmore called on the leaders of Iraq and the international community to prepare for the “day after” ISIL’s defeat in the country.
In a powerful and at times emotional appeal, Gilmore told reporters in Geneva today (25 Apr) that “Iraqi leaders, it seems, have a long memory but a short sight” noting that it was time to prepare the country for a transition to peaceful coexistence rather than focusing on the divisiveness and vengeance over past wrongs.
Gilmore stressed that Iraq faces more than just military challenges and its future is not solely a matter of defeating ISIL and liberating its territories.
Since January 2014, some 18 thousand people have been killed and 36 thousand wounded. 3.2 million Iraqis are still displaced from their homes.
Gilmore said, "The obscene casualty figures with which we have become perhaps far too familiar accurately reflect the loss of life, but they do not fully reflect the indignities with which the peoples of Iraq are living life on a daily basis."
In a recent trip to the country, Gilmore visited a displaced persons camp housing approximately 17 thousand Yazidis. The Yazidi community has been particularly targeted by ISIL.
Gilmore said people she spoke to in the camp “reported, almost immediately, being detained in former prison, surrounded by tens upon tens of bodies; bodies people who had been clearly summarily executed -- they were non-combatants, this was evident, they explained to us from the nature of their dress -- these included children, and older women.” She said the women spoke of their experiences of sexual slavery and “we suspect at least 3,000 or more women and girls have been subjected to these practices."
Gilmore said, "Only by taking concrete steps that win the trust and confidence of the people of Iraq can there be peace. And those steps must turn on two key things: broadening inclusion and deepening fairness."
Gilmore also urged the international community to provide more support for the humanitarian needs, the rebuilding of essential infrastructure, and towards justice and reconciliation in Iraq.
