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STORY: GENEVA/ HUMAN RIGHTS NAURU
TRT: 01:09
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
ASPECT RATIO: 16:9
DATELINE: 29 JULY 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
RECENT - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, exterior Palais des Nations
29 JULY 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Pan right, briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“We are extremely concerned about the serious allegations of violence, sexual assault, degrading treatment and self-harm contained in more than 1,000 incident reports from offshore processing centres on Nauru, many of which reportedly involved children.”
4. Med shot, table of journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“Teams from our office have witnessed many of the migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, including children, in Nauru suffering from severe mental health problems as a result of their detention.”
6. Close up, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“We call on Australia and Nauru to expeditiously end the immigration detention of children, and urge the authorities to institute human rights-compliant alternatives. We urge Nauru, as a party to the Optional Protocol on the UN Convention against Torture, to establish a national mechanism for the prevention of torture and we reiterate our offer to assist in this regard.”
8. Close up, spokesperson
9. Close up, camerawoman
More than 1,000 incidents of serious human rights violations have been reported in the treatment of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees transferred by Australia to the Pacific island of Nauru, according to the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Many of the people who are reported to have suffered these abuses, including children were transferred by Australia to Nauru more than three years ago and have been living in very difficult conditions ever since, according to OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani.
Shamdasani told reporters today (12 Aug) at a press briefing at the UN in Geneva “we are extremely concerned about the serious allegations of violence, sexual assault, degrading treatment and self-harm contained in more than 1,000 incident reports from offshore processing centres on Nauru, many of which reportedly involved children.”
The processing centres are run by private companies contracted by Australia. UN human rights experts say the extent to which these incidents have been properly investigated – either by the private companies, or by the Nauru police force, is unclear, according to Shamdasani.
She said “teams from our office have witnessed many of the migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, including children, in Nauru suffering from severe mental health problems as a result of their detention.”
OHCHR condemns the practice of offshore migrant processing along the model used in Nauru, and is calling on authorities to put in place measures that will protect migrants there.
Shamdasani called on Australia and Nauru “to expeditiously end the immigration detention of children, and urge the authorities to institute human rights-compliant alternatives. We urge Nauru, as a party to the Optional Protocol on the UN Convention against Torture, to establish a national mechanism for the prevention of torture and we reiterate our offer to assist in this regard.”