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STORY: UN / END OF CHILDHOOD REPORT
TRT: 02:08
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 31 MAY 2017, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
31 MAY 2017, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, presser
3. Wide shot, reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Carolyn Miles, President and CEO, Save the Children:
“Our analysis and our end of childhood index reveal that childhood is, maybe not surprisingly, most intact in Scandinavian and European countries, and most threatened in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
5. Med shot, reporters
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Carolyn Miles, President and CEO, Save the Children:
“16,000 children die before reaching their fifth birthday. So, that’s every day, 16,000 children around the world. And that’s from preventable and treatable causes. 156 million children under the age of five will be stunted because of malnutrition. And many of us know that stunting is not just a physical affliction, but it’s a mental affliction. It really impacts these kids for their entire lives.”
7. Wide shot, reporters
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Carolyn Miles, President and CEO, Save the Children:
“We are calling on governments to prioritize programmes for children; education, health, protection, making sure that every child has those basic rights. And we are calling on the public as well. We want the public to take advantage of the ability to speak out on International Children’s Day.”
9. Wide shot, reporters
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Marta Santos Pais, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children:
“One very important aspect in this report is how frequent violence shapes the lives of children, in so many aspects including putting them out of school or forcing girls to get married. And I think I see this every day when I go around the world and meet so many, so many, girls and boys. They always define their lives by two words, systematically whatever the region or development of the country may be, fear and pain. And I don’t think we can accept life to be defined by those by those very sad words.”
11. Wide shot, reporters
A new report by the Save the Children Fund on key factors ending childhood around the world and how to best keep childhood intact reveals that childhood is, “most intact in Scandinavian and European countries, and most threatened in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
The President and CEO of Save the Children, Carolyn Miles, told reporters today (31 May) in New York that every day “16,000 children die before reaching their fifth birthday” from preventable and treatable causes.
Another key finding of the report, according to Miles, is that “156 million children under the age of five will be stunted because of malnutrition. And many of us know that stunting is not just a physical affliction, but it’s a mental affliction. It really impacts these kids for their entire lives.”
Miles said “we are calling on governments to prioritize programmes for children; education, health, protection, making sure that every child has those basic rights. And we are calling on the public as well. We want the public to take advantage of the ability to speak out on International Children’s Day.”
Also talking to reporters, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative of the on Violence against Children, Marta Santos Pais, said “One very important aspect in this report is how frequent violence shapes the lives of children, in so many aspects including putting them out of school or forcing girls to get married. And I think I see this every day when I go around the world and meet so many, so many, girls and boys. They always define their lives by two words, systematically whatever the region or development of the country may be, fear and pain. And I don’t think we can accept life to be defined by those by those very sad words.”
