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STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / GRANDI WRAP
TRT: 03:05
SOURCE: UNHCR / UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 18 JUNE 2017, BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN / 17 JUNE 2017, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
UNHCR - 18 JUNE 2017, BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, women in new protection of civilians site
2. Close up, woman
3. Med shot, women waiting
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees:
“We are here in a location of internally displaced people. There’s almost two million of them in South Sudan. They are part of the more than 40 million displaced people worldwide, who are part of the almost 66 million people forcibly displaced in the world.”
5. Pan left, burnt out vehicles
6. Aerial shot, Protection of Civilian (POC) site
7. Wide shot, displaced in the site
8. Med shot, people walking in the POC site
9. Various shots, Grandi talking to a woman at the new site
10. Med shot, women with their basic kits
11. Close up, Kitchen utensils
12. Wide shot, women and children with solar lamps and buckets
13. Close up, solar lamp
14. Wide shot, people at the POC Site
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees:
“We need to become able to make peace again. Wherever I am, in Aleppo just months ago, here in South Sudan, in Somalia last year, in Colombia last summer, this is the cry of people. We want peace.”
16. Wide shot, Grandi inspecting new shelters
17. Various shots, displaced
UNHCR - 17 JUNE 2017, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
18. Tilt down, POC 3 site
19. Med shot, displaced building a house
20. Close up, boy tying-up posts
21. Wide shot, Grandi walking through the POC
22. Various shots, High Commissioner talking to IDPs
23. Wide shot, grandmother and child
24. Tilt up, from baby to grandmother
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I made it a point to come here during the week of World Refugee Day, because I do think that this refugee crisis is the fastest moving of all the many refugee crisis in the world today.”
26. Med shot, women talking together at POC site
27. Close up, woman’s face with marking
UNMISS - 17 JUNE 2017, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
28. Wide shot, Grandi and UNMISS SRSG standing in POC
29. Med shot, Grandi speaking with UNHCR ground staff
30. Pan right, Grandi and UNMISS SRSG walking into UNHCR receiving center
31. Various shots, Grandi interacting with IDPs
32. Wide shot, Grandi walking through POC with UNHCR staff
The search for security is driving hundreds of thousands of civilians in South Sudan to flee their homes. The UN refugee chief, Filippo Grandi, met families sheltering at a safer site with the aid of UNHCR and the government.
These are faces of displacement, families, women alone, the disabled, and many children.
South Sudan is now the fastest-growing displacement crisis in the world.
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees:
“We are here in a location of internally displaced people. There’s almost two million of them in South Sudan. They are part of the more than 40 million displaced people worldwide, who are part of the almost 66 million people forcibly displaced in the world.”
The remnants of the civil war dot the landscape, a testimony to the fear instilled in the people.
Protection sites like this across the country shelter hundreds of thousands, but most of the displaced live without protection.
UNHCR is working with the government to create safer places.
The people get a basic assistance kit and shelter.
What drives most people to flee is the search for security.
Displacement is at an all-time high, for the third year in a row.
The solution lies in preventing or ending conflicts, says the High Commissioner.
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees:
“We need to become able to make peace again. Wherever I am, in Aleppo just months ago, here in South Sudan, in Somalia last year, in Colombia last summer, this is the cry of people. We want peace.”
On Saturday, Grandi visited this Protection of Civilians site near the South Sudanese capital, Juba.
It shelters over 30,000 people.
In 2013, the promise of the world’s youngest nation faded as millions were forced to flee.
The continued fighting between armed groups threatens much of the population, who now face drought and famine.
The High Commissioner for Refugee, Filippo Grandi met with a group of women who walked a week to reach this site.
At the end of 2017, it was estimated that over 1.9 million South Sudanese were displaced within the country. Some can see their homes, but insecurity keeps them away.
Another 1.9 million have sought safety in the neighbouring countries.
The crisis is severely underfunded and humanitarian agencies struggles to provide basic assistance.
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I made it a point to come here during the week of World Refugee Day, because I do think that this refugee crisis is the fastest moving of all the many refugee crisis in the world today.”
The High Commissioner was escorted by the SRSG for UNMISS David Shearer on his visit to the POC. They walked about to see the conditions and stopped in to talk with one of the IDP families.
The Commissioner is heading to the Uganda Solidarity Summit on Refugees in Kampala, Uganda this week on 22 June, where he plans to appeal for more aid for South Sudanese refugees and IDP’s.
