HONDURAS / GRANDI PROTECTION
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STORY: HONDURAS / GRANDI PROTECTION
TRT: 02:59
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30, 31 AUGUST 2017, TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS / 23 AUGUST 2017, EL CEIBO, GUATEMALA / 27 AUGUST 2017, SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR / 22 AUGUST 2017, PETEN, GUATEMALA / 23 AUGUST 2017, TENOSIQUE, MEXICO
23 AUGUST 2017, EL CEIBO, GUATEMALA
1. Wide shot, young man migrating across Guatemalan border into Mexico
2. Med shot, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi walking up the “paso ciego” leading from Guatemala into Mexico
31 AUGUST 2017, TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I was struck by one feeling of the people, and I spoke to many – in Mexico, in Guatemala, in Salvador, in Honduras – one strong feeling: fear. This is fear of a very particular nature. It’s fear of these horrible gangs that terrorize, kill, maim, intimidate, rape, forcibly recruit. And this fear – people carry the fear with them across borders because, in fact, those gangs have ramifications in the entire region. So, responding with adequate protection measures is a challenge. First of all, it is dangerous. And then it is very complex because you need to build protection measures that are adapted to this phenomenon.”
27 AUGUST 2017, SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR
4. Various shots, downtown San Salvador
30 AUGUST 2017, TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS
5. Wide shot, colonia in San Salvador
6. Med shot, Grandi greets an affiliate of Caritas, implementing partner for UNHCR in the neighborhoods of San Salvador and elsewhere in El Salvador
7. Various shots, community workers
31 AUGUST 2017, TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I think UNHCR’s role is to ensure that people who have lost protection – and particularly the protection of the state – can be put under other protection umbrellas: other states, if they become refugees, civil society, the churches. But it is our responsibility also to work with states to restore that protection, especially as here in Honduras, or in El Salvador, in the case of internally displaced people that remain in their country.”
22 AUGUST 2017, PETEN, GUATEMALA
9. Med shot, Grandi and local priest looking at a map showing the different services available to refugees and migrant seekers on their route northward
31 AUGUST 2017, TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“At the moment, it is mostly civil society that helps the victims on the ground. But the government is coming in. And that is indispensable. Because in the end, people have to have confidence in their own authorities to feel protected.”
22 AUGUST 2017, PETEN, GUATEMALA
11. Various shots, Grandi at the Casa del Migrant Betania
23 AUGUST 2017, TENOSIQUE, MEXICO
12. Various shots, city views from above
31 AUGUST 2017, TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS
13. Various shots, priest speaking
An estimated 450,000 people entered Mexico irregularly last year, most of them from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. UNHCR considers that many of these persons are refugees, likely seeking safety from the rising power and violence of gangs in their home countries.
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I was struck by one feeling of the people, and I spoke to many – in Mexico, in Guatemala, in Salvador, in Honduras – one strong feeling: fear. This is fear of a very particular nature. It’s fear of these horrible gangs that terrorize, kill, maim, intimidate, rape, forcibly recruit. And this fear – people carry the fear with them across borders because, in fact, those gangs have ramifications in the entire region. So, responding with adequate protection measures is a challenge. First of all, it is dangerous. And then it is very complex because you need to build protection measures that are adapted to this phenomenon.”
While traditionally the asylum seekers among them tend to do make their claims in the United States and Canada, now Mexico is increasingly seeing its numbers of asylum seekers rise, with a 156 percent increase from 2015 to 2016.
Even Guatemala – both a transit country and a country from which many leave to seek safety – is receiving its own, increasing numbers of asylum seekers from Honduras and El Salvador.
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I think UNHCR’s role is to ensure that people who have lost protection – and particularly the protection of the state – can be put under other protection umbrellas: other states, if they become refugees, civil society, the churches. But it is our responsibility also to work with states to restore that protection, especially as here in Honduras, or in El Salvador, in the case of internally displaced people that remain in their country.”
Honduras, a country of only nine million, registered more than 5,000 murders in both 2015 and 2016 as it continues to battle the rise of transnational gangs which terrorize local communities, extorting from locals, recruiting youth, and inflicting sexual abuse and terror on locals.
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“At the moment, it is mostly civil society that helps the victims on the ground. But the government is coming in. And that is indispensable. Because in the end, people have to have confidence in their own authorities to feel protected.”
UNHCR, in concert with its partner CARITAS, works in both rural and urban areas to help internationally displaced people, improve data collection on displacement and help with protection and humanitarian assistance in the midst of this crisis.