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STORY: UN / REFUGEES MIGRANTS DECLARATION
TRT: 3:33
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 20 SEPTEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, UN Headqarters
2. Wide shot, meeting room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Refugee protection is not a matter of generosity or a show of solidarity. It is an obligation under international law starting with the 51 Convention and encompassing many other binding instruments.”
4. Wide shot, Guterres at the meeting
5. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Nearly half of all migrants are women and girls and the global compact must be fully responsive to their needs and to their voices. We are now at a half way point towards agreeing to these Compacts. While much has been accomplished, a lot of work remains.”
6. Wide shot, applause
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“The New York Declaration resonated as a bold step forward for a world struggling to meet the challenges of large scale refugee flows and increasingly complex migratory movements. It reaffirmed a fundamental principle of refugee protection, an age-old value and now a universal, legally binding obligation. It underscored that this can only be fully realized through international cooperation.”
8. Wide shot, delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Arbour, Special Representative for International Migration, United Nations:
“Migration is here to stay, but its configuration will evolve. Demographics, climate change, opportunities offered by modern communications, changes in the nature of work, other economic factors and human aspirations for self-improvement are likely to lead to an increase to a cross-border movements in the years ahead.”
10. Wide shot, Swing speaking
11. SOUNDBITE (English) William Swing, Director-General, International Organization for Migration:
“At present, we have not only unprecedented human mobility, but unprecedented forced migration. We have unprecedented anti-migrant sentiment, unprecedented deaths along migratory pass and unprecedented – I think the Special Representative mentioned this, unprecedented decline in public confidence in the ability of the governments to manage migration and mobility.
12. Med shot, cameras
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“The process to establish the Compact really – in terms of refugee Compact means improving responses, strengthening protection and hopefully – and this is valid I guess for both Compacts, reducing the toxic, negative narrative around forced and massive population movements and human mobility.”
14. Close up, notebook
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Arbour, Special Representative for International Migration, United Nations:
“The situation in Libya and in the Mediterranean generally I think highlights the very dramatic need for considerably more coherence in the United Nations system to look at human mobility at large. The protection, that is provided for refugees has no formal counterparts when it comes to the people on the move, who in reality often find themselves in exactly same kind of terrible, unconscionable predicament.”
16. Wide shot, press stakeout
One year after world leaders adopted a New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, the United Nations Secretary-General said that “while much has been accomplished, a lot of work remains.”
One year ago, the world met in New York to underscore the need to protect millions of people fleeing conflict and persecution in their homelands. At the UN General Assembly on Wednesday (20 Sep), leaders took stock of a plan that aims to bring greater security to refugees and migrants.
Speaking at the high-level meeting on the sidelines of the General Debate, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said “refugee protection is not a matter of generosity or a show of solidarity. It is an obligation under international law starting with the 51 Convention and encompassing many other binding instruments.”
Secretary-General also said that “nearly half of all migrants are women and girls and the global compact must be fully responsive to their needs and to their voices.”
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi described the Declaration as “a bold step forward for a world struggling to meet the challenges of large scale refugee flows and increasingly complex migratory movements.”
Louise Arbour, the UN Special Representative for International Migration said “migration is here to stay, but its configuration will evolve. Demographics, climate change, opportunities offered by modern communications, changes in the nature of work, other economic factors and human aspirations for self-improvement are likely to lead to an increase to a cross-border movements in the years ahead.”
After the meeting, the High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi told the press that the process to establish the Refugee Compact “means improving responses, strengthening protection and hopefully – and this is valid I guess for both Compacts, reducing the toxic, negative narrative around forced and massive population movements and human mobility.”
By adopting the New York Declaration in September 2016, member states committed to start negotiations leading to an international conference and the adoption of a global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration in 2018; to develop guidelines on the treatment of migrants in vulnerable situations; to achieve a more equitable sharing of the burden and responsibility for hosting and supporting the world’s refugees by adopting a global compact on refugees in 2018.
