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STORY: UN / MANDELA DAY
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 18 JULY 2018, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
18 JULY 2018, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, meeting room
3. Wide shot, dais
4. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“He stands today as a beacon for universal values, peace, forgiveness, humility, integrity, passion, respect and service. Madiba showed us that these are not just words or vague ideals, but concrete actions that we can all take. We can all be humble and respectful, we can all forgive, we can all work to make the world more peaceful. Each year, on this day, we focus on Madiba’s legacy, especially his call for solidarity and service.”
5. Pan right, meeting room
6. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“It was this sense of duty to others that made Nelson Mandela willing to risk his life for justice. He faced his oppressors in court, knowing they had the power of life and death, and he refused to back down. His commitment to equality saw him jailed. But it sustained him in his imprisonment. And it brought him freedom and made him the legitimate democratically elected President of his country and of his people.”
7. Med shot, participants
8. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We have come a long way, but we still have a long way to go. Fortunately, we have now a roadmap – the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. At its heart is a promise to end all forms of poverty and leave no one behind. To quote Nelson Mandela: ‘Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life. While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.’”
9. Wide shot, actor Forest Whitaker walks up to podium
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Forest Whitaker, SDG Advocate, UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation:
“His capacity to confront one’s enemies without hatred is what makes Mandela’s life a true model of humanity, on par with his fellow followers of non-violence, Ghandi and Martin Luther King. He understood that peace starts from within. And if you want peace, you have to reconcile with yourself first and it is through that education that you can know and change the world.”
1. Wide shot, Whitaker walks away from podium
At an event convened to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s centenary, Secretary-General António Guterres today (18 Jul) said the South African civil rights leader “stands today as a beacon for universal values, peace, forgiveness, humility, integrity, passion, respect and service.”
Guterres said Madiba, as Mandela is popularly known, “showed us that these are not just words or vague ideals, but concrete actions that we can all take.”
He said “we can all be humble and respectful, we can all forgive, we can all work to make the world more peaceful. Each year, on this day, we focus on Madiba’s legacy, especially his call for solidarity and service.”
The Secretary-General, who had met Mandela several times, said “it was this sense of duty to others that made Nelson Mandela willing to risk his life for justice. He faced his oppressors in court, knowing they had the power of life and death, and he refused to back down. His commitment to equality saw him jailed. But it sustained him in his imprisonment. And it brought him freedom and made him the legitimate democratically elected President of his country and of his people.”
Guterres said the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development promises “to end all forms of poverty and leave no one behind” and quoting Mandela said, “overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life. While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.’”
Also addressing the event, actor and activist Forest Whitaker said, “his capacity to confront one’s enemies without hatred is what makes Mandela’s life a true model of humanity, on par with his fellow followers of non-violence, Ghandi and Martin Luther King.”
Whitaker, who is an advocate for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as a UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation, said Mandel “understood that peace starts from within. And if you want peace, you have to reconcile with yourself first and it is through that education that you can know and change the world.”
Mandela, who died in 2013, was the first democratically-elected president of South Africa and the country’s first black head of State. He had been in prison for 27 years on charges of sabotage before being released and eventually elected president.
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