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STORY: UN / UKRAINE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
TRT: 02:34
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / UKRAINIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 22 FEBRUARY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
22 FEBRUARY 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Trusteeship Council Chamber
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dmytro Kuleba, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ukraine:
“Russia's full scale invasion of my country caused the worst human crisis in Europe since World War Two. Russia has committed all kinds of crimes against the Ukrainian people for the past nine years, violating every bit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Forcible deportation filtration camps, arbitrary detentions enforced disappearances, torture, summary executions, conflict related sexual violence, attacks on civilians, and critical infrastructure with missiles and drones. This is not a full list of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by the Russian Federation.”
5. Wide shot, Trusteeship Council Chamber
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dmytro Kuleba, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ukraine:
“A recent report by Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab uncovers a petrifying system of camps and facilities used by Russia to deport Ukrainian children, with the aim of making Russians out of them. According to the report's findings, this network includes at least 43 facilities that stretch from one end of Russia to the other. 32 of them are used for so-called political re-education, and all levels of Russian government are involved in this genocide. This horror must stop and those responsible must be held fully accountable.”
7. Wide shot, Trusteeship Council Chamber
8. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Olena Zelenska, First Lady, Ukraine:
“I think you will agree is that all of us, regardless of country or nationality, have the right not to be killed in our own homes. However, Ukrainians have been killed in front of the whole world for already a year now. In their own cities, villages, apartments, hospitals, theatres. That is why we apply another inalienable human right. The right to self-defence.”
9. Wide shot, Trusteeship Council Chamber
10. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Olena Zelenska, First Lady, Ukraine:
“If genocide is committed against one nation, no nation can live in peace. The key word here is genocide. Human rights are like air. They have no borders. Either we all have them, or we have none.”
11. Wide shot, Trusteeship Council Chamber
Ukraine’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba, today (22 Feb) said Russia “has committed all kinds of crimes against the Ukrainian people for the past nine years, violating every bit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
Speaking at a High-Level Event convened by the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations, Kuleba said these crimes include “forcible deportation filtration camps, arbitrary detentions enforced disappearances, torture, summary executions, conflict related sexual violence, attacks on civilians, and critical infrastructure with missiles and drones.”
The Foreign Minister said a report by Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab “uncovers a petrifying system of camps and facilities used by Russia to deport Ukrainian children, with the aim of making Russians out of them.”
According to the report's findings, the said, “this network includes at least 43 facilities that stretch from one end of Russia to the other. 32 of them are used for so-called political re-education, and all levels of Russian government are involved in this genocide.”
He said, “this horror must stop and those responsible must be held fully accountable.”
In a recorded message, Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska said, “regardless of country or nationality, have the right not to be killed in our own homes. However, Ukrainians have been killed in front of the whole world for already a year now. In their own cities, villages, apartments, hospitals, theatres.”
That is why, Zelenska said, Ukraine applies “another inalienable human right. The right to self-defence.”
Ukraine’s First Lady said, “if genocide is committed against one nation, no nation can live in peace. The key word here is genocide. Human rights are like air. They have no borders. Either we all have them, or we have none.”
According to the event’s concept note, the aim is “to contribute to victims’ right to truth and accountability, as well as to deter future violations of international human rights, humanitarian and criminal law in the context of the continuing war of Russia against Ukraine.”
