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STORY: UN / 2023 ANNUAL WRAP
TRT: 09:03
SOURCE: UNIFEED / UNICEF / WFP / OCHA / UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN / PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN / PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN / PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FARSI / NATS
DATELINE: FILE
FILE - UN NEPAL - 01 NOVEMBER, ANAPPURNA, NEPAL
1. Pan right, glaciers
2. Various shots, Secretary-General António Guterres with sherpas at Annapurna Base Camp
3. Aerial shot, melting glaciers
FILE - 23 NOVEMBER 2023, ANTARCTICA
4. Wide shot, zodiacs at Chile’s Frei Antarctic base
5. Med shot, Guterres and Chilean navy officer looking at glaciers
6. Wide shot, iceberg
7. Various shots, zodiacs
8. Wide shot, swimming penguins
9. Med shot, Guterres in a zodiac
FILE - 27 NOVEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
10. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We are trapped in a deadly cycle. Ice reflects the sun’s rays. As it vanishes, more heat is absorbed into the Earth’s atmosphere. That means more heating, which means more storms, floods, fires, and droughts across the globe. And more melting. Which means even more heating. At COP28, which starts later this week, leaders must break this cycle.”
FILE - 24 NOVEMBER 2023, ANTARCTICA
11. Various shots, penguins
12. Zoom out, Guterres surrounded by penguins
FILE - 29 NOVEMBER 2023, DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
13. Various shots, COP28 venue, participants
FILE - 01 DECEMBER 2023, DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
14. Tracking shot, Guterres walking through COP28 venue
15. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Your old road is rapidly aging. Do not double down on an obsolete business model. Lead the transition to renewables using the resources you have available. Make no mistake – the road to climate sustainability is also the only viable pathway to the economic sustainability of your companies in the future.”
16. Wide shot, Guterres speaking
FILE - 29 NOVEMBER 2023, DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
17. Close up, COP28 banner
FILE - 04 DECEMBER 2023, DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
18. Med shot, Senegalese hip-hop artist OMG Oumy Gueye at COP28
19. SOUNDBITE (French) OMG Oumy Gueye, Hip-Hop Artist:
“We hope to find sustainable solutions, solutions that can help each of us to have less of a negative impact on climate change in all areas, especially in the Sahel area where I live, which is the most impacted.”
FILE - 18 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
20. Various shots, United Nations General Assembly building with ASDG Summit banners
FILE - 19 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Ayisha Siddiqa, Climate Justice Advocate:
“It's very clear that the era of fossil fuels is coming to an end.”
FILE - 18 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
22. Wide shot, SDG Summit Opening Ceremony
FILE - 19 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Ayisha Siddiqa, Climate Justice Advocate:
“So, either you are on the right side of history or the wrong."
FILE - 18 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
24. Various shots, SDG Halftime show
FILE - 19 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Vishal Prasad, Campaign Director, Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC):
“We're seeing much more category four or five cyclones that used to be once in a generation kind of thing. Now they are happening almost every year and with the cyclone they wipe away decades long of the development gains, they wipe away the livelihoods of people.”
FILE - 15 DECEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
26. Various shots, Julienne Lusenge receiver Human Rights Award
27. SOUNDBITE (French) Julienne Lusenge, Human Rights Activist:
“Our organization makes a point of offering medical and psychological services and even socio-economic reintegration not only to victims of war, but also to victims of sexual violence. We are giving back human rights concretely to our brothers. The services of drinking water; by offering the services, food, the schooling of children, but also the protection of rights. The restoration of peace. Without peace, there are no rights.”
28. Various shots, awardees receiving their prize
22 DECEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
29. Various shots, Security Council vote
FILE - UNICEF - 13 OCTOBER 2023, GAZA
30. Wide shot, building collapsing after bombing
FILE - WFP - 09 OCTOBER 2023, GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE
31. Wide shot, explosions at night
FILE - 29 NOVEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
32. Wide shot, Security Council
33. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Let me put it plainly: Civilians – including United Nations personnel – must be protected. Civilian objects – including hospitals – must be protected. UN facilities must not be hit. International humanitarian law must be respected by all parties to the conflict at all times.”
FILE - WFP - 07 DECEMBER 2023, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA, PALESTINE
34. Various shots, aftermath of bombing of home where 15 members of the Rabie family were killed
FILE - 27 NOVEMBER 2023, RAFAH, GAZA
35. SOUNDBITE (English) James Elder, UNICEF Spokesperson:
"Emergency wards with boys and girls, shrapnel wounds, horrendous burns.”
FILE - UNICEF - 25 NOVEMBER 2023 - NASSER HOSPITAL, KHAN YOUNIS, SOUTHERN GAZA
36. Med shot, injured child in bus waiting to be admitted in hospital
FILE - 27 NOVEMBER 2023, RAFAH, GAZA
37. SOUNDBITE (English) James Elder, UNICEF Spokesperson:
“So, you've got children in car parks and gardens, on beds everywhere. Then, of course, you've got, you know, hundreds of thousands of children who are not in school, who are in very overcrowded camps, who are cold. It's starting to rain, who do not have enough food, who do not have enough water, who are now at risk of a disease outbreak. It's a horrendous situation."
FILE – OCHA - 10 OCTOBER 2023, ZINDAJAN DISTRICT, AFGHANISTAN
38. Zoom in, door still standing amid destruction
FILE - OCHA - 11 OCTOBER, CHAHAK VILLAGE, ENJIL DISTRICT, AFGHANISTAN
39. Wide shot, people digging through rubble
40. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Tawakal from Chahak Village, Enjil District:
“Here is all I had. I had rice, wheat, I had food, everything I had is buried under the rubble and I don't have food for my kids. I have no mattresses or carpets for my kids to sit and eat. Everything we had is buried here.”
FILE - UNHCR - 08 MARCH 2023, JABLEH, SYRIA
41. Various shots, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi walks though rubble with UNCHR staff
42. Wide shot, damaged building
43. Wide shot, damaged car
44. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“As you can see from this destruction, it will take a long time to help these people go back to normal lives. And that effort in a country like Syria that has been so impacted by many years of crisis can only be sustained if international assistance continues to flow.”
FILE - UNHCR - 12 MARCH 2023, HATAY, TÜRKIYE
45. Travelling shot, damaged buildings
46. Various shots, cars under rubble
47. Wide shot, destroyed buildings
FILE - OCHA - 22 OCTOBER 2023, DERNA, LIBYA
48. Various shots, flood destruction
FILE - UNHCR - 16 SEPTEMBER 2023, DERNA LIBYA
49. SOUNDBITE (English) Rana Ksaifi, Head of Protection, Libya, UNHCR:
“As you can see from the surroundings behind me, the situation is horrific. I cannot explain what I saw on the way coming to Derna. I saw roads split in half. I saw massive rocks that have been moved over from neighbouring mountains to the coastal areas. Homes have been demolished, damaged, submerged underwater. Families have lost a very big number of their loved ones. Many are still missing. Some have been split and others have been displaced.”
FILE - OCHA - 09 JUNE 2023, BILOZERKA, UKRAINE
50. Wide shot, OCHA Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine Denise Brown walking with humanitarian staff
51. Pan left, flooded houses
52. SOUNDBITE (English) Denise Brown, Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, OCHA:
“This community has been hit literally by shelling. And now by the floods caused by the destruction of the dam, which is caused by the war. It is an intolerable level of suffering. But we're here to support.”
FILE - WFP - 5-8 JULY 2023, ADRÉ, CHAD
53. Various shots, Sudanese refugees arriving with their belongings to Adré, a small town just across the border from Sudan
54. Various shots, 23-year-old Huda Humza prepares a meal outside their makeshift tent
55. SOUNDBITE (English) Huda Humza, Sudanese Refugee:
“In the morning they attacked us, and during the attack in the roads they took everything from us, money, food clothes and they even killed relatives and friends. It was a difficult time.”
56. Wide shot, displaced people with a donkey carrying belongings
The work of the United Nations remained vital in 2023, a year that was marked by humanitarian crises fuelled by conflicts, natural disasters and the devastating effects of climate change.
Ahead of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) which took place in Dubai in December, Secretary-General António Guterres visited Nepal and Antarctica to highlight the effects of global warming on rapidly melting glaciers and continental ice shelves.
Speaking to reporters in New York before travelling to Dubai, Guterres said, “we are trapped in a deadly cycle. Ice reflects the sun’s rays. As it vanishes, more heat is absorbed into the Earth’s atmosphere. That means more heating, which means more storms, floods, fires, and droughts across the globe. And more melting. Which means even more heating.”
At COP28, he said, “leaders must break this cycle.”
The average thickness of the world’s glaciers has plummeted by almost 30 metres since 1970, and irreversible changes in the global cryosphere will affect well over a billion people who rely on water from snow and glacier melt, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Antarctic sea ice is at an all-time low. New figures show that this September, it was 1.5 million square kilometres smaller than the average for the time of year, an area roughly the size of Portugal, Spain, France and Germany combined.
Speaking at COP28’s World Climate Action Summit, the Secretary-General addressed business leaders directly and said, “your old road is rapidly aging. Do not double down on an obsolete business model. Lead the transition to renewables using the resources you have available. Make no mistake – the road to climate sustainability is also the only viable pathway to the economic sustainability of your companies in the future.”
Young advocates showcased the devastating impacts of climate upheaval on their communities at COP28. Among them, was young Senegalese singer and rapper Oumy Gueye, who goes by OMG and has been collaborating with UN humanitarian affairs coordination office OCHA to advocate for humanitarian causes in the Sahel – one of the world’s fastest-growing humanitarian emergencies.
OMG said, “we hope to find sustainable solutions, solutions that can help each of us to have less of a negative impact on climate change in all areas, especially in the Sahel area where I live, which is the most impacted.”
COP28 closed with an agreement that signals the “beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era by laying the ground for a swift, just and equitable transition, underpinned by deep emissions cuts and scaled-up finance.
In September, kicking off the High-level Week of the General Assembly in New York, the 2023 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit marked the half-way point to the deadline set for achieving the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs.
Young people, who continue to be disproportionately affected by current global crises, had their voices heard during the Summit.
Ayisha Siddiqa, a Pakistani American climate justice advocate said, “it's very clear that the era of fossil fuels is coming to an end,” adding, “either you are on the right side of history or the wrong."
Vishal Prasad, representing the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC) said, “we're seeing much more category four or five cyclones that used to be once in a generation kind of thing. Now they are happening almost every year and with the cyclone they wipe away decades long of the development gains, they wipe away the livelihoods of people.”
In December, the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights was officially presented at the General Assembly to five individuals and organizations in recognition of outstanding achievement in human rights.
The Prize was established by the General Assembly in 1966 and was awarded for the first time on 10 December 1968, the twentieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The winners of the prestigious Prize for 2023 included Julienne Lusenge, of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), for her work advocating for survivors of wartime sexual violence.
Accepting the award, Lusenge said, “our organization makes a point of offering medical and psychological services and even socio-economic reintegration not only to victims of war, but also to victims of sexual violence.”
She stressed the need for “the restoration of peace” in the DRC and said, “without peace, there are no rights.”
The adoption of a humanitarian resolution on 22 December by the Security Council offered a glimmer of hope in the Gaza conflict. The resolution, adopted with 13 votes in favour, and the United States and Russia abstaining, among other things demands immediate, safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance at scale directly to the Palestinian civilian population throughout the Gaza Strip.
Israeli bombardments from air, land, and sea across Gaza, following the 7 October massacre, have brought on an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned of looming famine, as almost all Gazans surveyed are frequently without food.
Gaza is already experiencing soaring rates of infectious diseases. Over 100,000 cases of diarrhoea have been reported since mid-October. Half of these are among young children under the age of 5 years, case numbers that are 25 times what was reported before the conflict.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), only 9 out of 36 health facilities are partially functional for the whole of Gaza. All of these in the south. There are no functional hospitals left in the north. These hospitals are still sheltering thousands of displaced people.
At least 20,000 people are estimated to have died from the bombardments.
Addressing the Council in November, Guterres said, “civilians – including United Nations personnel – must be protected. Civilian objects – including hospitals – must be protected. UN facilities must not be hit. International humanitarian law must be respected by all parties to the conflict at all times.”
Reporting from Gaza, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder spoke of boys and girls with “shrapnel wounds, horrendous burns,” in hospital emergency wards.
Elder said, “you've got children in car parks and gardens, on beds everywhere. Then, of course, you've got, you know, hundreds of thousands of children who are not in school, who are in very overcrowded camps, who are cold. It's starting to rain, who do not have enough food, who do not have enough water, who are now at risk of a disease outbreak. It's a horrendous situation."
In October, Afghanistan was hit with of a series of devastating earthquakes that flattened entire villages in the west of the country and affected nearly 160,000 people who need urgent assistance to survive winter.
At least 1,400 people died, and many more were injured. Over 20,000 homes were destroyed and reduced to rubble.
The earthquakes struck already vulnerable communities, barely able to eke out a living on small plots of land and a few livestock, further deepening their misery and ability to support themselves.
Digging in the rubble, Tawakal, a villager from Chahak, in the Enjil District in Afghanistan’s west, said, “here is all I had. I had rice, wheat, I had food, everything I had is buried under the rubble and I don't have food for my kids. I have no mattresses or carpets for my kids to sit and eat. Everything we had is buried here.”
On 6 February a 7.8 earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria, killing close to 60,000 people.
Visiting Jableh, in Syria, the High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi said, “as you can see from this destruction, it will take a long time to help these people go back to normal lives. And that effort in a country like Syria that has been so impacted by many years of crisis can only be sustained if international assistance continues to flow.”
In September two dams collapsed upstream of the coastal city of Derna, in Libya, killing and displacing thousands
Rana Ksaifi, from the UN Refugee Agency said “the situation is horrific. I cannot explain what I saw on the way coming to Derna. I saw roads split in half. I saw massive rocks that have been moved over from neighbouring mountains to the coastal areas. Homes have been demolished, damaged, submerged underwater. Families have lost a very big number of their loved ones. Many are still missing. Some have been split and others have been displaced.”
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), at least 2,200 people were forced from their homes in areas of Khersonska oblast under Ukrainian control, when the Kakhovka Dam was breached in June, causing extensive flooding downstream.
Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine Denise Brown visited Bilozerka, where the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) delivered 5 trucks of aid to one of communities worst affected by the floods.
Brown said, “this community has been hit literally by shelling. And now by the floods caused by the destruction of the dam, which is caused by the war. It is an intolerable level of suffering. But we're here to support.”
Refugees continued pouring into Chad, as they escaped conflict in Sudan.
Arriving in Adré, a small town just across the border from Sudan, 23-year-old Huda Humza said, “in the morning they attacked us, and during the attack in the roads they took everything from us, money, food clothes and they even killed relatives and friends. It was a difficult time.”
According to UNHCR, forced displacement within Sudan and into neighbouring countries has continued to increase since an armed conflict erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in mid-April 2023.
The current fighting has already displaced over 800,000 people inside Sudan. In addition, over 220,000 refugees and refugee returnees have left Sudan.
