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STORY: UN / HUMAN RIGHTS IRAN
SOURCE: UNTV
TRT: 2.17
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FARSI / NATS
DATELINE: 9 NOVEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN building
9 NOVEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais
3. Med shot, reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Winner:
“We don’t agree on a military attack on Iran or even economic sanctions, because that worsens the human rights situation.”
5. Med shot, reverse view of dais
6. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Winner:
“Instead of economic sanctions we support political sanctions.”
7. Med shot, reporter
8. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Winner:
“By that we mean that those who have been involved in killings should have their visas to enter other countries revoked and if they have assets in other countries they should be frozen.”
9. Med shot, reporter
10. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Winner:
“Iran is a candidate for the Executive Board of UN Women and since they have no rivals from Asia, it will get on the Board.”
11. Med shot, reporters
12. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Winner:
“This is a mockery for the Board, from the beginning of its work.”
13. Med shot, reporter
14. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Winner:
“The life of a woman is worth half of the life of a man. If for example, my brother and I are injured, I would get half of the compensation my brother would.”
15. Wide shot, dais
FILE - 23 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
16. Wide shot, Ahmadinejad and reporter
17. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran:
“Iran is a population of seven million people and the world is a population of seven billion. How many people do these protestors represent? There’s freedom for everyone to express their views. It doesn’t bother me when people use their freedom but you must also understand that most nations in the world, most people in the world, support our ideas.”
18. Wide shot, Ahmadinejad and reporter
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) held a press conference today (9 November) at UN Headquarters, with the participation of Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, discussed the human rights situation in her country.
Ebadi said that political imprisonments have increased in Iran and the human rights situation has continued to deteriorate.
Nevertheless, she said that she does not support “a military attack on Iran or even economic sanctions” as this would worsen the human rights situation.
The Nobel Prize winner said that “instead of economic sanctions we support political sanctions,” including having human rights violators’ “visas to enter other countries revoked” as well as freezing their “assets in other countries.”
Ebadi acknowledged that Iran will likely be elected to Executive Board of the newly created UN Women agency and said that it will be a “mockery for the Board, from the beginning of its work.”
She said that according to Iranian law “the life of a woman is worth half of the life of a man.”
In September, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, responding to questions about Iran’s human rights record as well as protest in Iran and abroad, said that he believed in the “freedom for everyone to express their views” but that “most people in the world” supported the Governments ideas.
FIDH was founded in 1922 and is considered to be the first international human rights organisation. Its motto is “Peace for human rights.”
