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STORY: LIBERIA / BACHELET WRAP
TRT: 2.24
SOURCE: UNMIL
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 06, 07 MARCH 2011, MONROVIA, LIBERIA
07 MARCH 2011, MONROVIA, LIBERIA
1. Med shot, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf places a brooch on Michelle Bachelet and embraces her
2. Med shot, the traditional council of Liberia gowns Michelle Bachelet
3. Wide shot, photo-op with the traditional council
4. Med shot, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia and Michelle Bachelet walking into the lobby for the press conference
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director, UN Women:
“We understand education is fundamental in all directions of the opportunities that a child, girl, a young girl, a woman will have in life. So, for us it is a very essential issue and that is linked very directly to the full priorities for our agency. The first priority is to enhance the voices and leadership and political participation of women. The second is economic empowerment, we believe that women’s rights will be only possible if we have women empowered in terms of having access to jobs, and of course a better a job will be linked to a better location. The third is women at the heart of peace and security and I will be working very hard in all these areas. And the fourth is on ending violence against women.”
07 MARCH 2011, TOTOTA PEACE HUT, BONG COUNTY, LIBERIA
6. Med shot, Bachelet hugs three UN female peace keepers outside the peace hut
7. Close up, UN Secretary-General Deputy Representative to Liberia Mustapha Soumare
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director, UN Women:
“I just want to say that I am very happy be here with you. I am very happy because we were part of this peace hut, the organization the UN Women – you call it as UNIFEM, they are building this and they are going to build eight others in the country. And we have seen your experience, we know it works and it works for justice, access to justice but also literacy and other issues.”
06 MARCH 2011, MONROVIA, LIBERIA
9. Wide shot, banner, “the president of the Republic of Liberia Madame Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Ministry of Gender and Development and the women of Liberia welcome Madame Michelle Bachelet”
10. Med shot, Madame Michelle Bachelet disembarks from a UN vehicle and is greeted by a child with flowers
11. Med shot, Michelle Bachelet and Liberia’s Culture Ambassador, Julie Endee dance with the Crusader for Peace Culture troop
On a three-day visit to Liberia where she celebrated International Women’s Day, the executive director for UN Women and former president of Chile Michelle Bachelet was honoured with the distinction of Grand Band in the Star of Africa by Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
The award is given to Liberians and foreigners who have provided distinguished service to the country.
Earlier at a joint press conference with the president, she said that education was an essential issue that was all encompassing from young girls to women and that it was one of the first priorities for her agency.
Bachelet visited the ‘Totota Peace Hut’ in Totota, Bong County, a women-run community court serving to resolve domestic disputes and dispense informal justice.
She saw first-hand the activities of rural women in that part of the country and noted that the agency would be building eight additional “peace huts” throughout the country.
On her arrival Sunday (7 Mar), she was greeted by government and United Nations officials along with a colourful performance by Liberia’s Crusader for Peace Culture troop.
This is Bachelet’s first visit as the head of the new UN Women’s agency. She was appointed executive director of UN Women by the Secretary-General in September 2010.
