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STORY: GENEVA / HUMANITARIAN WRAP
TRT: 1:31
SOURCE: CH UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 26 AUGUST 2011, GENEVA, SWTIZERLAND / RECENT
RECENT - GENEVA, SWTIZERLAND
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Geneva headquarters
26 AUGUST 2011, GENEVA, SWTIZERLAND
2. Wide shot, journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, Spokesperson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights:
"The rule of law is essential and that applies to Gaddafi as well as everybody else. So any acts that take place in Libya should be within international human rights and other international law standards. Assassination is not within the rule of law. If he can be captured alive and the arrest warrants carried through obviously that's the best solution."
4. Cutaway, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Adrian Edwards, Spokesman, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“Our staff on the ground say the overall health state of the latest arrivals, particularly the children, is worse than previously, reflecting the drought and hunger situations inside Somalia. In interviews with our staff, some of the new arrivals say they came from Al Shabaab areas of Gedo and Lower Juba, where insecurity had seriously hampered aid delivery.”
6. Cutaway, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, Spokesperson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“She urges the government to work with both communities to promote reconciliation and remind the government of its responsibility to protect, and to ensure good governance, the rule of law and the upholding of human rights, as well as to take necessary action to prevent inter-communal clashes and general instability throughout the country.”
8. Cutaway, journalists
9. Wide shot, press room
Referring for the hunt for Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, Spokesperson for the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Rupert Colville said “assassination is not within the rule of law” adding “if he can be captured alive and the arrest warrants carried through obviously that's the best solution."
Speaking to reporters today (26 Aug) at the UN headquarters in Geneva, Colville said that it was difficult to confirm reports of summary killings and torture in Libya adding that these incidents would be investigated by the existing Commission of Inquiry on Libya.
He urged all those in positions of authority in Libya, including field commanders, to take active steps to ensure that no crimes, or acts of revenge, are committed.
Turing to the humanitarian situation in Somalia, Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Adrian Edwards said “the overall health state of the latest arrivals, particularly the children, is worse than previously, reflecting the drought and hunger situations inside Somalia.”
According to the UN, due to insecurity, almost no movements were recorded in districts of Mogadishu held by Al-Shabaab until earlier this month. African Union (AU) peacekeepers have also imposed restrictions on civilian movement to areas previously controlled by Al Shabaab, which is reportedly restricting movements, particularly of men, in areas still under its control in the south
In July, nearly 28,000 fled to the city in search of aid after fleeing famine, drought and conflict in the countryside of the Horn of Africa nation, where tens of thousands of people have already died and some 3.2 million others are thought to be on the brink of starvation.
