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STORY: SOWC / UNICEF OVERVIEW
TRT: 2.01
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: RECENT / FILE
FILE - 30 JUNE 2011, DAKAR, BANGLADESH
1. Wide shot, traffic on street
FILE - 28-31 JANUARY 2012, ABIJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE
2. Wide shot, child in slum
FILE - 30 JUNE 2011, DAKAR, BANGLADESH,
3. Wide shot, street traffic
FILE - 18-24 SEPTEMBER 2011, CHISEC, GUATEMALA
4. Wide shot, family walking along street
RECENT - 28-31 JANUARY 2012, ABIJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE,
Wide shot, pan from building to busy street
RECENT - 31 JANUARY 2012, NEW YORK
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Abid Aslam, Editor, UNICEF State of the World’s Children report:
“Increasingly people are being born into existing urban environments and what is alarming to us is that for far too many children those conditions are extremely harsh.”
FILE – 4 MARCH 2006, NAIROBI, KENYA
6. Wide shot, slum buildings
FILE - UNKNOWN DATE AND LOCATION
7. Med shot, boy sleeping in cart
RECENT, 24-26 JANUARY 2011, LUANDA, ANGOLA
8. Wide shot, boys collecting water in dirty stream
RECENT - 31 JANUARY 2012, NEW YORK
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Abid Aslam, Editor, UNICEF State of the World’s Children report:
“They don’t know often from one week to the next where they’re going to live, much less whether they’re going to be able to go to school, or whether they’re going to have clean, piped water.”
FILE - 26 FEBRUARY 2008, DAMASCUS, SYRIA
10. Wide shot, woman walking child down street
FILE - APRIL 2006, ZHENG ZHOU, CHINA
11. Wide shot, people sitting in street
RECENT - 28-31 JANUARY 2012, ABIJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE
12. Wide shot, child in dirty street
FILE - 21 APRIL 2011, PANAMA CITY, PANAMA
13. Wide shot, children playing football
FILE - 20 DECEMBER 2010, MALPASSE, HAITI,
14. Med shot, woman and child in street
FILE - 31 JANUARY 201, NEW YORK
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Abid Aslam, Editor, UNICEF State of the World’s Children report:
“What this report does is it takes the same analytical lens and applies it to cities. Not to take any focus away from the countryside, but to establish that inequality exists in plain view of some of the most powerful, wealthy, influential and responsible, I would argue, people in society.”
FILE - 18-24 SEPTEMBER 201, JALAPA, GUATEMALA
16. Wide shot, busy street
FILE - APRIL 2006, ZHENG ZHOU, CHINA
17. Wide shot, busy street
RECENT - 28-31 JANUARY 2012, ABIJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE
18. Wide shot, man with bicycle beside busy street
FILE - 16 OCTOBER 2006, DAKAR, BANGLADESH
19. Wide shot, children in crowded slum
FILE - 18-24 SEPTEMBER 2011, GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA
20. Wide shot, girls walk across plaza
FILE - APRIL 2006, ZHENG ZHOU, CHINA
21. Wide shot, children in school
FILE - 30 JUNE 2011, DAKAR, BANGLADESH
22. Wide shot, girls sitting on ground
RECENT - 28-31 JANUARY 2012, ABIJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE
23. Wide shot, children playing football
Just over half the world’s population, including more than a billion children, now live in cities and towns, more people than any other time in human history.
Traditionally people move to cities to improve their lives, but a new UNICEF report shows that urban life also hides great disparities between rich and the poor.
SOUNDBITE (English) Abid Aslam, Editor, UNICEF State of the World’s Children report:
“Increasingly people are being born into existing urban environments and what is alarming to us is that for far too many children those conditions are extremely harsh.”
Whether it’s because of gang violence, homelessness, or exploitative labour, slum life for children holds many dangers and few certainties.
SOUNDBITE (English) Abid Aslam, Editor, UNICEF State of the World’s Children report:
“They don’t know often from one week to the next where they’re going to live, much less whether they’re going to be able to go to school, or whether they’re going to have clean, piped water.”
The report turns on its head the notion that children who live in cities are better off than those in rural areas. It shows that while disadvantaged children may live near good schools and hospitals, they are cut off from them by poverty and discrimination.
SOUNDBITE (English) Abid Aslam, Editor, UNICEF State of the World’s Children report:
“What this report does is it takes the same analytical lens and applies it to cities. Not to take any focus away from the countryside, but to establish that inequality exists in plain view of some of the most powerful, wealthy, influential and responsible, I would argue, people in society.”
The report identifies the pockets of greatest deprivation in cities. And it encourages political leaders and decision makers to make a greater effort to understand the issues surrounding poverty and to improve the lives of the most marginalized.
