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STORY: NY / KIDJO FGM CONCERT WRAP
TRT: 3:13
SOURCE: UNTV / UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 28 FEBRUARY 2012, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT / FILE
RECENT – UNTV
1. Wide shot, exterior, UN headquarters
28 FEBRUARY 2012, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Angelique Kidjo in concert at the General Assembly Hall
3. SOUND-UP (English) Angelique Kidjo, singer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador:
“Tonight is not just a regular concert of Angelique Kidjo. It’s a concert that I want to dedicate to all the little girls and women of the world that suffer from FGM.”
4. Med shot, audience applaud
5. Various shots, Kidjo singing
FILE – UNICEF SOUND UP SOUTH AFRICA 7 JUNE 2010
6. Various shots, Kidjo singing along and meeting with children in the Soweto community
28 FEBRUARY 2012, NEW YORK CITY
7. Wide shot, panel on FGM at press conference
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
"Female Genital Mutilation and cutting in our view is a clear violation of the fundamental rights of the woman and the girl and it is also extremely harmful to health. In our lifetime, we can put an end to this practice."
FILE – UNICEF – ETHIOPIA NOVEMBER 2009
9. Wide shot, girls walking through field
10. Various shots, girls in classroom
28 FEBRUARY 2012, NEW YORK CITY
11. Wide shot, FGM panel at press conference
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Angelique Kidjo, singer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador:
"As an African women and an African child I think that we Africans can find a solution to this if our leaders really want to put an end to it."
13. Wide shot, Saran Dioubate, explaining her story
14. Med shot, Saran Dioubate, explaining her story
15. Cutaway, press
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Saran Dioubate, FGM Survivor, Guinea:
"My feeling about being cut is like they stole something from me because nobody asked me if I wanted to be cut. Even though I was about six if somebody had explained to me that it was going to be painful I would have said no, I don't want to go through it. And I think the practice has serves no purpose. It's life threatening and complications occur and I know many girls who are still carrying the traumatic experience."
28 FEBRUARY 2012, NEW YORK CITY
17. Various shots, Angelique Kidjo in concert at the General Assembly Hall
Singer Angelique Kidjo performed Tuesday evening in front of a packed General Assembly Hall at United Nations headquarters for a benefit concert to rid the planet of a 2,000 year old tradition.
SOUND-UP (English) Angelique Kidjo, singer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador:
“Tonight is not just a regular concert of Angelique Kidjo. It’s a concert that I want to dedicate to all the little girls and women of the world that suffer from FGM.”
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Female Genital Mutilation or FGM effects an estimated 140 million girls and women worldwide who are currently living with the consequences of FGM.
In Africa, an estimated 92 million girls aged 10 years or older have undergone FGM.
The practice includes procedures that intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
Appointed in 2002 as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, she is a passionate advocate for girls’ education and says that social traditions that condone Female Genital Mutilation or FGM, need to be "tackled at the core" by making entire communities aware of the harmful consequences of the practice.
At a press conference earlier in New York, UN agencies and governments spelled out the realities and consequences of FGM. Every year over 3 million women and girls face the risk of genital mutilation and cutting.
SOUNDBITE (English) Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
"Female Genital Mutilation and cutting in our view is a clear violation of the fundamental rights of the woman and the girl and it is also extremely harmful to health. In our lifetime, we can put an end to this practice."
UNFPA and UNICEF, through a joint programme launched in 2007, are leading efforts to end this persistent violation of the basic human rights of girls and women in one generation.
Babatude said that three years into this program, some 8,000 communities have abandoned FGM, 2,000 alone in 2011 and that social norms and cultural practices are changing.
Kidjo, a Grammy-winning artist who was born in the West African country of Benin said that Africans must take the lead.
SOUNDBITE (English) Angelique Kidjo, singer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador:
"As an African women and an African child I think that we Africans can find a solution to this if our leaders really want to put an end to it."
Saran Dioubate from Ethiopia was cut when she was a child. She said she had no comprehension of what was going to happen.
SOUNDBITE (English) Saran Dioubate, FGM Survivor, Guinea:
"My feeling about being cut is like they stole something from me because nobody asked me if I wanted to be cut. Even though I was about six if somebody had explained to me that it was going to be painful I would have said no, I don't want to go through it. And I think the practice has serves no purpose. It's life threatening and complications occur and I know many girls who are still carrying the traumatic experience."
Kidjo is urging all UN Member States to outlaw female genital mutilation (FGM), by signing a resolution to ban the practice, describing it as a tradition that diminishes women and seeks to destroy their identity.
