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STORY: UN / ASHLEY JUDD TRAFFICKING
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SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 14 MARCH 2012, NEW YORK CITY
FILE – 2011 NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations headquarters
14 MARCH 2012, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Ashley Judd taking seat at dais
3. Reverse shot, Judd on dais
4. SOUNDBITE (English), Ashley Judd, Actress and activist, Author of All That Is Bitter and Sweet:
“I’ve been on the front lines of the battle of preventable diseases like malaria and HIV/AIDS, travelled into the depraved world of human trafficking, sex slavery and labour slavery, visited the palaces and corridors of power, engaging the decision-makers who can improve public policies. My aim when I began this journey was to make my life an act of worship, to be useful to my fellows.”
5. Med shot, Judd reading from her memoir
6. Cutaway, audience
7. SOUNDBITE (English), Ashley Judd, Actress and activist, Author of All That Is Bitter and Sweet:
“I was at a brothel in Madagascar and interviewing women, asking you know, how, how did you end up here? And this one woman, she was really beautiful, in the most off-handed manner said, ‘Same ole, same ole.’ And that’s when I really made the connection that sex slavery is everywhere, the story is largely the same and differs only in the details.”
8. Cutaway, audience
9. SOUNDBITE (English), Ashley Judd, Actress and activist, Author of All That Is Bitter and Sweet:
“A victim of human trafficking's will to live is probably the most remarkable thing I have ever beheld in my life. The ability to do what is in front of them to do and to keep taking the next breath speaks to some thing about the human spirit that defies explanation.”
10. Cutaway, audience
11. Wide shot, end of press conference
Actress Ashley Judd participated in a discussion with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on human trafficking, HIV/ AIDS and women’s issues and shared experiences she chronicles in her new memoir, “All that is Bitter and Sweet.”
She told of her experiences travelling around the world to the “front lines of the battle of preventable diseases like malaria and HIV/AIDS” and investigating the “depraved world of human trafficking, sex slavery and labour slavery” in order to bring those stories to the “palaces and corridors of power” where decision-makers shape public policy.
“My aim when I began this journey was to make my life an act of worship, to be useful to my fellows,” she said as she read from her book.
Judd said she was interviewing women in a brothel in Madagascar, asking how they ended up there, when one woman off-handedly said, “Same ole, same ole.” That was the moment she realized that that sex slavery was everywhere, the story “differs only in the details.”
“A victim of human trafficking's will to live is probably the most remarkable thing I have ever beheld in my life,” she said, stressing that their ability to “do what is in front of them to do and to keep taking the next breath” defies explanation.
