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STORY: AFGHANISTAN / VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
TRT: 1.58
SOURCE: UNAMA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / DARI /NATS
DATELINE: 25 NOVEMBER 2012, KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
25 NOVEMBER 2012, KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
1. Wide shot, dais
2. Tilt up, from dais to participant
3. Med shot, women in audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdul Ramizpoor, UNAMA Human Rights Officer:
“Violations against women or violence against women is something, unfortunately, that exists in Afghanistan quite in a high level unfortunately through harmful traditional practices.”
FILE – UNDATED, AFGHANISTAN
5. Various shots, woman’s public execution (excerpt from film)
25 NOVEMBER 2012, KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
6. Pan right, conference participants
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Alka Sadat, Documentary Filmmaker:
“A group of us in UNAMA worked on this documentary. Fortunately, these documentaries can play a strong role in the EVAW campaigns and increase awareness about the elimination of violence against women in the country, and its latest developments. This film was produced impartially with many voices and was followed by a round table discussing topics on developments and challenges of women in Afghanistan, examining the past ten years.”
FILE – UNDATED, AFGHANISTAN
8. Various shots, excerpts from film
United Nations in Afghanistan marked this year's International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25 November) by screening a UNAMA-produced video documentary at a ceremony in the capital, Kabul, and by organizing radio and television roundtables in different parts of the country.
Both the 30-minute documentary “Ten Years On: The Elimination of Violence Against Women” and the media roundtables highlighted various forms of violence Afghan women have faced over the past decade despite some improvements.
SOUNDBITE (English) Abdul Ramizpoor, UNAMA Human Rights Officer:
“Violations against women or violence against women is something, unfortunately, that exists in Afghanistan quite in a high level unfortunately through harmful traditional practices.”
The Kabul ceremony was attended by government officials, representatives of national and international non-governmental organizations, women activists and journalists.
Alka Sadaat, the director of the documentary, said the time has come for Afghan women to break their silence and raise their voices.
SOUNDBITE (Dari) Alka Sadat, Documentary Filmmaker:
“A group of us in UNAMA worked on this documentary. Fortunately, these documentaries can play a strong role in the EVAW campaigns and increase awareness about the elimination of violence against women in the country, and its latest developments. This film was produced impartially with many voices and was followed by a round table discussing topics on developments and challenges of women in Afghanistan, examining the past ten years.”
In his message to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, which is also the start of a 16-day global campaign against violence against women, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on world leaders to “make good” on pledges they have made to end violence against women, a scourge that affects millions of women and girls worldwide.
Ban told the Security Council in September that harmful traditional practices, “particularly affecting women and girls”, remain endemic in Afghanistan. In a statement in July this year, UN Women said with increased cases of violence against women being reported by Afghanistan’s independent Human Rights Commission, “it is vital that the important gains made for and with women over the past decade are advanced and sustained and women are fully engaged in charting the future of Afghanistan”.
