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STORY: UN / ONE MILLION VOICES
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SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 10 SEPTEMBER 2013, NEW YORK
FILE – RECENT, 2013, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
10 SEPTEMBER 2013, NEW YORK
2. Wide shot, Secretary-General ban Ki-moon and UNDP Administrator Helen Clark enter briefing room and walk to children
3. Various shots, Ban signing poster together with Helen Clark surrounded by children
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“As we approach the 2015 MDG deadline, it is time to reflect on achievements, gaps and new challenges. Our work to define a post-2015 development agenda will help us to recalibrate our efforts to eradicate extreme poverty and chart a course to a world of prosperity, peace, sustainability, equity and dignity for all.”
5. Cutaway, photographer
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The report we launch today captures the voices of over one million people from all regions and backgrounds. Half of the participants were under 30 years old. It is essential that our work meets the needs and aspirations of the largest generation of youth the world has ever known.”
7. Cutaway, presser
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP:
“A strong message coming through the global consultations was that it is important to tackle the unfinished business of the Millennium Development Goals.”
9. Cutaway, audience
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP:
“The Global conversation had other messages for governments too. What came through very strongly was that everywhere people want their governments to do a better job, to be honest and responsible in delivering services, creating the conditions for decent work and citizen security and to take responsibility for the state of the planet and its ecosystems. People also definitively want more input into the decisions their governments are taking at home and in the international forums.”
11. Wide shot, presser ends
The voices of more than 1 million people all over the world were gathered to produce a United Nations (UN) report that reflects their priorities concerning development issues, which will help Member States shape the post-2015 sustainability agenda.
Surrounded by children from the United Nations (UN) International School today at headquarters in New York,
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon signed a plaque to be placed on a "people's podium", which will travel around the world inviting citizens to have their say on what matters most to them.
He said that defining a post-2015 development agenda “will help us to recalibrate our efforts to eradicate extreme poverty and chart a course to a world of prosperity, peace, sustainability, equity and dignity for all.”
He also noted that the report captured the voices of over one million people from all regions and backgrounds. He said that half of the participants were under 30 years old and that it was essential that "our work meets the needs and aspirations of the largest generation of youth the world has ever known.”
UNDP Administrator Helen Clark said that a strong message coming through the global consultations was that “it is important to tackle the unfinished business of the Millennium Development Goals.”
She also said that people want their Governments to do a better job. "To be honest and responsive in delivering services, create the conditions for decent work and citizen security and to take responsibility for the state of the planet and its ecosystems.”
The report, A Million Voices: The World We Want is the result of 88 national consultations, 11 thematic dialogues and an online global survey, which were carried out over the past year. The report is meant to help Member States draft a successor framework to the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which will expire in 2015.
The consultations were carried out by the UN Development Group, which unites 32 UN agencies and funds. More than one million people engaged in the consultation process, half of them under the age of 30, and the UN and its partners put emphasis on reaching the most vulnerable and marginalized groups so that their voices are heard.
