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UNOG NEWS Global Humanitarian Overview, Tom Fletcher OCHA 03DEC2024
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UNOG NEWS Global Humanitarian Overview, Tom Fletcher OCHA 03DEC2024
Global Humanitarian Overview – Tom Fletcher - OCHA
TRT: 03 min 54s
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
ASPECT RATIO: 16:9
DATELINE: 04 DECEMBER 2024 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
Speakers:
- Tom Fletcher, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator & Head of OCHA
SHOTLIST
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- Exterior médium-wide: UN Geneva flag alley.
- Medium wide, UN Geneva Press room podium and speakers.
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Tom Fletcher, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator & Head of OCHA: “We are dealing with a polycrisis right now globally and it is the most vulnerable people in the world who are paying the price. We are dealing with the impact of conflicts - multiple conflicts - and crises of longer duration and of more intense ferocity.”
- Medium-wide, speakers at podium, Press room with journalists.
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Tom Fletcher, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator & Head of OCHA: “If you look at the gap between the number who we want to reach this year - I think it's 190 million - and the number we think are in need - 305 million - my maths is shakier than it was, but I think there's 115 million that we won't be able to reach with the support that we would like to.”
- Medium-wide, speakers at podium, Press room with journalists, TV screens showing principal speaker.
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Tom Fletcher, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator & Head of OCHA: “In DRC, as with all these conflicts, we are ready to do more, it's our mission to do more. My people are desperate to get out there and deliver because they really are on the frontline. They can see what is needed but we need these resources. That's our call to action and we also need the world to do more; those with power to do more, to challenge this era of impunity and to challenge this era of indifference.”
- Wide, Press room, journalists.
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Tom Fletcher, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator & Head of OCHA: “It's not just the fact of so many conflicts at the same time, it's the duration of those conflicts; the average length is 10 years. So, we're not closing off conflicts before the next ones are starting. And the fact that those conflicts are so ferocious and the impact on civilians is so dramatic. I mentioned Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine as examples of that, with this disregard of international law and in every case, obstruction of our work.”
- Medium-wide, Press room, journalists, one video journalist is filming with mobile phone.
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Tom Fletcher, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator & Head of OCHA: “We can debate conflict versus climate change, but I think the toxicity of this and the dread I have is that those two huge drivers of need are now combining. And that's what makes our job so difficult. And they're often combining in areas that have already suffered huge levels of poverty and inequality.”
- Medium, automatic camera and TV screen showing speaker in frame.
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Tom Fletcher, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator & Head of OCHA: “So we reckon 123 million people have been displaced forcibly by conflict. And among that group, you know, violations against children are also at record levels and I saw this of course in in Sudan; one in every five children is living in a conflict zone right now.”
- Medium-wide, TV journalist with camera, photographer.
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Tom Fletcher, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator & Head of OCHA: “I talked to our teams in the field every day and they are facing multiple obstructions to getting the basics of humanitarian aid through.”
- Medium-wide, journalists, photographer.
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Tom Fletcher, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator & Head of OCHA: “Our job is to get the humanitarian support through, checkpoint by checkpoint, border by border, it's what I was doing in Sudan, meeting by meeting last week. Arguing truck by truck for that humanitarian delivery. That's our mission.”
- Medium-wide, journalists, photographer.
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Tom Fletcher, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator & Head of OCHA: “It's not just the ferocity of these conflicts - Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, Syria - it's about that willful neglect of international humanitarian law. And about the fact and as a result, we seem to have lost our anchor somehow.”
- Close, speaker’s face in foreground, blurred, laptop screen behind.
- Medium, speaker holding up Global Humanitarian Overview document.
Teleprompter
We are dealing with a poly crisis right now
globally,
and it is the most vulnerable people in the world
who are paying the price.
We are dealing with the impact of conflicts.
Multiple conflicts and crises
of longer duration
and of more intense ferocity.
It fills me with a mixture of shame.
If you look at the gap between
the number who we want to
reach this year,
I think it's 190 million,
and the number we think are in need,
305 million.
My maths is uh is shakier than it was,
but I think there's 115 million.
That we won't be able to reach with the support that we would like to.
The reality is,
as you know well,
that we are dealing In,
as with all these conflicts,
we are ready to do more.
It's our mission to do more.
My people are
desperate to get out there and deliver because they really are on the front line,
they can see
what is needed.
But we need these resources.
That's our call to action,
and we also need the world
to do more,
those with power
to do more,
to challenge
this era of impunity and to challenge this era of indifference.
It's not just the fact of so many conflicts at the same time,
it's the duration of those conflicts.
The average length is 10 years,
so we're not closing off conflicts before the next ones are starting,
and the fact that
those conflicts are
so ferocious.
And the impact on civilians is so
dramatic.
Uh,
I mentioned Gaza.
Uh,
Sudan,
Ukraine,
as examples of that,
with this disregard of,
uh,
of international law
and in the,
in every case,
obstruction of our work.
And you in this room
know this much better.
We can debate conflict versus climate change,
but I think the
The toxicity of this,
and the,
the,
the dread I have
is that those two
huge
uh drivers
of need are now combining.
And that's what makes our job
so difficult.
And they're often combining in areas that have already
suffered
huge uh levels of poverty and uh and inequality.
So we reckon 123 million people have been displaced
forcibly by conflict.
And
Among that group.
You know,
violations against children are also at record levels.
And I saw this of course in uh in Sudan,
1 in every 5 children
is living in a conflict zone right now.
I visited rehabilitated.
I talk to our teams
uh in the field every day and they
are facing multiple
obstructions to getting.
The basics of humanitarian aid
through.
I spent a lot of time.
Our job.
is to get the humanitarian support through.
Checkpoint by checkpoint,
border by border,
it's what I was doing in Sudan,
meeting by meeting last week.
Arguing truck by truck
for that humanitarian delivery,
that's our,
our mission.
Includes others,
Germany,
the US.
It's not just the ferocity of these conflicts.
Gaza,
Ukraine,
Sudan.
Syria
Uh,
it's about
That
wilful neglect of international humanitarian law.
Uh,
and about the fact,
and as a result we seem to have lost our anchor somehow.
We should be honest.
This isn't the world.
And this is how we put it out.