UNHCR
TITLE: JORDAN: WORLD REFUGEE DAY ZA’ ATRI VISIT.
DATE SHO0T: JUNE 20, 2013
LOCATION: Za’atri Refugee Camp, Jordan
SOUND:NAT/ENGLISH/ARABIC
SOURCE: SCOTT GODDARD/ DON MURRAY/ EDITH CHAMPAGNE
AIRDATE: JUNE 20, 2013
RUNS: 01:55
A desert transformed into a city…..the Za”atri refugee Camp.
Less than a year ago….it opened to house 20,000 refugees. Today, 10,000 tents and as many caravans later, it holds over 120,000 people.
To mark World Refugee Day, the High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres visited a family that arrive shortly after the camp opened,
SOUNDBITE : Antonio Guterres High Commissioner for Refugees ( English)
‘ I have never seen such a brutal war. Nor have the people. It really breaks my heart to see the Syrian people suffering so much. ”
CLIP: Antonio Guterres High Commissioner for Refugees
“ There is no other place in the world where we can see the effects of a brutal war and we can see human suffering at such a dramatic scale. To come to Za’atri is to feel that this world has to change.”
UNHCR’s Special Envoy Jolie met another family
Their four-month year old daughter Farah was born in Za’atari.
The family fled after a mortar hit their house traumatizing their four-year old son and leaving him deaf.
His mother Mouna says her children still live with the fearful memory of aerial bombardments.
SOUNDUP Mouna – Syrian Refuge ( Arabic)
“They lived in extreme fear in Syria. Even in the camp, when planes come over the kids get so frightened. They run away and hide. “
At a joint press conference Ms. Jolie pleaded for action.
CLIP: Angelina Jolie UNHCR Special Envoy ( English)
“I pray that all parties in the Syrian conflict will stop targeting civilians and will allow access to humanitarian. I appeal to the world leaders to set aside your differences and unite to end the violence. Make diplomacy succeed.”
Around the world the total number of refugees and internally displaced persons is now more than 45 million, the highest in 18 years.
The refugee disaster in Syria is now the focal point.
In the first six months of 2013 another million Syrian refugees have streamed out of their broken country.
Every 14 seconds a new refugee crosses a border… and the grim count grows.
SHOTLIST
00:00 01 WS SHOT OF THE CAMP
00:00:07 LOTS OF REFUGEES WALKING WITH WHEELBARROWS
00:00:17 HIGH COMMISSIONER ENTERS refugee tent
00:00:24 Refugee family
00:00:26 SOUNDBITE : Antonio Guterres High Commissioner for Refugees
‘ I have never seen such a brutal war. Nor have the people.”
00:00 46 HC walking
00:00: 51 CLIP: Antonio Guterres High Commissioner for Refugees
“ There is no other place in the world where we can see the effects of a brutal war and we can see human suffering at such a dramatic scale. To come to Za’atri is to feel that this world has to change.”
00:01:08 Special Envoy and refugee family
00:01:10 CU of baby
00:01:13 MS Special Envoy with family
00:01:16CU of boy’s leg
00:01:19 MS father Ahmed and son
00:01:21 High Commissioner and Special Envoy arrive at press conference
00:01:31 CLIP: Angelina Jolie UNHCR Special Envoy ( English)
“I pray that all parties in the Syrian conflict will stop targeting civilians and will allow access to humanitarian aid. I appeal to the world leaders to set aside your differences and unite to end the violence. Make the diplomacy succeed.”
00:01:46 VARIOUS OF CAMP
00:01:55 END