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        UN Human Rights Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani on new repressive law in Afghanistan
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        UN Human Rights Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani on new repressive law in Afghanistan

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        STORY: UN Human Rights Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani on new repressive law in Afghanistan

        TRT: 03:11

        SOURCE: UNTV / OHCHR 
        RESTRICTIONS: NONE
        LANGUAGE: English/NATS
        ASPECT RATIO: 16:9 
        DATELINE: 27 August 2024 – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND         

        SHOTLIST 

        1. Exterior shot: Palais des Nations 
        2. Interior shot: Briefing room
        3. SOUNDBITE (English)—Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): “The newly-adopted law on “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” by the de facto authorities in Afghanistan cements policies that completely erase women’s presence in public – silencing their voices, and depriving them of their individual autonomy, effectively attempting to render them into faceless, voiceless shadows.”
        4. Cutaway: briefing room
        5. SOUNDBITE (English)—Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): “This is utterly intolerable. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk calls for this egregious law to be immediately repealed.”
        6. Cutaway: briefing room
        7. Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): “The long list of repressive provisions that this law imposes on women reinforces a number of existing restrictions that violate their fundamental human rights, including their freedom of movement, their freedom of expression, and their right to live free from discrimination. The law includes the requirement to wear clothes that completely cover their bodies from head to toe, including their faces; a ban for transport providers on transporting women unless they are accompanied by a male relative; and the prohibition on women’s voices being heard in public.”
        8. Cutaway: briefing room
        9. Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): “The law further tightens the grip on the media sector, with a ban on publishing images of human beings, presumably also those of de facto officials.”
        10. Cutaway: briefing room
        11. Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): “We call on the de facto authorities to immediately repeal this legislation, which is in clear violation of Afghanistan’s obligations under international human rights law.”
        12. Cutaway: briefing room
        13. Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): “Disempowering and rendering invisible and voiceless half the population of Afghanistan will only worsen the human rights and humanitarian crisis in the country. Rather, this is a time to bring together all the people of Afghanistan, irrespective of their gender, religion or ethnicity, to help resolve the many challenges the country faces.”
        14. Cutaway: briefing room
        15. Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): “When I was in Afghanistan, about two years ago, this should come as no surprise, we were sitting around the table with several women representatives, who were sharing with us the issues that their communities face and solutions. These women were full of solutions. They are in contact with people in the community at a very close level. They understand the issues that are facing the most vulnerable. They have solutions. They need to be given a seat at the table to help implement those solutions. These are partners who are being completely silenced and they're attempting to render them into shadows. Their voices are no longer permissible. Education is no longer permissible. you cannot even see their faces. This needs to stop, and we need to continue talking about it. We need to continue advocating for it and putting pressure on the authorities to listen.”
        16. Cutaway: briefing room
        Teleprompter
        the newly adopted Law on the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice by
        the de facto authorities in Afghanistan cements policies
        that completely erase women's presence in public,
        silencing their voices and depriving them of their individual autonomy,
        effectively attempting to render them into faceless, voiceless shadows.
        This outbreak
        and
        this is utterly intolerable.
        The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker
        Tur, calls for this egregious law to be immediately repealed.
        The law further tightens the grip on the intolerable.
        The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker
        Turk, calls for this egregious law to be immediately repealed.
        The long list of repressive provisions that this law imposes on women
        reinforces a number of existing restrictions
        that violate their fundamental human rights,
        including their freedom of movement,
        their freedom of expression and their right to live free from discrimination.
        The law includes a requirement to wear clothes that
        completely cover their bodies from head to toe,
        including their faces.
        A ban for transport providers on transporting women
        unless they are accompanied by a male relative.
        And a prohibition on women's voices being heard in public
        human beings, presumably also those of de
        facto officials.
        The law, further tightens the grip on the media sector
        with a ban on publishing images of human beings,
        presumably also those of de facto officials.
        We call on the de facto authorities to immediately repeal this legislation,
        which is in clear violation of Afghanistan's
        obligations under international human rights law.
        No
        surprise. We were sitting around the table with
        disempowering and rendering invisible and voiceless.
        Half the population of Afghanistan will only worsen the
        human rights and humanitarian crisis in the country.
        Rather,
        this is a time to bring together all
        the people of Afghanistan respective of their gender,
        religion or ethnicity To help resolve the many challenges that the country faces.
        They understand the issues that are facing the most vulnerable.
        When I was in Afghanistan about two years ago that this should come as no surprise.
        We were sitting around the table with, uh, uh,
        several women representatives who were sharing with us
        the issues that their communities face and solutions.
        These women were full of solutions. They are in contact with people in the
        community at a very close level.
        They understand the issues that are facing the most vulnerable.
        They have solutions.
        They need to be given a seat at the table to help implement those solutions.
        These are partners who are being completely silenced and
        and they're attempting to render them into shadows.
        Their voices are no longer permissible. Education is no longer permissible.
        Uh, you cannot even see their faces.
        This needs to stop, and we need to continue talking about it.
        We need to continue advocating for it and
        putting pressure on the authorities to listen.
        A
        very dire picture. Lisa. That's not too far from the truth.