Close- up: TV camera viewfinder with podium speaker in rear of shot (blurred).Medium shot: participants seated in Room XX.SOUNDBITE (English)- Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : “Media reports are an essential tool for officials to quickly learn where measures are being inadequately applied and what concerns are uppermost in the public's experiences.”.Medium shot: Press photographer taking photograph with zoom lens.SOUNDBITE (English)- Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : “In several countries, increasing politicisation of the pandemic and efforts to blame its effects on political opponents, have led to threats, arrests and smear campaigns against journalists who maintain fact-based information about the spread of COVID-19 and the adequacy of measures to prevent it.”.Medium shot, from below: TV cameraman filming speakers (out of shot), with the colourful backdrop of the Room XX ceiling, created by Spanish artist Miquel Barcelo. SOUNDBITE (English)- Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : “When journalists are targeted in the context of protests and criticism, these attacks are intended to silence all of civil society and this is of deep concern.”.Close-up: Michelle Bachelet in TV camera viewfinder and in rear of shot, blurred.SOUNDBITE (English)-Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : “Journalism enriches our understanding of every kind of political, economic and social issue delivers crucial – and, in the context of this pandemic - life-saving information and helps keep governance at every level, transparent and accountable.”.Wide shot: UN Geneva Room XX (formally known as the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilisations Chamber) hosting the UN General Assembly side-event for the freedom of the press and freedom of expression.
Wide shot: UN Geneva flag alley, flags fluttering, a beautiful day, Palais des Nations, Geneva.