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UNITED NATIONS NATIONS UNIES 21 st Century Programme : EPISODE # 121 : SCRIPT FOR SHOWS WITHOUT ANCHOR/PRESENTER MUSIC (14”) ANNOUNCEMENT Today on 21 st Century ….. Girls for Sale in India And Canada’s indigenous women the missing and the dead (11”) VIDEO INTRO INDIA: GIRLS FOR SALE NARRATION In India a child is abducted every 8 minutes. Most are girls. A third are never found. NOOR’S FATHER (In Hindi) If the child dies it is easier. If she goes missing, it’s more painful NARRATION Rescuing girls for sale. (23”) TITLE SLATE INDIA: GIRLS FOR SALE (4”)

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UNITED NATIONS NATIONS UNIES 21

st Century

Programme : EPISODE # 121

: SCRIPT FOR SHOWS WITHOUT ANCHOR/PRESENTER

MUSIC (14”)

ANNOUNCEMENT

Today on 21st Century …..

Girls for Sale in India

And Canada’s indigenous women – the missing and the dead (11”)

VIDEO INTRO – INDIA: GIRLS FOR SALE

NARRATION

In India – a child is abducted every 8 minutes. Most are girls.

A third are never found.

NOOR’S FATHER (In Hindi)

If the child dies it is easier. If she goes missing, it’s more painful

NARRATION

Rescuing girls for sale. (23”)

TITLE SLATE

INDIA: GIRLS FOR SALE (4”)

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INDIA : GIRLS FOR SALE (TRT 12’24”)

VIDEO AUDIO

SHOTS OF HOWRAH BRIDGE AND PROSTITUTES IN RED LIGHT AREA RISHI IN TRAVELLING CAR

NARRATION

Kolkata - one of the largest cities in India. It’s home to one

of the biggest red light districts in Asia. Over 60,000

prostitutes work here – many of them children, trafficked

against their will. (16”)

Rishi Kant, is an anti-trafficking activist. His mission is to

rescue underage girls who have been kidnapped and

then sold into prostitution, forced marriage or domestic

slavery. (12”)

UPSOUND/ RISHI KANT RISHI KANT (In English)

Somebody identifies the girl, somebody procures the girl,

brings her out from the village and take her to the railway

station or bus station, from there they are transported to

bigger cities.

Once the girl is sent to Delhi or Mumbai, they are trapped.

(19”)

NARRATION

Today, he’s on his way to meet the parents of a 17 year

old girl, Noor Banu, who disappeared almost a year ago.

(7”)

RISHI’S CAR STOPS OUTSIDE THE VILLAGE AND HE WALKS IN.

Noor Banu’s parents live on less than 50 cents a day. For

them, this may be the only hope of finding their daughter.

(9”)

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INTERCATION OF RISHI AND NOORBANU’S MOTHER NOORBANU’S MOTHER SHOWING HER DAUGHTER’S PHOTOGRAPH TO RISHI

Mother: (In Bengali)

Here have a look. This is her picture. (2”)

Rishi: (in Bengali)

This one is your daughter? (1”)

Mother: (in Bengali)

This guy, who’s my relative, pretended to take my daughter to a doctor’s appointment. I had no clue what was happening because I wasn’t here. ( (14”)

Rishi: (In Bengali)

Did you register a police report? (3”)

Father:

Yes. (1”)

Rishi: (In Bengali)

So are the police trying to find your daughter? (3”)

Mother: ((in Bengali)

No. They can’t even find the kidnappers. (3”)

RISHI TO CAM

RISHI KANT (In English)

Traffickers move from one place to another. Suppose if

this girl is taken from this place, they will go to Kolkata.

From Kolkata they might either go to Howrah Station and

take a train to Delhi or to Mumbai. So we can track this

case...(12”)

RISHI SITTING IN CAR NARRATION

Although Rishi is hopeful, the reality is that around a third

of trafficked children are never traced. (6”)

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ARADHANA SINGH IN HER VAN

Stories of trafficked girls are not unique to this state,

Bengal. They are just as commonplace in the

neighbouring state of Jharkhand where

Aradhana Singh is the head of the Anti-Trafficking Unit.

(12”)

UPSOUND/ ARADHANA ARADHANA SINGH (In Hindi)

This is a hub for trafficking because there is a lot of

poverty. There’s a lack of education and awareness. (7”)

GIRLS ENJOYING AT MELA

NARRATION

There are many traffickers involved in each step of

transporting the girls from the village to big cities. And

there is a financial transaction each time (9”)

UPSOUND/ ARADHANA ARADHANA SINGH (In Hindi)

Sell a girl and the trafficker takes US$ 320. After that

people come to the agencies and buy her for US$ 500-

800. (11”)

ARADHANA SINGH TRAVELLING THROUGH THE AREA

NARRATION

Today, as Aradhana Singh is travelling through the area,

a mother approaches her. (5”)

INTERACTION OF ARADHANA AND MARIAM’S MOTHER

ARADHANA SINGH (In Hindi)

What happened? Where are you coming from? (4”)

MARIAM’S MOTHER

I live nearby, in Murhur. (3”)

ARADHANA SINGH (In Hindi)

So you live in Murhur. Name, Salomi. Is your daughter

missing? (4”)

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MARIAM’S MOTHER

Yes (1”).

NARRATION

The mother reports that her 14 year old daughter Mariam

vanished from her home over 2 weeks ago. (5”)

INTERACTION OF ARADHANA AND MARIAM’S MOTHER

ARADHANA SINGH (In Hindi)

We will do a police report. Get her photograph as well.

(5”)

REENACTMENT OF MARIAM AND THE TRAFFICKER

NARRATION

Mariam’s story, like that of Noor Banu, mirrors the

experience of thousands of other girls. A family member

tricked her into leaving the village with him. To protect her

identity, we have changed her name. (13”)

RISHI MEETS SARBARI HOWRAH STATION RISHI MOVING OUT FROM POLICE STATION GIRLS DANCING ARADHANA SINGH IN POLICE STATION

Meanwhile, back in Kolkata, Rishi Kant plots his next

move to locate 17 year old Noor Banu (6”)

He heads to the busy Howrah station where he believes

Noor Banu may have passed through. (6”)

As expected, the trail is cold. It’s been a year now since

Noor Banu vanished. Most successful rescues take place

soon after the abduction. (10”)

Rishi is not sure what to do next.. (3”)

But in the other case - of 14 year old Mariam, Aradhana

Singh has managed to track down the trafficker. She calls

Rishi to see if he can help find her. (12”)

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ARADHANA ON CAMERA ARADHANA SINGH

We work through a network. And non-governmental

organisations are very helpful since the police can’t be

everywhere. So where we can’t go – the NGOs come in

and help us catch the traffickers (11”)

RISHI IN CAR RISHI MOVING OUT OF CAR AND MEETS JHARKHAND POLICE TEAM MARIAM’S MOTHER AND THE TRAFFICKER

NARRATION

After speaking to Aradhana, Rishi heads to the state of

Haryana, about 150 kilometers away – where Mariam is

believed to be located. (10”)

Rishi meets up with the local police team. Joining them is

Mariam’s mother, and the relative who sold her daughter to a

trafficker for a small payment. This relative has now agreed to

cooperate with the police. (20”)

Rishi and the police set up a trap to capture the local

trafficker. The relative offers him another girl for sale. (9”)

THE TRAFFICKER MAKES THE CALL PHONE INTERACTION OF TRAFFICKER PRAVEEN AND OTHER PERSON ON PHONE CALL

TRAFFICKER PRAVEEN: (in Hindi)

I am Praveen. Can you recall? (2”)

OTHER PERSON ON PHONE CALL:

Yes. Yes. (1”)

TRAFFICKER PRAVEEN: (in Hindi)

I have come to Karnal. I have brought another girl...I’ve

got one more girl. (3”)

OTHER PERSON ON PHONE CALL:

You have brought a girl? (2)

TRAFFICKER PRAVEEN: (in Hindi)

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Yes. Now where should I meet you? (3”)

RISHI READING MESSAGE RISHI AND HIS TEAM MAKING THEIR WAY TO CATCH SURINDER NIGHTSHOTS DRIVING POLICE AT THE TRAFFICKERS HOME A YOUNG GIRL SITTING IN A BED THE POLICE ASKING QUESTIONS – INTERACTION. THEY LEAVE THE HOUSE AND HEAD INTO THE CAR I NTERACTION OF SURINDER AND POLICE IN

NARRATION

The police team’s cyber cell tracks the call. (3”)

OTHER PERSON ON PHONE CALL

I’ll call you back again

Okay?

NARRATION

They now have his location. (2”)

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

over 150,000 people are trafficked within South Asia every

year. Globally, human trafficking is a 32 billion dollar industry.

(16”)

Hoping to find Mariam, Rishi’s team arrive at the trafficker’s,

home. (5”)

VOICES IN RAID

This is Surinder, the trafficker. And there’s a girl here too.

Where are you from? (12”)

NARRATION

There is a young girl in his bed. (2”)

VOICE IN RAID

What is your mother’s name? (2”)

GIRL

Ganga (1”)

VOICE

And your father’s name? (2”)

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CAR MARIAM’S MOTHER ON CAMERA RISHI AND HIS TEAM HEAD TO PUNJAB RISHI AND HIS TEAM

GIRL

Budra. (1”)

NARRATION

But it is not Mariam. (2”)

In the car, the police question the trafficker about Mariam

(3”)

SURINDER SINGH (In Bengali)

The girl you are referring to. What’s her name?

Mariam.

Yes Mariam.

So then we sold her off for marriage in a village near

Punjab. (6”)

MARIAM’S MOTHER (In Hindi)

It is very difficult for me to sleep. I was thrown out of my

own home, but I worked hard and somehow fed her. And

now she’s missing, nowhere to be found. This torture is

slowly killing me. (23”)

NARRATION

The selling of young girls as brides is common in some

states like Punjab and Haryana. A major factor is the

extremely low sex ratio of females to males–

Young girls are brought here and sold as child brides to

the local men at bargain prices. (22”)

The team has received new information on where Mariam

is being kept. But marriage in India is sacrosanct and

snatching a girl from her marital home can have violent

consequences. (14”)

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MOVES AHEAD TO CATCH MARIAM RISHI AND POLICE CONDUCTING RAID MARIAM FINALLY RESCUED RISHI AND PUNJAB POLICE TOOK THE TRAFFICKER TO POLICE STATION MARIAM AND HER MOTHER IN CAR BEING TAKEN TO MARIAM AND HER MOTHER REUNITED POLICE ESCORTING MEN OUT INTO VEHICLES

POLICEMAN

Call the girl’s mother. (2”

VOICES THROUGH THE RAID

Get up, come out!

Just a minute. Just listen to me. (9”)

NARRATION

Startled and afraid, Mariam emerges from the room. (6”)

VOICES THROUGH RAID

You’ve misled this girl and bought her! (3”0

Come child, don’t be afraid. (2”)

MARIAM’S MOTHER

My daughter! (1”)

NARRATION

After 20 days of separation, mother and daughter are

finally reunited. (5”)

VOICES THROUGH THE RAID

Come on, put your shoes on fast.

This is the husband? I’d like to thrash him!

Come on, come on. Move out, let’s get out of here.

He’s an old man! Yes.

He’s at least fifty to fifty five years old!

He was sleeping naked with such a small child! (38”)

NARRATION

The husband of 14 year old Mariam is a 50 year old man.

(5”)

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MARIAM’S HUSBAND GETTING OUT OF CAR NIGHTSHOTS MARIAM MARIAM CRYING CHILD WELFARE COMMITTEE RISHI IN TRAVELLING CAR MARIAM WITH HIM IN CAR NOOR BANU’S FATHER A SMALL GIRL ENJOYING ON SWING

MARIAM

He called me and told me that come I’ll buy you new

clothes. (3”)

When they put me on a train in Ranchi, I realised I was

being taken somewhere else. After that... (4”)

...after that they forced me to get married. (3”)

NARRATION

If convicted, the husband will face 10 years in prison for

purchasing Mariam. (4”)

RISHI KANT

The girl has been rescued finally after at least twenty-four

hours of efforts to trace the girl, and that too - from two

states. (14”)

NARRATION

Mariam will be taken to the Child Welfare Committee for a

hearing before she can go back home. (6”)

Back in Noor Banu’s village, her parents are still waiting for her

return, surrounded by her meagre belongings. (8”)

NOOR BANU’S FATHER (in Bengali)

My feelings are the same as any other parent. If the child

dies it’s easier.

But if she goes missing, it is more painful. (12”)

NARRATION

In India – for every Mariam who is rescued, there are

several Noor Banus who remain missing…… and far too

many parents – and children – continue to feel that pain

(14”)

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VIDEO INTRO – CANADA: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE

NARRATION

A murder that shocked the community….

SGT. O’DONOVAN: (In English)

“This little girl should not have been killed, we’ve all let her down. Every level of

society has let this kid down.”

NARRATION

And the call to end violence against a country’s native peoples...

GERRI-LEE PANGMAN: (In English)

“I have a daughter, she’s 21. And every time she goes out- ‘Is she going to come

home? ‘Call me! Call me, let me know where you are.’”

NARRATION

Canada’s missing indigenous women and girls. (30”)

TITLE SLATE

CANADA: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE

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CANADA: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (TRT: 10’04”)

VIDEO

AUDIO

FONT:

Winnipeg, Manitoba Province,

Canada

AERIAL SHOTS RED RIVER BRIDGE WITH FREIGHT TRAIN

BRIDGE WITH FREIGHT TRAIN RIVERSIDE WITH BIRDS

SGT. JOHN O’DONOVAN: (In English)

“This is the Red River, it’s one of the main

rivers that flows right through North America.”

(5”)

CAMERA FOLLOWS O’DONOVAN WALKING TO RIVER BANK

SGT. JOHN O’DONOVAN: (In English)

“This is the Alexander Docks in Winnipeg.”

(3”)

FONT: SERGEANT JOHN O’DONOVAN, WINNIPEG POLICE SERVICE HOMICIDE UNIT AERIAL SHOTS OF RIVER O’DONOVAN INTERVIEWED AT THE RIVER SIDE STILLS OF POLICE RECOVERY

“So in early August, 2014, August 8th, Sunday

afternoon, there was a gentleman here

walking with his kids, and he spotted what he

believed to be a body, probably about 50

meters north of the fence here and maybe ten

meters out into the water. And he saw what

he believed to be a human arm, and he

alerted the police that were in the area. And

what they recovered was a body of a female,

wrapped in a bed sheet- a duvet cover- and

had been weighed down.” (38”)

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PHOTOS OF TINA FONTAINE

NARRATION The remains were of a 15 year old aboriginal

girl of Sagkeeng First Nation, Tina Fontaine,

who had been reported missing for nine days.

(9”)

POLICE CHIEF SMYTH AND SGT. O’DONOVAN AT MEDIA STAKEOUT

DEPUTY POLICE CHIEF DANNY SMYTH (In

English)

“The homicide unit entered what has become

a long and complicated investigation. The

murder of this child- and let’s not forget she

was a child- has shocked and outraged our

community. And I think that outrage has

resonated across our nation.” (18”)

VIGIL AT THE RED RIVER AND MARCH TO THE MONUMENT

NARRATION

Her death sparked a march through the city

streets, and renewed calls for a national

inquiry to provide answers. (6”)

FONT Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada ON-CAMERA

PM JUSTIN TRUDEAU: (In English)

“First of all our hearts go out to the family and

friends of Tina Fontaine, the entire First

Nation and aboriginal communities are reeling

with this particularly poignant and tragic loss,

but it comes on a compounded loss of so

many missing and murdered over the years.”

(19”)

SLATE: Aboriginal women represent only 4% of the female population in Canada, yet they are the victims of 16% of all murders. (statistic reported by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police)

SLATE:

Aboriginal women represent only 4% of the

female population in Canada, yet they are the

victims of 16% of all murders.

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EXT. SHOTS KA NI KANICHIHK CENTER

NARRATION

Tina’s family is not the only one to struggle

with loss through violence…(4”)

GERRI LEE ON-CAMERA

GERRI LEE PANGMAN: (In English)

“It takes your mind off everything. I mean, I

think of my sister every time I bead. But it’s

not in a bad way. It’s not the ugly part of what

happened. It’s beautiful memories of her.”

(11”)

BEADING

NARRATION

At the Ka Ni Kanichihk Center in the north of

Winnipeg, sisters Gerri-Lee Pangman and

Kim McPherson have a Thursday evening

ritual. (8”)

GERRI-LEE PANGMAN: (In English) “One

bead at a time.” (2”)

KIM MCPHERSON

KIM MCPHERSON: (In English)

“We always make jokes about, like, beading

you know, like ‘Bead it’, like Michael Jackson,

you know, ‘Beat It.’ Or ‘One bead at a time,

like one day at a time’, just really nerdy jokes.”

(12”)

GROUP CLASS AT CENTER

NARRATION

Gerri Lee and Kim are just two among dozens

of women who come to the center each week

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which offers support to indigenous families

affected by violence, homicide, or who have

missing family members. (13”)

BEADING AT TABLE TOGETHER

GERRI-LEE PANGMAN: (In English)

“We used to bead when we were in our teens,

like 12, 13, we used to bead at home, right?”

(5”)

KIM MCPHERSON: (In English)

“And same with our sister, Jennifer.” (2”)

GERRI-LEE TATTOO OF JENNIFER

NARRATION

Jennifer, a mother of two, was murdered in

British Columbia at the age of 41….(6”)

POSTERS OF MISSING

NARRATION

Many families feel that not enough is done to

support aboriginal communities facing these

crimes. (6”)

GERRI-LEE ON-CAMERA

GERRI-LEE PANGMAN: (In English)

“When our sister went missing, there was an

actual error on her identity. They mistakenly

put ‘Caucasian’ and as our family, because of

that, we decided to leave it as ‘Caucasian’,

because she’ll get more attention instead of

changing it to ‘Aboriginal’.” (15”)

KIM MCPHERSON: (In English)

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KIM IN VOICEOVER SHOTS OF ABORIGINAL GIRLS WALKING ON RESERVATION

“The thing with a lot of indigenous families, it’s

not just one tragedy, it’s multiple tragedies.

I’ve heard of one family where there’s been

four or five women who have gone missing or

have been murdered.” (11”)

BERNADETTE’S STREET EXT. SHOTS OF HOUSE

NARRATION

In a quiet street of this neighbourhood, there

is no peace. Bernadette Smith has been

searching for her half-sister, Claudette, for

more than seven years. (10”)

BERNADETTE ON-CAMERA

BERNADETTE SMITH: (In English)

“On July 24th, she was with my sister Tina,

and they had said goodbye to each other on a

crosswalk on Selkirk and Charles. My sister

went one way, my other sister went the other

way, and that was the last time anyone saw

Claudette from my family.” (13”)

BERNADETTE ON-CAMERA AERIAL SHOTS OF WINNIPEG AND MANITOBA FARMLAND

“With someone who’s missing, you never

really know, right. It’s always the

wondering…the phone rings, and is that the

call to let you know? Or the doorbell rings…so

you’re always left constantly wondering.

You’re always left driving past a field and

thinking “Could she be in that field?” It’s very

difficult, it’s not something that you can move

on and kind of…heal, because you have no

answers. There’s nothing. What can you find?

We live in such a big country where there’s so

much field.” (43”)

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CITY SCENES, FACES

NARRATION

Manitoba has the highest population of

Aboriginal people among the provinces, and

many are extremely concerned for their

safety. (8”)

KIM ON-CAMERA

KIM MCPHERSON: (In English)

“Well even as an adult woman I’m very careful

when I walk the street, because people are

just…there’s a lot of creepy people out there.”

(9”)

GERRI-LEE ON-CAMERA WOMEN IN THE CITY

GERRI-LEE PANGMAN: (In English)

“I have a daughter, she’s 21. And every time

she goes out- ‘Is she going to come home?’

‘Call me! Call me, let me know where you

are.’ Or I’ll call her. You know I’m constantly

worrying about her. And it’s scary.” (20”)

FONT Reenactment footage, Winnipeg Police Service Crime Stoppers BERNADETTE ON-CAMERA FONT Courtesy of Winnipeg Police Service Crime Stoppers PHOTOS OF CLAUDETTE

BERNADETTE SMITH:

“My sister was an aboriginal person, she was

a woman, she was someone who had known

drug addiction, and she also had a criminal

record. So we felt all those things played a

role in the police not taking action right away,

and the response we got was ‘she’ll turn up,

she’s an adult, she’s out there somewhere.”

(23”)

MONUMENT AT THE FORKS

NARRATION

There are 1,183 police-recorded incidents of

murdered and missing Aboriginal women and

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UN EXTERIOR SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR AT UN

girls in Canada since 1980- a figure so high

that this monument was commissioned in

Winnipeg to honour their memory. (15”)

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz is an Independent

Expert from the Philippines tasked by the

United Nations to develop a National Inquiry

with the Canadian Government. (9”)

TAULI-CORPUZ ON-CAMERA

VICTORIA TAULI-CORPUZ

(In English)

“Well I was very encouraged with their

response because it seems they are really

sincerely interested to pursue the case, to

address the case once and for all.” (8”)

TRUDEAU WITH THREE MINISTERS AT THE UN

NARRATION

She’ll be working with the three female

Canadian ministers appointed to design the

Inquiry- which will address WHY aboriginal

women and girls in this country are so at risk.

(10”)

TRUDEAU ON-CAMERA AT UN WOMEN EVENT THREE MINISTERS STAND UP

PM JUSTIN TRUDEAU: (In English)

“These three women have led the setting up

of a truly national inquiry into this tragedy to

provide justice for the victims, to provide

healing for the families.” (12”)

MINISTERS AT MEDIA STAKEOUT

EXCERPT OF INQUIRY ANNOUNCEMENT

(MINISTERS):

“Some have linked this violence to the long

term impacts of racism, sexism, colonialism,

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and the devastating impacts of residential

schools on indigenous men, women, and

communities.” (11”)

TAULI-CORPUZ ON-CAMERA

VICTORIA TAULI-CORPUZ

(In English)

“But I think that the more important thing, this

is what I stress with them- that they include

indigenous women who have really suffered

from this problem, because they are the ones

who can say what can be done.” (14”)

PANEL OF FACES SGT. O’DONOVAN AND POLICE CHIEF SMYTH ARRIVE AT MEDIA STAKE-OUT

NARRATION

Women like those in Winnipeg. And with the

Inquiry underway, new evidence provided by

the members of the Winnipeg community led

to an arrest…. (11”)

DEPUTY SMYTH ON-CAMERA

DEPUTY POLICE CHIEF DANNY SMYTH (In

English)

“Today I’m informing the public that Raymond

Joseph Cormier has been charged with

second-degree murder in the death of Tina

Fontaine.” (10”)

CORMIER MUG-SHOT SCENES OF POLICE RECOVERY AT RED RIVER

NARRATION

Cormier, 55 years old, had been traced by

Winnipeg Police to Vancouver and has a

preliminary trial hearing scheduled for May

2017. (12”)

SGT. O’DONOVAN: (In English)

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O’DONOVAN AT ALEXANDER DOCKS PHOTOS OF TINA FONTAINE PEOPLE MARCHING

“This was wrong. This little girl should not

have been killed, we’ve all let her down. Every

level of society has let this kid down. She had

so much potential, like any other kid in the

world, and this is what’s happened to her. But

the way the community pulled together, the

entire community pulled together to conclude

this investigation. We couldn’t have done it

without the people of Winnipeg.” (18”)

BERNADETTE ON-CAMERA VIGIL

BERNADETTE SMITH: (In English) F

“A 15-year old’s body wrapped in a garbage

bag disposed of in the Red River like she’s

garbage, you know, was just..I think it woke

our country up. I think people started to see

that that could be their daughter, that that

could be their sister…they now started to see

themselves reflected in that, and that it could

happen to them, and that ‘I need to do

something about it, I need to get involved.’ ”

(28”)

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LOOK AHEAD

Coming up on a future episode of 21st Century

EDWARD IN WHEELCHAIR LOOKING OUT OF WINDOW

EDWARD NDOPU: (In English)

Isn’t it incredible? You have outlived yourself.

Twenty years ago medical experts told your

mother that, due to spinal muscular atrophy, you

would not live past your fifth birthday.

You feel guilty because you have left folks

behind. You have left millions of disabled twenty-

somethings, scattered throughout the global

south, behind.

In some ways they are like you – young, black,

profoundly disabled – but in many ways they are

not like you.

You live a life they can barely imagine. Unlike

you, they are locked up in the back rooms of grim

nursing homes, made to disappear from public

view, and are neglected and ill-treated by society

and the state.” (45”)

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Credits Show #121 (45”) INDIA: GIRLS FOR SALE

Executive Producer PRIA SOMIAH ALVA

Director

RADHIKA CHANDRASEKHAR

Writers RADHIKA CHANDRASEKHAR

DIPTI CHADHA

Editor RAMESH SINGH

Additional Editing Benjamin Lybrand

Director of Photography

KARAN THAPLIYAL GURIVINDER SINGH RAM BABU GUPTA

Sound Recordist

DEVENDRA SINGH MUBEEN KHAN

Narrator

Francis Mead

Special Thanks SHAKTI VAHINI

DIYA SEVA SANSTHAN, GHAUSHIYA KHAN, EMPOWER PEOPLE

SHAFIQ UR RAHMAN KHAN, EMPOWER PEOPLE SARBARI BHATTACHARAYA, AHTU, CID, WEST BENGAL

ARADHANA SINGH, AHTU, DISTRICT POLICE, KHUNTI, JHARKHAND

Footage Archive TV TODAY NETWORK LTD.

SHAKTI VAHINI

For Channel NewsAsia MOK CHOY LIN

SARA-ANN YUMI R

Original film produced by MIDITECH PVT. LTD. for Channel NewsAsia © 2015 – Mediacorp Private Limited

All rights reserved

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CANADA: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE

Producer Grace Barrett

Videographer Antonio Tibaldi

Editors

Grace Barrett Ben Lybrand

Narrator

Maylan Studart

Footage Archive The Canadian Press Winnipeg Free Press

UN Women

Special Thanks Chaim Litewski, Andrea Gordon, Diane Redsky,

Nahanni Fontaine, Debbie Cumby, Carey Sinclair, Nicholas Schraml, Sarah Lilleyman, Karen Wade,

Scott Harkness, Chad Furet, Nathan Beriro, Dalia McGill

Post Production Editor Ben Lybrand

Post Production Coordinator

Lebe Besa

Line Producer Maggie Yates

Executive Producers

Gill Fickling Francis Mead

Executive-in-Charge

Hua Jiang

21ST

CENTURY © 2017 by United Nations Television