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UNITED NATIONS

The United Nations audiovisual family, with its wealth of programmes and services, seeks partnerships with broadcasters to create television and film productions that empower people. This year's special focus is on the stories related to climate change and the Millennium Development Goals.

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UN TV's series of 12 x 26' news-magazine programmes, produced in cooperation with UN Agencies, puts a spotlight on the world's most underreported stories. Each episode features 2 to 3 compelling human interest stories that reflect our lives today. more...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



UN TV's award-winning television series reports on the work of the UN and its Agencies around the world. These 2- to 4-minute features illustrate UN peacekeeping efforts as well as UN projects around the world. more...

     
 


The IAEA offers broadcasters loosely-cut and ready-to-air TV packages on topical nuclear issues, free of rights. From 2 to 8 minutes, issues range from nuclear terrorism and safety, to inspections at nuclear facilities and the use of nuclear applications in medicine and industry. B'roll and public service announcements (15, 30 and 60 seconds) are also offered free of rights to broadcasters.

This recent report from Goiânia, Brazil, looks at the world's worst radioactive source accident two decades later.
     
 


Public Service Announcementss on the theme of World Health Day 2008 (7 April) "Protecting Health from Climate Change" to draw worldwide attention to the subject.



The MDG Monitor is a new multimedia tool to track global and country-level progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It consolidates existing MDG data and information in a single place, and showcases it in ways accessible to a wide spectrum of audiences. The MDG Monitor is designed as a one-stop-shop for information on progress towards the MDGs globally, and at the country level. It is intended as a tool for policymakers, development practitioners, journalists, students and others.

This multimedia project is a UN initiative produced by UNDP in partnership with Google and Cisco, and other UN Agencies. more...


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A documentary Human Development Report 2007/2008 – Climate Change (7'00") shows how climate change is already affecting the world's poor and how they will suffer first and foremost from the effects of global warming.

Mid-point for the Millennium Development Goals documentary demonstrates how, midway through the MDGs' commitments, the effort so far has affected people's lives in the developing world.

Contact at MIP TV 2008: Mr. Boaz Paldi, boaz.paldi@undp.org

   

 


The State of the Planet 2007 video news release on the health of the global environment.

Climate Change PSAs (Public Transport animation and Eco-tips for Jeans)

A video news release of the launch of UNEP's Global Environment Outlook report.
   


Production of investigative reports, news releases and short features on
women's reproductive rights issues.

Fight for Life documentary series of 6x20-minute programmes shows the difficulties experienced by women giving birth in developing countries and illustrates cost effective best practice solutions used in other developing countries which can help reduce the high maternal and infant mortality rates. Filming for the programmes took place in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bolivia, India, Malawi, Mongolia and Uganda. The series was broadcast on BBC World and later on numerous national television stations around the world.

In the Nurses on the Front Line powerful documentary series from BBC World's Frontline stable, the programmes follow the inspiring work of doctors from Myanmar, Indonesia, Zambia, Bolivia and Mozambique.

When Mother Died, the Family Fell Apart (30") This thought-provoking PSA brings attention to the tragic deaths of women who die needlessly in pregnancy or childbirth, every minute of every day, and what it does to families, communities and nations around the world. Several TV stations, including BBC World, has aired the PSA globally for free for several months, due to its high artistic value. This way the piece has helped spread the word: "No Woman Should Die Giving Life". The PSA was produced by UNFPA with the Art Center in Pasadena, California, as part of an advocacy campaign for safe motherhood launched at the global "Women Deliver" conference in November 2007.
     
 


Children and their well-being are at the heart of fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals and, therefore, building a better future for all. While there have been tremedous gains in reducing child mortality and getting children into school, challenges such as AIDS and climate change demand that each of us in the media does our part to advocate for a better, more secure future. UNICEF's multimedia outreach materials - news stories, B-rolls, stills, PSAs and documentaries - are available to all journalists, at no cost, to tell the stories of today's children...and tomorrow's leaders.
     
 


Slum Survivors, Documentary

From Rubble to Reconstruction: People Taking Charge, Documentary

Playing Between Elephants is a documentary about a post-tsunami Aceh where people have to rebuild houses and go through a rehabilitation process. The film very intimately shows how complicated it is to survive a traumatic event and then experience global intervention. Rebuilding a house in post-tsunami Aceh brings into play the whole world and forces the local people to learn to deal with the friction between the global and local realms.
 
 


Video material in different formats on global health topics such as innovative field research into malaria, river blindness and other tropical issues.

  
   
 


Documentaries:
Living in 3D - Density, Distance, Division (45'): How will we cope with the increasing number of people with ever increasing ability to move about the planet? A billion slum dwellers, a billion displaced people, a billion desparatly poor. What shall we do?

Public Service Announcements:
Gender Equality-Smart Economics: Much more can be done to raise the status of women around the world and give them more opportunity. It's simple economics- investing in women increases prosperity for all.

News Features:
Easing Global Trade in Mozambique: Mozambique's recent economic upturn despite the setbacks of natural disasters has been buoyed by opening up its borders and modernising its ports to enable much freer and more efficient passage of goods.

The World Bank Group will soon undertake production of a major documentary feature to correspond with the publication of The World Development Report. Fast and frequent movements of people and products has helped America, Europe, and recently China, corner three fourths of global production with less than one sixth of the world's population. It will examine how the economic forces of agglomeration, migration and specialization are shaping our future and what we need to do to increase the level of opportunity for all.

  
 


         
         
 
A free daily 10-minute satellite feed through APTN's Global Video Wire, UNifeed transmits from UN Headquarters in New York, news stories, features and expert interviews on a variety of international issues. The UNifeed website provides the daily rundown and preview of stories, access to scripts, contact information, links to participating agencies and background information. UNifeed stories will be soon available via Internet.
         
 
 
© UN, 2008. Prepared by the Department of Public Information, Promotion and Distribution Unit.