In addition to being a mother of six and an Academy Award-winning actress, she is also a Goodwill Ambassador for the U.N.
She is a goodwill ambassador for Unicef, campaigning to fight polio - she contracted the disease when she was nine and one of her adopted children become paralysed after becoming infected.
She was previously a goodwill ambassador for the U.N.
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As a goodwill ambassador for the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), Kidman drew attention to the stalled International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA), a domestic effort to address violence against women globally.
Ms. Mebarak Ripoll became a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in 2003, where she promotes the expansion and improvement of comprehensive early childhood care and education across the world.
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Her position as a world-music star gives her an important platform for her activism: She's been a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF for nearly 10 years, and has her own foundation to support higher education for girls in Africa.
Not only was he asked by the Clinton administration to help train and certify all Muslim military chaplains, his organization being the first to do so, but he also was appointed by the State Department in 1997 as a goodwill ambassador to the Middle East, making six taxpayer-funded trips.
Angelina Jolie is renowned as an Academy Award winning actress, a UN Goodwill Ambassador, and, as of April 2012, a special envoy to the High Commissioner of the UNHCR, the UN's special agency for refugees, a growing global crisis.
The Director-General of UNESCO will designate Sunny Varkey as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for his contribution to ensuring that underprivileged children across the world receive a good quality education by creating a leading model for public-private partnerships.
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She is also a Unicef goodwill ambassador and wants the festival to inspire all ages.
On behalf of UNESCO, and in my own name, I extend my warmest congratulations to Mr. Mandela, a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador since 2005.
The actress and political activist, who is a Unicef goodwill ambassador, is guest director of the 46th Brighton Festival, which runs until 27 May.
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Actress Mia Farrow, a UNICEF goodwill ambassador who has just returned from her fourth visit to Darfur, agreed that the U.S. effort is late and lacking.
"You need young people to have access to these remote locations to see what is going on and understand why things are changing, " Mr Hubert, a Unicef goodwill ambassador, explains.
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He will be designated a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in recognition of his contributions to education and social development through his artistic career and his dedication to the ideals and aims of the Organization.
She was a proud United Nations goodwill ambassador and also set up a school for destitute young girls in South Africa.
Thirty thousand people, including many families, attended a charity match organized by UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Rabah Madjer in Algiers for the profit of UNESCO programmes for African Youth, on Monday 23 April 2012 at the 5 July 1962 Stadium in Algiers (Algeria).
That evening UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock will headline a concert with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Marcus Miller, Hugh Masekela, Lionel Loueke, Tania Maria, Barbara Hendricks, Gerald Clayton, Terri Lyne Carrington, China Moses, Ben Williams, Antonio Hart and others.
The celebrations for World Arabic Language Day continued with a ceremony to nominate Mr Metin Arditi as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in recognition of his work with young Israeli and Palestinian musicians through his Instruments for Peace Foundation.
The opening addresses were followed by a debate between prominent intellectuals and peace advocates -- including UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Forest Whitaker, Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, Lakshmi Puri, Wole Soyinka, Arjun Appadurai, Jeffrey Sachs, as well as Nasser David Khalili.
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