Kidman urges campaign to protect women
24/4/08
Australian actor Nicole Kidman, seven months pregnant and passionately committed to her other job as a UN goodwill ambassador, yesterday urged world leaders and ordinary people to join the global fight to end violence against women. “One in three women will encounter violence in some way, shape or form against them in their lifetime,” Kidman said at UN headquarters in New York. “That’s an extraordinary statistic. Yet do we ever hear it?” The 40-year-old became a goodwill ambassador in January 2006 for the UN Development Fund for Women, known as UNIFEM.
See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23590522-2703,00.html
Tags: Domestic Violence, Human Rights, UN