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5 Hollywood Actors Who Work For A Good Cause

5 Hollywood Actors Who Work For A Good Cause

by The Daily Eye Team September 15 2015, 3:02 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 44 secs

Celebrities like Angelina Jolie, Emma Watson and Leonardo Di Caprio have worked for causes like refugee’s crisis, feminism and environment respectively. Quoting the story for a 13-year-old Iraqi girl who was repeatedly raped and valued for $40, Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie – special envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) – urged the British parliamentary committee to take a strong stance against the Islamic State, the militant outfit who is using rape as a policy.  The ISIS is promoting the concept of rape by saying it is the way to build a society. Angelina was a part of the initiative to prevent sexual violence. After her visit to Syria where she spent time with the Syrian refugee families, she asked the UN Security Council to look for long term-solutions to resolve conflicts in the war torn country.

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Deepa Gahlot writes extensively on cinema, theatre, the arts, women's issues for several publications and websites. In the past, she worked for tribal development with an NGO, ran a print features syndicate and wrote for a few short documentaries. She has won the National Award for Best Film Criticism, edited several cinema journals. Her work has appeared in anthologies on women's studies, theatre and cinema. Her published books include, The Prithviwallahs (co-authored with Shashi Kapoor), and biographies of Shah Rukh Khan and Shammi Kapoor, Take 2: 50 Films that Deserve a New Audience and Sheroes: 25 Daring Women of Bollywood.


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