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Cause celebs: Ten Hollywood A listers who are trying to change the world

Cause celebs: Ten Hollywood A listers who are trying to change the world

by The Daily Eye Team October 3 2014, 2:08 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 49 secs

Currently the heroine of humanitarian causes, Angelina Jolie has been a special envoy to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees since 2012, after a decade as a goodwill ambassador. She first understood the consequences of conflict when filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in Cambodia. This year she also joined forced with former foreign secretary William Hague to speak out against sexual violence in conflict. Nicole Kidman became a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF in 1994 and for UNIFEM (UN Development Fund for Women) in 2006. She has spoken out on violence against women and fundraised for a number of causes supporting women’s and children’s health. A newcomer to the UN brigade, Emma Watson was appointed as UN Women’s goodwill ambassador in July this year. The organisation is focussed on working for gender equality, and Watson is the face of the HeForShe campaign launching tomorrow, bringing men and women together to recognise the inequalities women face around the world.

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Humra Quraishi is a writer, columnist and journalist. She has authored Kashmir: The Unending tragedy, Reports From the Frontlines, Kashmir: The Untold Story, Views: Yours and Mine, Bad Time Tales, More Bad Time Tales, Divine Legacy: Dagars & Dhrupad and Meer. She has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous: Profiles, Absolute Khushwant and a series of writings with the late Khushwant Singh. Her take on what's it like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times, is part of the Penguin published anthology, Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And, one of her essays, The State Can't Snatch Away our Children is part of the Zubaan published anthology, Of Mothers And Others. Her essay in the volume on the 1984 Sikh riots, 1984: In Memory and Imagination is titled, Why not a Collective Cry for Justice!  


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