United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has named actress Nicole Kidman as its Goodwill Ambassador.
UNIFEM Executive Director Noeleen Heyzer while introducing Kidman at a news conference in New York yesterday said, "We are honoured to have Nicole join the UNIFEM family,” .
Stating that she was no expert on women's issues Kidman said she was 'honoured' to become a Goodwill Ambassador but was looking forward to learning and lending her support to “help make visible the very real and immediate problems.”
Ms. Kidman said she first became aware of UNIFEM because of its work in Cambodia with rural women and then got in touch with Ms. Heyzer to see how she could lend her support.
The actress, who last year starred in a movie entitled "The Interpreter" in which she played a UN interpreter, now joins a small circle of UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassadors that includes Princess Basma of Jordan, and the Honourable Phoebe Asiyo of Kenya.
Over the years, many persons of international stature have lent their names, talents and time to support UN system organizations, with many designated as Goodwill Ambassadors or celebrity advocates.
UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women's empowerment and gender equality. Placing the advancement of women's human rights at the centre ofall of its efforts, UNIFEM focuses its activities on four strategic areas: (1) reducing feminized poverty, (2) ending violence against women, (3) reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS among women and girls, and (4) achieving gender equality in democratic governance in times of peace as well as war.
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
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