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UN Women Goodwill Ambassador is an official postnominal honorific title, title of authority, legal status and job description assigned to those goodwill ambassadors and advocates who are designated by the United Nations. UN Women goodwill ambassadors are celebrity advocates for the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women also known as UN Women; who use their talent, popularity or fame to assist the UN in better addressing a coordinated, comprehensive response to the interrelated issues of equality and working for the empowerment of women.
In 2011 UNIFEM was merged into UN Women to be redeveloped as a multi focus sub-division of the United Nations. UN Women has enlisted the help of prominent and influential personalities from the worlds of art, music, film, sport and literature to highlight key issues and to draw attention to its activities to promote issues important to women.
Current UN Women goodwill ambassadors Current listed and supporting goodwill ambassadors, and the year they were appointed: NameOriginReferencesDescriptive TitleDanai Gurira / 2018UN Women Goodwill AmbassadorNicole Kidman / 2006UN Women Goodwill AmbassadorEmma Watson2014UN Women Goodwill AmbassadorAnne Hathaway2016UN Women Goodwill AmbassadorMarta Vieira da Silva2018UN Women Goodwill Ambassador for Women and Girls in SportFarhan Akhtar2016Regional UN Women Ambassador for South AsiaHRH Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol2008UN Women National Ambassador of ThailandCindy Sirinya Bishop2018Regional UN Women Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the PacificJaha Dukureh2018Regional UN Women Ambassador for AfricaTong Dawei2016National UN Women Ambassador for ChinaSania Mirza2014Regional UN Women Ambassador for South AsiaHai Qing2015National UN Women Ambassador for ChinaCamila Pitanga2015National UN Women Ambassador for BrazilMuniba Mazari2015National UN Women Ambassador for Pakistan
See also Goodwill Ambassador FAO Goodwill Ambassador UNDP Goodwill Ambassador UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador UNIDO Goodwill Ambassador UNODC Goodwill Ambassador WFP Goodwill Ambassador WHO Goodwill Ambassador
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