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Encyclopedia > UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador

UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors are celebrity advocates of UNESCO and utilize their talent or fame to spread the UNESCO ideals.


The following is a list of Goodwill Ambassadors along with the projects and activities they support.

  • Antonio Abreu - Peace through the music
  • Alicia Alonso - Promotion of ballet (Intangible Program Inheritance)
  • Patrick Baudry - Education of the youth
  • Pierre Berge - HIV/AIDS issues, Cultural Heritage
  • Grace Bumbry - Project of UNESCO "Road of slavery"
  • Montserrat Caballé - Fundraising for children in distress and victims of war
  • Pierre Cardin -
  • Claudia Cardinale - Promotion of Women's Rights, especially women in the Mediterranean
  • Marin Constantin - Music and World Heritage
  • Catherine Deneuve - Protection of Film Heritage and Cultural Heritage
  • Cheick Modibo Diarra - Promotion of education, especially in sciences, sustainable development in Africa
  • Miguel Angel Estrella - Promotion of Culture of Peace and Tolerance through Music
  • Vigdis Finnbogadottir - Promotion of linguistic diversity, Women's right and Education
  • Princess Firyal - Humanitarian action, Refugees, World Heritage, Education of street children, HIV/AIDS prevention, Women's Rights, especially Arab women
  • Ivry Gitlis - Support of Education and Culture of Peace and Tolerance
  • Bahia Hariri - Preservation of World Heritage, Education, Culture, the Environment, Women's Rights and sustainable development in the Arab world
  • Ikuo Hirayama - Safeguarding of the world cultural heritage by the rescue of the Sites and Monuments in danger
  • Jean Michel Jarre - Youth and Tolerance, Defense of the world Heritage and the environment
  • Omer Zülfü Livaneli - Peace and Tolerance through the music and the promotion of the humans right
  • Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg - Main Area of Interest: Education, Woman's Rights, Microfinance and Campaign against poverty
  • Lily Marinho - Promotion of Culture of Peace, Poverty
  • Rigoberta Menchu Tum - Promotion of Culture of Peace, Protection of Rights of Indigenous People
  • Princess Lalla Meryem of Morocco - Protection of Childhood and Women's Rights
  • Kitín Muñoz - Protection and Promotion of Indigenous Culture and environment
  • Ute-Henriette Ohoven - (UNESCO Special Ambassador for the Education of Children in Need) - Education, UNESCO Programme Children in Need
  • Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Pelé) - Promotion of sports as a means of alleviating poverty and drug use
  • Kim Phuc Phan Thi - Children and innocent victims of war
  • Renzo Piano - Protection and Rehabilitation of World Heritage
  • Susana Rinaldi - Street Children, Culture of Peace
  • Mstislav Rostropovitch - Art Education, Humanitarianism, Cultural Heritage
  • Sheikh Ghassan I. Shaker - Fundraising, children and women in need and victims of war, education, microfinance
  • Madanjeet Singh - Support to Sustainable Development through Communication and Information in South Asia, through projects of micro-credit, communication and information, Prix Madanjeet SINGH - UNESCO for the tolerance
  • Wole Soyinka - Human Rights, Freedom of Expression, African Culture
  • Zurab Tsereteli - Cultural and artistic projects
  • Giancarlo Elia Valori - Safeguarding Intangible Heritage
  • Marianna Vardinoyannis - Protection of Childhood and promotion of cultural olympiads, humanitarian relief to war victims
  • Julio Werthein - Education, Culture, Environment

See also

External links

  • UNESCO.org (http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=15006&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html)

  Results from FactBites:
 
UNESCO Bangkok: Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn UNESCOÂ’s Newest Goodwill Ambassador (573 words)
Koïchiro Matsuura, conferred the title of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for the "Empowerment of Minority Children through Education and through the Preservation of their Intangible Cultural Heritage" upon Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.
Under her patronage and active guidance, the restoration of Phra Racha Wang Derm won the 2004 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Award of Merit for its outstanding contribution to conservation in the region, and particularly in Thailand.
At the nomination ceremony, the Director-General said, "UNESCO considers the universal right to education for all children to be of paramount importance to support the provision of access to and the promotion of quality education for every child.
UNESCO - Ikuo Hirayama (478 words)
From 15 to 16 March, UNESCO Headquarters in Paris was the location for an impressive gathering of the OrganizationÂ’s Goodwill Ambassadors.
Education for All, Education for Sustainable Development and UNESCOÂ’s response to natural disasters were the three themes on the agenda for the Annual Meeting of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors, which took place on March 3 and 4 2005 at Organization Headquarters.
UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura received the Goodwill Ambassadors at UNESCO Headquarters on 26 and 27 February 2004 for their the annual meeting.
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