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 listed and supporting goodwill ambassadors, and the year they were appointed:[1]
Name | Origin | References | Descriptive Title | |
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Danai Gurira | / | 2018[2] | UN Women Goodwill Ambassador | |
Nicole Kidman | / [3] | 2006[4] | UN Women Goodwill Ambassador | |
Emma Watson | 2014[5] | UN Women Goodwill Ambassador | ||
Anne Hathaway | 2016[6] | UN Women Goodwill Ambassador | ||
Marta Vieira da Silva | 2018[7] | UN Women Goodwill Ambassador for Women and Girls in Sport | ||
Farhan Akhtar | 2016[8] | Regional UN Women Ambassador for South Asia | ||
HRH Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol | 2008[9] | UN Women National Ambassador of Thailand | ||
Cindy Sirinya Bishop | 2018[10] | Regional UN Women Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific | ||
Jaha Dukureh | 2018[11] | Regional UN Women Ambassador for Africa | ||
Tong Dawei | 2016[12] | National UN Women Ambassador for China | ||
Sania Mirza | 2014[13] | Regional UN Women Ambassador for South Asia | ||
Hai Qing | 2015[14] | National UN Women Ambassador for China | ||
Camila Pitanga | 2015[15] | National UN Women Ambassador for Brazil | ||
Muniba Mazari | 2015[16] | National UN Women Ambassador for Pakistan |