Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, announced today that Born This Way Foundation (BTWF) is preparing to launch an unprecedented youth-led initiative that will begin with empowering youth to name their own movement.
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Sex and the City star Kristin Davis and Blood Diamond actor Djimon Hounsou are working together with with Oxfam America to shed light on a little-known problem affecting people around the world.
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The Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center in Cedars-Sinai’s Heart Institute will be named for the famed entertainer in recognition of her philanthropic commitment and it will be directed by C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, a cardiologist and nationally respected expert on women’s cardiovascular disease.
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Oxfam Global Ambassador and photographer Helena Christensen has published a booklet of her photographs which she is sending to government officials and heads of state attending next week’s UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20).
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In the past 18 months, the UNHCR has faced one of the busiest periods of its history, with crisis after crisis keeping the agency at full stretch, but over the next week staff across the globe will take time to commemorate World Refugee Day and the millions they help.
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The U.S. Agency for International Development is currently holding the inaugural USAID Frontiers in Development Forum on the campus of Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
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King and Queen of comedy, Stephen Fry and Ruby Wax, celebrated the launch of Oxfam's biggest ever call for book donations with a Great British tea party at Hay Festival this week.
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Los Angeles Lakers forward-center Pau Gasol is the recipient of the first-ever season-long Kia Community Assist Award in recognition of his outstanding efforts in the community and his ongoing philanthropic and charitable work, the NBA announced yesterday.
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Irish and international artists from the worlds of music, drama, cinema and dance, will perform and give readings at the ‘Electric Burma’ concert for Nobel Peace Prize recipient and leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Steven Spielberg, Founder of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, will present Robert A. Iger, Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s highest honor, the Ambassador for Humanity Award.
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Newman's Own Foundation has made a commitment to donate $30 million to charity this year, in recognition of the 30th anniversary of the founding of Newman’s Own. This milestone represents the largest amount of money Newman’s Own Foundation has donated in a single year.
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“Is it a boy, or is it a child?” is a question former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson, heard her father lament as she was growing up. A country doctor, her father was asked this question time and again by mothers at home births.
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Grinning into the camera as three chicks perch on his shoulder next to the caption “Chicks Love a Vegetarian!” the hilarious British comedian John Bishop is the face of PETA's new billboard campaign.
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A plethora of stars have signed an open letter from Amnesty International to President Obama and Afghan President Karzai in support of Women’s Rights.
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UNICEF has offered its congratulations to UNICEF Ambassador and LA Laker Pau Gasol for winning the 2011-2012 J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award.
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Actor and UNICEF ambassador Selena Gomez has been bringing attention to a rising crisis in the Sahel region in west and central Africa, where drought-caused crop failure across several countries means a severe scarcity of food.
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Tali Lennox, Alan Titchmarsh and TOWIE’s Lydia Bright are among a host of famous names who have used their creative talents to support this year’s Christian Aid Week.
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Award-winning model Tali Lennox recently visited Sierra Leone, one of the world’s poorest countries, as a Christian Aid Week (13-19 May) ambassador. Around half of all Sierra Leoneans are forced to try to survive on the equivalent of just 80p a day, with more than half the country’s population relying on subsistence farming for their income.
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Oxfam has welcomed the appointment of British prime minister David Cameron as joint chair of the United Nations panel that will recommend what should replace the Millennium Development Goals after they expire in 2015.
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The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights' 5th Annual Spring Auction is open with proceeds going to the RFK Center, founded in 1968 as a living memorial to the assassinated politician’s vision of a more just and peaceful world.
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Robbie Williams was in Mexico with UNICEF recently, making a short film about some of the city’s most vulnerable children that will be shown during Soccer Aid on ITV 1, on 27 May 2012.
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Oscar winning actress Sandra Bullock is to be honored for her charitable donations to Warren Eason Charter High School which was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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