Showing posts with label Human Rights Activist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Human Rights Activist. Show all posts

Monday, 8 August 2011

Halle Berry

Halle Berry
Halle Berry was born on August 14, 1966) is an actress, former model and beauty queen. Berry has received Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG and NAACP Image Award for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and won an Oscar for Best Actress and was nominated for a BAFTA in 2001 for her performance in Monster Ball, becoming the first and from 2011, the only African American woman to win the award for Best Actress. One of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood and also a Revlon spokeswoman. She has participated in the production side of several films in which he played.

Before becoming an actress, Berry entered several beauty contests, finishing as first runner in the U.S. Miss (1986), and coming in 6th place in Miss World in 1986. She made her film debut with a small role in 1991's Jungle Fever. This led to roles in The Flintstones (1994), Bulworth (1998), X-Men (2000) and its sequels, and as Bond girl Jinx in Die Another Day (2002). She also won the Golden Raspberry for worst actress in 2005 for Catwoman and accepted the award in person one of the few artists to do so.

Angelina Jolie Voight

Angelina Jolie Voight
Angelina Jolie was born Angelina Jolie Voight, 04 June 1975) is an American actress. He received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Award and three Golden Globe and was named the highest paid actress in Hollywood by Forbes in 2009 and 2011. [1] [2], Jolie is a significant contribution to humanitarian causes as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). He is the world's "sexiest" women and "beautiful", the titles that received considerable media attention.

Jolie made her screen debut as a child with her father Jon Voight in Lookin 'to Get Out (1982), but his film career began in earnest a decade later with the Cyborg low-budget production 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in the cyber-thriller Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical TV movie George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Oscar for best supporting actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999).

Jolie won fame after its broad representation of the video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and settled among the actresses in Hollywood paid with after Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) She strengthened. reputation as a star of action leading to Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) and Wanted (2008), who scored his biggest non-animated commercial success to date, and received more rave reviews for her performance in the drama A Mighty Heart (2007) and Chang Ling (2008), which earned him a nomination for an Oscar for Best Actress.

Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie currently lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship that has attracted media attention worldwide. Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax and Zahara, and three biological children, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne.

Saturday, 6 August 2011

Ansar Burney

Ansar Burney
Ansar Burney (Urdu: انصار برنی, born August 14, 1956 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan) is a leading Pakistani human rights activist and civil rights. He was educated at the master of law from the University of Karachi and honorary degree recipients. philosophy. In 1980, Ansar Burney began the "Ansar Burney Welfare Trust", "Aid Society of prisoners" and "Bureau of missing persons and abducted" in Karachi. Ansar Burney is accredited as the first man to introduce the concept of human rights in Pakistan nearly 30 years ago.He and organization (Ansar Burney Trust) is also accredited to secure the release of nearly 700,000 innocent prisoners from countries all over the world. A famous case is that of M . Akhtar Muhammad, where the mother was raped before she was born Akhtar in prison. Akhtar After birth no one would accept it, and he spent 40 years in prison before his release.

With its outstanding achievements in the field of civil and human rights, Ansar Burney was the first man to receive the National Award for Civil Pakistan Sitara-i-Imtiaz in the field of Human Rights, March 23, 2002. [4] And because of his two decades-long international campaign to end child slavery in the Middle East as camel jockeys, Ansar Burney was declared a "Hero of trafficking in persons" in Trafficking in Persons 2005 State Department U.S..

He deserves respect for countries like Pakistan: Ansar Burney has a couple of Pakistanis, who have earned the respect between the mind of people around the world. He is involved in several attempts to get people to desperate circumstances.

Ansar Burney also played a key role to play for free Crue MV Suez pseudominded captivity by Somali pirates. He left no stone unturned to raise the ransom demanded by pirates. He is always willing to help people regardless of their caste, religion or Nationaliy. He has proven over and over again, that the document is truer when it comes to India - Pak relations. His efforts to help the release of Indian sailors is a very positive view of the hostility he faced in 2008 in favor of the scorching release of Indian prisoner Kashmir Singh, who is languishing on death row in Pakistani jails for 30 years. Current benevolent act to assist the release of Indian sailors high considering the value of praise shabby treatment that is reserved for him in June 2008, Government of India, when he was deported to New Delhi airport on the basis of inadequate documentation.

Sure, he has given an exemplary sentence "human touch" material

16. November 2007, Ansar Burney was sworn guardian of Pakistan's Federation for Human Rights. He is the first man to head the newly established Human Rights Council, the Ministry of Pakistan.

27. March 2008 he was elected for a term of three years as one of 18 members of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, and because "his acknowledged expertise in the field of human rights and of recognized competence and integrity, Burney received a large support from all regional groups of the Council. "

In 2008 he was included in a survey by the newspaper business as a favorite.

Friday, 5 August 2011

Asma Jahangir

Asma Jahangir
Asma Jilani Jahangir (urdu: عاصمہ جہانگیر) (born January 27, 1952 in Karachi) is a leading Pakistani lawyer, defender of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan and human rights activist who works both in Pakistan and internationally to prevent the persecution of religious minorities, women and child abuse.

It 'was the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief from August 2004 to July 2010 (first connected to the old Commission on Human Rights, now Human Rights Council). Previously, he served as UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, arbitrary, or arbitrary. He is also President of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

Abdul Sattar Edhi

Abdul Sattar Edhi
Abdul Sattar Edhi, NI (Urdu: عبد الستار ایدھی, Gujarati: અબ્દુલ સત્તાર ઇદી) or Edhi, as he often called, is a philanthropist of Pakistan. He is the head of the Edhi Foundation, a worldwide operator of ambulance services and help charity. With his wife, Bilquis Edhi, he was awarded the 1986 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service. He is also recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize and the Balzan Prize. Edhi is a Muslim community Memon. On September 22, 2010 Edhi received an honorary degree of Ph.D. at the University of Bedfordshire.

Edhi was born in 1928 in Gujarat Bantva India.His British family moving to Karachi, Pakistan in 1947 and in 1951 bought a small shop, where he opened a small pharmacy by a doctor who taught him basic medical care.

Edhi Foundation operates the world's largest outpatient services and acts as a free old-age homes, orphanages, hospitals, women's shelters, rehabilitation centers, drug addicts and the mentally ill individuals.It has run relief operations in Africa, the Middle East , the Caucasus, Eastern Europe and in the United States, where he helped to support the New Orleans after the hurricane of 2005.