Quickly after changing into a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1988, she went on a mission to Ethiopia, the place years of drought and civil strife had brought on horrible famine.
After visiting UNICEF emergency operations, she talked concerning the initiatives to media in america, Canada and Europe over a number of weeks, giving as many as 15 interviews a day.
In December 1954, a UN Basic Meeting resolution known as on the world to institute a Universal Children’s Day. Twenty-five years later, world leaders adopted the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Upon its adoption in 1989, Ms. Hepburn gave a passionate speech, emphasizing that “the kid shall, in all circumstances, be among the many first to obtain safety and reduction in occasions of emergency and catastrophe.”
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Audrey Hepburn, one in all UNICEF’s most beloved Goodwill Ambassadors, holds a toddler at a feeding centre in Baidoa, Somalia, in 1992.
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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Audrey Hepburn smiles as she carries a toddler on her again within the northern city of Mehal Meda in Shoa province, Ethiopia.
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