Nicole Kidman is campaigning to stop violence against women.
“Obviously, I’m emotionally connected to this,” Kidman, 40, said of her commitment during a press conference Tuesday at United Nations headquarters in New York. “I’m a mother. I have a child on the way. A lot of it is realizing the things that are wrong and [pondering] how can I contribute to help my children have a better life?”
The actress, who has 2 adopted children with ex-husband Tom Cruise, and is expecting her first child with husband Keith Urban later this year, has been a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Development Fund for Women since 2006. She spoke passionately about the need to curb violence against women – which she called the “most widespread human rights violation of our time.”
Though 89 countries have laws on domestic violence, more than 100 have made rape a crime, 90 have provisions against sexual harassment, and 93 on human trafficking, U.N. statistics show that some progress is being made, and Kidman noted that “one in three women will encounter violence in some way, shape or form against them in their lifetime.”
She added, “That’s an extraordinary statistic. Yet do we ever hear it?”
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