"to leave Pakistan within 15 days, and the organisation's office in Islamabad was closed and padlocked. In 2014, Tony Blair was given Save the Children's Global Legacy Award by the leadership of the US arm of the charity at a gala dinner in New York. A furious protest letter condemning the award was signed by over 500 Save the Children staff, who said it was ""morally reprehensible"" and jeopardised the organisation's credibility. The episode raised questions about the links between those who had given the award and those close to Blair. In November 2015, Mail Online reported that Chief strategist"
"for 1985, the late Irish senator and peace campaigner Gordon Wilson for 1987, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev for 1988, the late South African president Nelson Mandela for 1989, former US president Bill Clinton for 2000, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani for 2001, John O’Shea, founder of the charity Goal for 2003, the late Pakistani president Benazir Bhutto for 2007, the late US Senator Edward Kennedy for 2009, Afghan human rights campaigner Dr Sima Samar for 2010, former Irish president, Mary McAleese and her husband, senator Martin McAleese for 2011, Pakistani activist for female education and youngest-ever Nobel Prize"
"British teenager Silhan Özçelik for trying to join the Kurdistan Workers Party. A previous supporter of the Stop the War Coalition, Tatchell and many other public personalities expressed concern with the coalition's allegedly unduly favourable view of Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria, and has called for the Labour leader and former Stop the War Chair Jeremy Corbyn not to attend the Coalition's Christmas fundraiser 2015. In December 2016, Tatchell and others disrupted Corbyn's speech on human rights on the basis that the Labour leader had responded insufficiently to the bombing of Aleppo and urged him to condemn Russian military intervention"
"award. Some past recipients have been: Danielle Mitterrand, former First Lady of France, in 1989 for her work with children in Third World countries. President George H. W. Bush in 1991 for his role in bringing peace and democracy to the Middle East during and after the Gulf War. King Juan Carlos I of Spain, 1991, for peacefully bringing democracy to his country. Laura Bush, 2002, for her career in bettering children’s education. Oprah Winfrey, 2007, for her global humanitarian efforts, and education of children. Nicolas Sarkozy, former French President, won the award in 2008 for renewing ties with WW2"
"him its first annual ""Misinformer of the Year"" award. After the September 11 attacks, O'Reilly accused the United Way of America and American Red Cross of failing to deliver millions of dollars in donated money, raised by the organizations in the name of the disaster, to the families of those killed in the attacks. He reported that the organizations misrepresented their intentions for the money being raised by not distributing all of the 9/11 relief fund to the victims. Actor George Clooney responded, accusing him of misstating facts and harming the relief effort by inciting ""panic"" among potential donors. On"
"Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown, and messages of support from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and actor Rainn Wilson. The petition aims to hold world leaders to account for the promise of universal primary education made in the Millennium Development Goals (MDG2). The petition mobilised support and campaigning from a wide variety of organisations and individuals. 2015 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi headlined the London launch event in November 2015. Other notable supporters and participants include his fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner, Malala Yousafzai, Justin Bieber, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Laura Carmichael, the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic"
"be chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in 2015. In 2017, there was a controversy when a state investigation found that he had donated $500,000 to the nonprofit Families for Excellent Schools, a charter school advocacy group that had been fined for hiding donors' identities in 2016, and which had been involved in a ballot question the year before. Sagan defended his decision to keep the donation private. The Massachusetts Teachers Association and some others called for Sagan to be fired from his chairmanship for the donation, but the Governor had defended Sagan. As of 2018,"
"heroes and the exceptional impact their actions have made on preserving human life and advancing humanitarian causes in the face of adversity. The co-chairman of the selection committee is the filmmaker and philanthropist George Clooney. The first co-chair of the selection committee was the Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, from March 2015 until his death in July 2016. The commission consists of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative co-founder Vartan Gregorian, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Leymah Gbowee, Shirin Ebadi and Óscar Arias, Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London Lord Ara Darzi, former UN High Commissioner"
"honor after Shimon Peres and Moshe Dayan. The list also includes former U.S. Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Livni referred to the Goldstone Report accusing Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza, and said there was a huge ethical gap between those seeking to murder children in their homes and those unintentionally harming civilians used by terrorists as human shields. Referring to the Israeli shelling of several UN schools in Gaza where thousands of civilians were taking shelter during the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict, Livni insisted that she ""regret(s) every civilian casualty, but what happened at the UN school was"
"rioting and arson attacks on government buildings"" and warned of possible sharp spikes in ""starvation and modern-day slavery"". It said that these concerns were ""not hypothetical, but based on a deep understanding of the socio-psychological background that these children operate within"". Yentob said this email ""was not intended in any way as a threat."" On 15 October 2015 Yentob and Batmangheldijh made a joint appearance before a parliamentary select committee investigating the charity's collapse. Their performance was widely described as disastrous. In the ""New Statesman"", the political commentator Anoosh Chakelian said they were a ""duo of epically proportioned egos"" who"
"doing so knowingly. Islam, who has repeatedly condemned terrorism and Islamic extremism, stated ""I have never knowingly supported or given money to Hamas"". ""At the time I was reported to have done it, I didn't know such a group existed. Some people give a political interpretation to charity. We were horrified at how people were suffering in the Holy Land."" However, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) added him to a ""watch list"" which provoked an international controversy and led the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to complain personally to the United States Secretary of State Colin Powell"
"Margaret Thatcher and Edward Said. The Foundation enables physically challenged young people to access better opportunities by awarding motorised vehicles. It was initiated with the support of corporate bodies and concerned individuals in 1992 and has helped over 2400 individuals access higher education and attain financial independence. On 22 August 2015 Rahul Gandhi awarded vehicles to 100 individuals from 20 states. The Interact scholarship program supports children affected by conflict across the country. After 2005, it included another 160 children affected by the tsunami in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands and Puducherry. As of 2016, the Foundation supports 2086 children"
"though she had promised to let the agency review new or significantly increased support from foreign governments."" Conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin opined that the Qatari gift ""raised ethical questions"" because of the nation's support for Hamas. The ethics agreement between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation that had been put into force at the beginning of Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State in 2009 came under scrutiny from the news media during February 2015 as polls showed her the likely 2016 Democratic nominee for president. The ""Wall Street Journal"" reported that the Clinton Foundation had resumed accepting donations"
"such as conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh and the Fox News cable channel and, as a result of this, the true role and value of the UN has become ""a mystery in Middle America"". These remarks resulted in a backlash from the White House and some US conservative commentators, culminating in a call for an apology by the US envoy to the United Nations John Bolton. Bolton added to reporters, ""I spoke to the secretary-general this morning, I said ""I've known you since 1989 and I'm telling you this is the worst mistake by a senior U.N. official that I"
"replacement therapy to prevent the birth of the children with incurable diseases such as muscular dystrophy. These diseases affect up to 1 in 6,500 babies which Leigh stated could lead to people being “harvested for their parts"" and a divide between what he referred to as ""the modified and the unmodified"". The Department for Health asserted no genetic modification is involved. In 2015, Leigh received the Légion d'honneur for his role as “a bridge between our parliaments, our governments and our societies”, as stated by H.E. Sylvie Bermann at his investiture. In March 2016 he joined three other Conservative backbench"
"mother's inheritance via a Swiss bank account. He was fined GBP£469,444 for it. He was the only Briton to be ""publicly identified"" for failing to declare taxes on his Swiss bank account prior to Swiss Leaks. This money had already been donated to a children's charity in 2008. Michael Shanly set up a charitable trust in 1997 to help members of society across a broad spectrum of worthy causes including the young, the elderly, those with a physical handicap, mental illness, injury or life limiting illness. In 2015, Michael Shanly was ranked 122nd in Britain’s top 200 donors. In 2017,"
"those who had ""the gift of faith"". Wogan's health declined following Christmas 2015. He did not present Children in Need, complaining of back pain as the reason for his absence from the long-running annual show. His friend, Father Brian D'Arcy, visited him during January, and noticed he was seriously ill. He died of cancer, aged 77, on 31 January 2016, at his home in Buckinghamshire. British Prime Minister David Cameron said that ""Britain has lost a huge talent"" and President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins praised Wogan's career and his frequent visits to his homeland. Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste"
"admit that it had, in previous years, engaged in self-dealing and illegal transfers of funds to ""disqualified persons"". This admission contradicts its filings for previous years, where there is no admission of the same violations. On June 14, 2018, the new New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood filed a civil lawsuit against the foundation, Trump himself, and Trump's three adult children, Ivanka, Eric, and Donald Jr. alleging that they had engaged in ""extensive unlawful political conduct"" and that Donald Trump had been using the foundation ""as his personal checkbook,"" to, among other things, settle his personal legal debts and support"
"recipient and scientist and founder-director of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), returned his award in 2015 in protest of the Dadri mob lynching and out of concern at the ""prevailing socio-politico situation"" in the country. The 2010 conferment on an Indian-American businessman Sant Singh Chatwal, who was awarded the Padma Bhushan in the field of Public Affairs, created much controversy. Known for his association with former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton, Chatwal pled guilty to violating the Federal Election Campaign Act and witness tampering during the United States presidential election, 2008. He was also"
"Leader Ed Miliband, Bill Clinton, French President François Hollande, former Mayor of Hebron Khaled Osaily and Palestinian Envoy to the UK Dr Manuel Houssassian. Three UK parliamentarians from each major political party are Goodwill Ambassadors – Louise Ellman MP, Toby Ellwood MP and Ed Davey MP. In 2012, one of the charity's Goodwill Ambassadors & Director of its Youth Ambassador Programme, Sally Becker carried the Olympic Flag into the stadium at the Opening Ceremony of London 2012, in Children of Peace's name. Currently there are 20 Youth Ambassadors, from Armenia, Israel, Palestine, Qatar, the UK and the United States. The"
"is also a global adviser to Orphans International. On August 27, 2015, Prince Albert apologized for Monaco's role in facilitating the deportation of a total of 90 Jews and resistance fighters, of whom only nine survived. ""We committed the irreparable in handing over to the neighboring authorities women, men, and a child who had taken refuge with us to escape the persecutions they had suffered in France,"" Albert said at a ceremony in which a monument to the victims was unveiled at the Monaco cemetery. ""In distress, they came specifically to take shelter with us, thinking they would find neutrality."""
"recognize these two women, Vellacott released a statement that referred to them as ""heroines of humanity"", and justified his decision by stating: ""It's a pretty upside down world when we honour abortionists like Henry Morgentaler for killing over 5,000 babies and imprison precious women, like Mary Wagner and Linda Gibbons, who try to save babies from such savagery. They are the real heroes of humanity!"" Vellacott's decision to bestow the Queen's Jubilee Medal on Gibbon and Wagner has been praised by pro-life groups such as the Campaign Life Coalition, and the Catholic Register. Interim Liberal leader Bob Rae criticized Vellacott's"
"the group's money was paid out to relatives of staff members, according to a secret government report leaked to the press in October 2015. In July 2017, Business Secretary Greg Clark has said he will bring proceedings against the former directors of Kids Company and have them banned from company directorships. In October 2015, Batmanghelidjh blamed the media and a civil service-led smear campaign for the demise of her charity and its ""exceptional value"". She later admitted that she had used what she called ""loving blackmail"" on politicians to obtain funding. John Podmore, a trustee at the Pilgrim Trust, an"
"12th annual Longford Lecture titled ""Ending Violence Against Women and Girls, and the Culture of Impunity: achieving the missing Millennium Development Goal target"", chaired by Jon Snow. Prior to the 2015 UK general election, she was one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas. For her international work on behalf of humanitarian causes, Jagger has earned numerous awards, including: Bianca also appeared in several movies and TV shows: Bianca Jagger Bianca Jagger (born Bianca Pérez-Mora Macías; 2 May 1945) is a Nicaraguan social and human rights advocate and a former actress. Jagger currently"
"Foundation stated that the donation had been made in error, and that the Foundation had intended for it to go not to Bondi's PAC but instead to an unrelated Kansas non-profit called Justice for All. When the controversy first arose in 2013, both the Bondi PAC and Donald Trump had defended the propriety of the political donation. On March 14, 2016, Bondi endorsed Trump in the Florida presidential primary, saying she has been friends with Trump ""for many years."" In June 2016, a spokesperson for Governor Rick Scott stated that the state's ethics commission is looking into the matter. In"
"through the humanitarian aid efforts. If and when it is found that aid is doing more harm than good, then that aid needs to be evaluated and stopped by the organization. Thanks to an increase in “celebrity humanitarianism” a phenomenon that has arisen in the past few decades, many celebrities are now seen as global Samaritans, political activists, and celebrity diplomats. Some of the most popular spokespersons on behalf of Africa include many famed celebrities such as Robert (Bob) Geldof and Bono (Paul David Hewson) along with Angelina Jolie and George Clooney. The debate surrounding “celebrity humanitarianism” is very controversial"
"to call on the public “who have children’s welfare at heart, to consider carefully who they support when making consumer choices”. In July 2011, former UNICEF Ireland executive director Melanie Verwoerd said she was “deeply shocked” to have been sacked from the charity because of the publicity surrounding her relationship with Gerry Ryan. Three top Hollywood stars Liam Neeson, Vanessa Redgrave and Roger Moore expressed their sadness over the dismissal. However, all three Goodwill Ambassadors are continuing to support UNICEF. Peter Power, a former Fianna Fáil minister for Overseas Development, was appointed Executive Director in December 2011.<ref>RTE News: Former FF"
"scandal in the UK, Garrard withdrew his nomination for a peerage. The loan was extended, and Gerrard eventually called for it to be repaid in 2015, in a reaction against the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party. In 2013, Garrard hosted a visit to Israel by eleven Labour MPs, including shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy, shadow defence minister Gemma Doyle, Labour Friends of Israel chair Anne McGuire and vice-chair Louise Ellman. He also sponsored Labour Friends of Israel meetings, including a speech by Labour leader Ed Miliband. In 2014, Garrard donated £500,000 to the Labour party,"
"Becker (the 'Angel of Mostar') and Members of Parliament from main UK parliamentary parties – Louise Ellman (Labour) and Tobias Ellwood (Conservative). In 2010 a cross-party EDM was approved by the UK Parliament in support of Children of Peace. During the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, the charity was honoured internationally when Sally Becker, Goodwill Ambassador to Children of Peace, carried the Olympic Flag into the stadium with other luminaries, including Muhammad Ali and Ban Ki-moon. In 2012 the charity brought over to the UK an Israeli-Palestinian girls’ peace choir – the Shani Choir - that opened the"
"""Do the KIND Thing"". In 2015 President Barack Obama and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker named him a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship (PAGE). In 2015, Daniel and KIND Snacks created the KIND Foundation. Its signature initiative, Empatico, is a video-conferencing and digital learning platform that connects classrooms around the world designed to help kids explore their similarities and differences and expand their world views. In 2017, Daniel launched a public advocacy organization called Feed the Truth to counteract the food industry's influence on food policy and public health. He pledged $25 million to fund the organization. Koshland Fellowship 100 Global"
"2015, an accolade that has been bestowed on such diverse activists as Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai, Harry Belafonte, Václav Havel, Joan Baez, Ai Wei Wei, Peter Gabriel and U2. The Ambassador of Conscience Award was inspired by Irish poet Seamus Heaney, a great Amnesty supporter for over 30 years. Heaney dedicated a poem to Amnesty titled ""From the Republic of Conscience"" in 1985. Since 2012 Shipsey conceived and commissioned thirteen monumental memorial tapestries (funded in the main by artist supporters of Amnesty International including Bono and Edge of U2, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Yoko Ono, Paul Simon and John Legend) honouring,"
"years to introduce the technology. Prior to the 2015 general election, he was one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas. Jeremy Leggett Jeremy Leggett (born 1954) is a British social entrepreneur and writer. He founded and is a director of Solarcentury, an international solar solutions company (1997–present), and founded and is chair of SolarAid, a charity funded with 5% of Solarcentury’s annual profits that builds solar lighting markets in Africa (2006 – present). He is winner of the first Hillary Laureate for International Leadership in Climate Change (2009), a Gothenburg Prize (2015),"
"and civil rights activist Sacheen Littlefeather to read a 15-page speech detailing his criticisms. At the 2017 awards ceremony, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway mistakenly announced that ""La La Land"" was the Best Picture award recipient, instead of ""Moonlight"", the actual winner. Beatty had been given the wrong envelope and after hesitating during the announcement, handed the envelope to Dunaway, which listed Emma Stone as Best Actress for ""La La Land"" and led to the confusion. The proper winner was announced after the acceptance speeches by ""La La Land"" producers Jordan Horowitz, Marc Platt and Fred Berger. The following year,"