Nicole Kidman Campaigns To Stop Violence Against Women
With two children and another one due with husband Keith Urban, Nicole Kidman is driven to ending violence against women everywhere in the world.
"Obviously, I'm emotionally connected to this," Kidman 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."
Kidman, 40, a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Development Fund for Women (since 2006), spoke passionately about the need to curb violence against women – which she called the "most widespread human rights violation of our time."
Though U.N. statistics show that some progress is being made (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), 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?"
Nicole Kidman and her hubby Keith Urban are moving to Tinsel Town . Kidman and Urban just bought a $7 million dollar mansion in Brentwood , CA.
Kidman used to live in Brentwood during her Tom Cruise days but sold her estate back in 2004 for over $10 mil. The paparazzi's should consider already putting up some tents up in front of her house if they're planning on getting those baby money shots.
