Nicole Kidman Quotes
I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.
Kidman, Nicole. Testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee. United States House of Representatives, 21 Oct. 2009.
The action referred to the President’s Executive Order Banning U. S. funds going to any organization which distributes information about abortion even if they pay for it with their own funds. Such an action in the United States would have been unconstitutional but foreigners are not entitled to Constitutional protection unless they are in the United States.
In contemporary Iran, no one has any freedom in the International and Western sense of freedom. There is no freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom to travel, freedom of the press, freedom of dress, or other fundamental freedoms of not only the West but the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. However, within those restrictions, women tend to be treated more equally than in other Islamic Middle Eastern nations. Not completely equal as they have many additional restrictions that males do not have, but they can work, freely, teach and hold some positions of responsibility and power which women may not do in much of the Islamic world.
At the time and for the next decade she was one of the few world leaders who made women’s equality and rights a major priority. But slowly American and European women and many men began to give higher priority to using foreign policy and foreign aid. Then women from Asia and Africa began to take up the issue and in the early 21st century even some women in the Islamic nations began to fight for women’s rights. Mrs. Roosevelt. However, was the first modern major and high visibility politician to make women’s rights a major international and national issue.
Nicole Mary Kidman AC is an American-Australian actress, producer and singer. She has received an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. She was ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses in 2006, 2018, and 2019. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2004 and again in 2018. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her fifth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century up to that point.
