Close X
Thursday, January 16, 2025
ADVT 
Bollywood

Unicef To Honour Priyanka With Humanitarian Award

Darpan News Desk IANS, 12 Jun, 2019 08:06 PM
  • Unicef To Honour Priyanka With Humanitarian Award

Unicef will honour Indian actress Priyanka Chopra with the Danny Kaye Humanitarian Award at the Unicef Snowflake Ball in December.

 

Priyanka, a global Unicef Goodwill Ambassador for Child Rights, took to Twitter and wrote: "So humbled. Thank you Unicef for honouring me with the Danny Kaye Humanitarian Award at the Unicef Snowflake Ball in December."

 

The event will be held on December 3 in New York.

 

The 36-year-old says her work for Unicef means everything to her.

 
 
 
 

"My work with Unicef on behalf of all the world's children means everything to me. Here's to peace, freedom and the right to education," she added.

 

Priyanka has worked with Unicef since 2006 and was appointed the national and global Unicef Goodwill Ambassador for Child Rights in 2010 and 2016, respectively. She promotes various causes such as environment, health and education, and women's rights and is particularly vocal about gender equality and feminism.

 

On the acting front, the "Isn't It Romantic" actress has wrapped up shooting for Shonali Bose's "The Sky Is Pink" with Farhan Akhtar.

MORE Bollywood ARTICLES

Urvashi Rautela Appalled By Video Claiming Boney Kapoor Touched Her Inappropriately, Calls Him ‘A True Gentleman'

What could have been an innocent move has landed Boney Kapoor in the midst of a controversy.    

Urvashi Rautela Appalled By Video Claiming Boney Kapoor Touched Her Inappropriately, Calls Him ‘A True Gentleman'

Sonam Kapoor To Share Style Secrets Via Web Series

She has always raised the fashion bar with her sartorial sense, and now actress Sonam Kapoor Ahuja is set to unravel some of her style secrets in an upcoming web series.

Sonam Kapoor To Share Style Secrets Via Web Series

Inaaya Very Naughty, Active Kid: Soha Ali Khan

Soha said this on Monday while interacting with the media here at the launch of Classmate Spell Bee Season 11.    

Inaaya Very Naughty, Active Kid: Soha Ali Khan

Arjun Kapoor Wants To Do More Intense Stories

Arjun Kapoor Wants To Do More Intense Stories
Actor Arjun Kapoor wants to do more intense films and says he would love to portray myriad characters like a con, gangster and a father on screen.

Arjun Kapoor Wants To Do More Intense Stories

Wait And Watch: Madhu Mantena Promises Surprises

Producer Madhu Mantena has been lying low for almost a year now, after his production house Phantom Films got dissolved.

Wait And Watch: Madhu Mantena Promises Surprises

Sabbatical From Fiction TV Wasn't Planned: Aashka

Sabbatical From Fiction TV Wasn't Planned: Aashka
Actress Aashka Goradia, who was juggling between hosting and her beauty business, says taking a two-year break from fiction shows wasn't a planned move.    

Sabbatical From Fiction TV Wasn't Planned: Aashka