2014 Theme: Empowering Adolescent Girls: Enging the Cycle of Violence UN.org

Launched in 2008, the United Nations Secretary-General’s UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign aims to raise public awareness and increase political will and resources for preventing and ending all forms of violence against women and girls in all parts of the world.
The global vision of the UNiTE campaign is a world free from violence against all women and girls. This vision can only be realized through meaningful actions and ongoing political commitments of national governments, backed by adequate resources.

Malala Yousafzai Shares Nobel Peace Prize

On Friday Malala Yousafzai became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, sharing the honor with India’s Kailash Satyarthi, who has dedicated himself to fighting child slavery in India for decades.

Malala has amazed millions of Westerners as an articulate survivor of the attempts of Pakistan’s Taliban to kill her. A vocal advocate for girls education who already had a blog on the BBC website, Malala was shot in the head by the Taliban, who commandeered her school bus. Not only did Malala Yousafzai defy all odds of surviving with her brain intact, she has achieved global rock star status as a change advocate for children.

The NYTimes writes an in-depth article on Malala’s life in Birmingham, England — a place she finds to be very cold and uninviting. AOC shares our writing on her journey to the Nobel Prize, and we will update readers on the severe criticism that Malala experiences in much of Pakistan.

Many perceive Malala as a tool of the West. Pakistan’s newspaper The Dawn conducted an online conversation with 160 Pakistani-Americans to get their views in Celebrating Malala: What Pakistani-Americans have to say.

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Pakistan Nearly Bans ‘I Am Malala’ As The Teen Stands For Educating Girls Everywhere Sensual Rebel

Malala Yousafzai Returns to School | ‘Lean In’ or Be A Retro Wife? Asks New York Magazine Sensual Rebel

M alala Yousafzai Calls on World Leaders To Educate Children As Part of UN Malala Day 16th Birthday CelebrationSensual Rebel

UN Launches October 11 International Day of the Girl As Malala Yousafzai Fights For Her Life In PakistanSensual Rebel

Pakistan Taliban Vow To Shoot 14-Year Old Malala Yousafzai Again If She Survives Close Range Head WoundSensual Rebel

Angelina Jolie Honored With DCMG By Queen Elizabeth For Work To Stop Violence Against WomenAOC Salon

Anne of Carversville’sfounding muse Angelina Jolie received a wonderful honor at Buckingham Palace today, making her the consummate Smart Sensuality woman — smart, sexy and with great heart.

Queen Elizabeth awarded Jolie the Insignia of an Honorary Dame Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George. “The DCMG honour is in recognition of her campaigning against rape in war zones and services to UK foreign policy,” writes the Daily Mail.

Jolie’s long-standing campaign for women culminated in a landmark international G8 summit held in London in April 2011, in which Jolie joined British Foreign Secretary William Hague (pictured with Jolie and husband Brad Pitt below) Listen to Jolie’s speech here.

Smart Sensuality Angelina Jolie: Virtue Considered in Carversville’s Country Air AOC Values

The air in Carversville is so clear, the light so luminous, that church bells penetrate the air from miles away. The sound is more penetrating to my ears than in Florence. Why is it that I fall deeply into considerations of the meaning of everyday life, immersed in the sensory delight of this lush landscape?

I drink my double espresso, reading Tom Junod’s thought-provoking article about Angelina Jolie in July Esquire. The topic is virtue … hers and ours … and the meaning of 9/11 in our celebrity-struck, American lives, over five years later.

Life at the Scene of the Crime

Jolie has worked tirelessly since 9/11 to make a difference. Have I?

Jolie intersects with Mariane Pearl in the new movie “A Mighty Heart”, the story of Pearl’s husband Danny’s death in Pakistan. Bound by Jolie’s portrayal of Mariane Pearl, the two women believe that “the real story of Daniel Pearl’s death lies in the coming together of good people to fight evil, rather than evil guys coming together to destroy good. The movie “A Mighty Heart” celebrates the fact that some people are just better.”

Reflections on Danny Pearl, Kidnapped & Beheaded By Terrorists

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Later, when we lived in Mumbai, India, where he worked as the South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, Danny and I pursued the conversation, just the two of us. In fact, it became the cement of our relationship and it made us fall even more in love with each other. Here we were, a Jewish-American boy with his Western Buddhist wife in a Hindu country at odds with its Muslim population and neighboring states. Everyone had their own partial but often valid verities which came to clash with other partial but valid realities, depending on perspectives. It is Danny who found our way out: “Ethics is my religion,” he said. And on we went.