Aishwarya Rai Social and humanitarian work
What humanitarian work has she been part of?
What humanitarian work has Aishwarya Rai been part of?
In 1999 Rai participated in a world tour called the Magnificent Five, along with Aamir Khan, Rani Mukerji, Akshaye Khanna and Twinkle Khanna. In the same year, she was appointed as Longines Ambassador of Elegance. In 2003, she became the first Indian actress to be a jury member at the Cannes Film Festival. In the same year she became a global brand ambassador of L'Oreal, alongside Andie MacDowell, Eva Longoria and Penelope Cruz. Rai is the brand ambassador for The Eye Bank Association of India's nationwide campaign to promote eye donation in India. In 2005, she became a brand ambassador for Pulse Polio, a campaign established by the Government of India in 1994 to eradicate polio in India. In the same year, Rai was appointed spokesperson for the International Year of Microcredit, raising awareness of the main goals and priorities of the United Nations' poverty alleviation efforts.  In February 2005 Rai performed with other Bollywood stars at the HELP! Telethon Concert, an event to raise money for the victims of the 2004 tsunami earthquake. Along with other members of the Bachchan family, she laid the foundation of a special school for underprivileged girls in Daulatpur village in Uttar Pradesh in 2008. Construction is being funded by the Bachchan family and the school will be named after Rai. She appeared along with various other Bollywood actors at the closing ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. The performance showcased Indian culture as a lead-up to India hosting the 2010 Commonwealth Games.  Rai is a UN Microcredit Spokesperson. She supports PETA India. She pledged to donate her eyes to the Eye Bank Association of India and appeared in a public awareness film on eye donation. In November 2004, Rai created the Aishwarya Rai Foundation to help needy people in India. In 2009 Rai was appointed as the first Goodwill Ambassador of Smile Train, an international charity that provides free Cleft lip and palate surgery to children in need. Her work with Smile Train will focus not only on India, but on 76 different developing countries around the world. In September 2012, Rai had joined United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and renowned Hollywood actor Michael Douglas at a ceremony to commemorate the International Day of Peace in New York. Later that week, she was appointed as the new international Goodwill Ambassador for UNAIDS, the joint United Nations programme on AIDS and HIV. She will raise global awareness on protecting children from HIV infection and increasing access to antiretroviral treatment. CANNOTANSWER
In 2003, she became the first Indian actress to be a jury member at the Cannes Film Festival.
Jane Barry (born 15 September 1966, Boston, USA) is an international women's rights author and principal at Linksbridge living on Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA.

Personal details
Jane is married and has two daughters, Juliette and Alyssa.

Early career
Barry studied Soviet Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA before moving to California and working on Soviet-American co-operation issues as part of the emerging citizen diplomacy movement, with organisations including the Esalen Institute Soviet-American Exchange Program; just as the Iron Curtain began to fall.

She worked in the former Soviet Union between 1989 and 1994, taking part in counter-demonstrations to the attempted 1991 coup d'etat against Mikhail Gorbachev and in support of democracy; being one of the first foreigners to join the human shield outside the Moscow White House.

Humanitarian work
In 1991, she joined CARE USA, working in Russia on HIV/AIDS issues  and other former Soviet republics including Tajikistan and Georgia during their break-away conflicts.

In 1995, CARE USA posted her to Rwanda to work in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

From 1995 to 1998, Barry worked in Bosnia and Liberia for CARE  before leaving the organisation to become an independent consultant.

Policy work and women's rights
In her more recent career, she has worked in Côte d'Ivoire, Iraq, Sierra Leone, Chechnya, Kosovo, and South Africa for Save the Children UK,Help Age International, the UK Department for International Development, and the Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights.

Barry's written work has been translated into Albanian, French, Nepali, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhala, Spanish and Tamil, is required reading at Fordham University Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs. She has been described by anti-war movement Women in Black as an "homage to women activists who are engaged throughout the world: from Europe across Africa and Asia to Latin America".

Since 2008, Jane Barry has worked as a principal at the Seattle office of the consulting firm Linksbridge.

Publications
Jane Barry's recent published works include:
A Bridge Too Far: Aid Agencies and the Military in Humanitarian Response (2002) 
Rising up in Response (2005)
What's the Point of the Revolution if We Can't Dance? (2007)
Insiste, Persiste, Resiste, Existe (2008)

References

External links
Commentary on and reviews of Jane Barry's writing
Giving voice to silent emergencies
Voices of Solidarity : International Women Activists Share their Perspective on the Katrina Disaster
Kosovar Women's Voice
The Rory Peck Trust Free Lens
PeaceWomen
Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
UN Non-governmental Liaison Service
The New Humanitarians: A Review of Trends in International Humanitarian Action

1966 births
Living people
American humanitarians
Women humanitarians
American women writers
People from Bainbridge Island, Washington
21st-century American women Tamara Vučić (; ; born 11 April 1981) is the wife of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić.

Biography 
She was born in Belgrade. She grew up in Loznica, where she finished primary and high school. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade.

After a career as a television journalist, she chose diplomacy for her profession and has been working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia since 2010. She graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She speaks English and French.

She is involved in humanitarian work and often attends humanitarian events. She is dedicated to humanitarian activities, with a special focus on the welfare of children and the importance of early development. 

She is the wife of Aleksandar Vučić, the president of Serbia since December 2013. She has not been involved in her husband’s political campaign. In June 2017, she gave birth to her son, Vukan.

References

External links 
 Телеграф: Супруга Александра Вучића на пријему
 Недељник Афера: Ово је нова прва дама Србије
 Блиц: ТАМАРА ВУЧИЋ СА СУПРУГОМ ЈАПАНСКОГ ПРЕМИЈЕРА Донација од 80.000 евра Институту за мајку и дете
 Блиц: ПОСЕТА КАЛЕМЕГДАНУ И ИНСТИТУТУ ЗА МАЈКУ И ДЕТЕ Како је изгледало дружење првих дама Србије и Турске током посете Ердогана
 Story: Тамари Вучић уручено признање за изузетан допринос унапређењу положаја особа са ПАХ и несебичном залагању за спасавање људских живота!
 Хелоу магазин: Ексклузивни интервју Тамаре Вучић за нови ХЕЛЛО!

Living people
1981 births
University of Belgrade alumni
First Ladies of Serbia
Television people from Belgrade
People from Loznica
Diplomats from Belgrade Leslie Shanks M.D. is a Canadian medical doctor who served as the president of Médecins Sans Frontières Canada, the medical director of MSF Netherlands, and who led humanitarian responses in Yugoslavia, Zaire and Sudan.

Education 
Shanks graduated from Queen's University in 1988.

Career

Employment 
Shanks career started with work in northern parts of Canada providing healthcare to Indigenous communities.

She joined Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in 1994 and was sent to Yugoslavia to lead humanitarian health responses the Bosnia War. She subsequently led MSF's response in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) supporting refugees fleeing the Rwandan genocide, later managing a tuberculosis program in Sudan. After her field work, she became the Medical Director of MSF's Operational Centre in Amsterdam where she was part of a group that shifted MSF towards open sharing of medical data.

She has worked as the Medical Director at both the Sherbourne Health Centre in Toronto providing care to trans patients, and also at Inner City Health Associates, the Toronto organization that provides care to people experiencing homelessness.

Advocacy 
Shanks been critical of the United States military, specifically their role in the Kunduz hospital airstrike, and has participated in public awareness campaigns highlighting the plight of refugees.

Selected publications 

 Leslie Shanks, To err is humanitarian, BMJ, 2013.
 Shanks L, Klarkowski D, O'Brien DP. False positive HIV diagnoses in resource limited settings: operational lessons learned for HIV programmes. Plos one. 2013 ;8(3):e59906. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059906. PMID 23527284; PMCID: PMC3603939.
 Shanks L, Ariti C, Siddiqui MR, Pintaldi G, Venis S, de Jong K, Denault M. Counselling in humanitarian settings: a retrospective analysis of 18 individual-focused non-specialised counselling programmes. Con,fl Health. 2013 Sep 16;7(1):19. doi: 10.1186/1752-1505-7-19. PMID 24041036; PMCID: PMC3849884.
 Leslie Shanks, Michael J. Schull, Rape in war: the humanitarian response, CMAJ Oct 2000, 163 (9) 1152-1156;
DE LANGE, RINK, et al. “Keeping It Simple: A Gender-Specific Sanitation Tool for Emergencies.” Waterlines, vol. 33, no. 1, Practical Action Publishing, 2014, pp. 45–54, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24687555.

References 

Médecins Sans Frontières
Queen's University at Kingston alumni
Canadian humanitarians
Canadian public health doctors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)