Question: Recently who has been appointed as UNICEF’s newest global Goodwill Ambassador?
(a) Deepika Padukone
(b) Priyanka Chopra
(c) Novak Djokovic
(d) Katrina Kaif
Ans: (b)
Related facts:
- On 12 December 2016; bollywood Actress Priyanka Chopra, appointed as UNICEF’s newest global Goodwill Ambassador.
- Footballer David Beckham and 12-year-old British actress Millie Bobby Brown announced Chopra’s appointment as UNICEF’s newest global Goodwill Ambassador.
- It was announced at a star-studded celebration held on 12 December 2016 to commemorate UNICEF’s 70th anniversary.
- She urged people from across nations to become the ‘collective voice’ of oppressed children in the world and join forces to leave a better future for the coming generations.
- Priyanka Chopra was recently in news for his acting in American drama series “Quantico”.
- She will be seen making her international debut with the film “Baywatch”.
- The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is a United Nations (UN) programme headquartered in New York City that provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.
- It is one of the members of the United Nations Development Group and its executive committee.
- UNICEF was created by the United Nations General Assembly on 11 December 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II.
Reference:
http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/12/13/priyanka-chopra-appointed-as-unicefs-global-goodwill-ambassador/
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/priyanka-chopra-becomes-unicefs-global-goodwill-ambassador/articleshow/55956064.cms