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Jude Law promotes Peace Day at the UNAMA office in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan (UNAMA = United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan).
The 35-year-old British actor, along with British filmmaker Jeremy Gilley, returned to Afghanistan after their successful mission last year. Once again, in conjunction with UNICEF and UNAMA, they made a ‘call to action’ 21 days before Peace Day, September 21st, an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence, in order to galvanize the people of Afghanistan to observe the Day.
“The extraordinary events in Afghanistan around Peace Day last year set an important precedent. Jeremy and I are returning to the country this year to help keep the momentum going,” said Jude. “As an ambassador for Peace One Day and as a filmmaker myself, I hope that my involvement will help the project to grow. I’m proud to be part of it.”
He added, “When I left Kabul last year, I was hugely moved not by the conflict that I have read so much about, but by the people’s courage and the people’s sense of hope. It seemed that they really want to make this day, the Peace Day, work. And they did. People recognize the day, because they recognize that lives could be saved.”
To watch the video of Jude and Jeremy being interviewed, visit SkyNews.com. To listen to another interview of the pair, visit BBC.co.uk.
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he used to be really hot. not so much anymore… but I’m glad he’s doing something meaningful
This is really sweet.
Good on him he really does give back.
but until then-
MIRANDA COSGROVE ON JJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well to start I’d say that this is an OK initiative…
YET is it meaningful in any way???
What exactly are they putting their effort in? Are they trying to promote a cease fire? are they trying to send a massage for peace???
Where?? Anyone you has follwed at least part of what has happened and still happening in Avganistan knows that this is, and I am sorry to say, just PR for the benefit obviously more of Geremy Gilley and less so yet also of Jude Law.
Where did they go to spread the message?? There is total chaos in the country, there are guerilla fighters, no communication networks- even owing a TV set is a crime!!
So what are they really doing there? To make a meaningless speach to a handful of people gathered up by their trip organissers?? And have live links with BBC and other westen media!! They wenlt all the way there to be heard in the UK ???
Cause no one listened in Avganistan I can tell you!!
And even if they had the tecknical means to listen - what difference would it make?? Come on both guys need some backroung reading on the real issues and situation down there and if they actually wanted to do something they could call on their famous friends and gather money to do something practical!! Not speeches and live links!!
They went filming around- so what? We have seen footage and we know how it is!! it doesnt take ageniou to understand the county’s state after the war left chaos behind!!
I would love to see that they made some sort of a difference but I can only come to the conclusion that they are in it for the publicity, especially the director because I suppose Jude doesn’t really need it unless it is some PR imagemaking new turn!
He looks like the type of guy I go to AA meetings to pick up. Dirty, sweaty hot drunks.
Hello perfect man!
Natalie Smith - I’m glad you think a recognised world peace day is an ‘OK’ initiative….
How about you in turn do some ‘background reading’ and all your questions will be answered……before stating your uneducated negative rubbish.
To three…
……You totally swept me out with YOUR ARGUMENTS…..it hurt!
If I am uneducated and need to do some reading than you surely lack IQ dear!!! But you cannot do anything about that!! Sorry!
@ Natalie Smith
OK Initiative?! Excuse me?!
Do you know, that in 21th September 2001, the member of UN, adopted the first-ever annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence, or so called Peace Day.
Jeremy Gilley , my dear, and not Geremy, started this action. In 1999 he tried to establish the first-ever Peace Day with a fixed date on the calender.
A question, or better, some questions. Do you ever know that there is a website: http://peaceoneday.org/ exists? It doesn’t hurt you if you just click this links and read.
Do you know, that this is the second time that Jude and Jeremy went to Afganisthan? Promoting peace will make sense, if they know what they talk about, seeing the conditions with their own eyes. They risked their life by going to the most dangerous place for the moment, to educate some people who refuse to know about anything except their surrounding, and you call it “PR benefit?” The benefit of peace, is not only for soldiers who are there (I hope your brother/sister are not there, because if they knew what you wrote, they would be extremely thankful), but also children, women, and old people who can not defend themselves, and become only victims.
By the way, it is message , and not massage . Of course, I will give Jude gladly and willingly massage, but that’s not what he did in Afganisthan (and not Avganisthan )
You want to know what they did, are doing, and will do in Afganisthan? Look for information yourself, click the links, and stay away from OK magazine. May be you will have ideas on how to promote peace.
And the britney spears, katie holmes, victoria beckam things seems to be SO insignificant compare to that….
RIP to all the soldiers (Americans, Frenchs, Canadians, Germans, Englishs, Polishs and much more..) and civilians.
Dear rien,
Thanks for pointing out my spelling mistakes but perhaps you should take into account that I am not a native English speaker and I am blind system typing in my native + 3 foreign languages so I think I didn’t do that bad! What do you say???
To the point..
Here are my answers:
Yes I know about 21st of Sep and the site (yet I had never heard of the director, who’s name I cannot spell, before).
Yet there are all sorts of international days established by the UN about almost everything- it is not as big a deal as you think!!!
DID I SAY IT IS A BAD THING? - I THINK NOT!
I merely pointed out that in self this doesn’t mean much if nothing practical comes out of it!!!!
I know it is the second time they went to Afghanistan! I couldn’t have missed it THEY KEEP REPEATING IT–
AND YOUR SPEECH ABOUT PEACE I AM THERE WITH YOU BUT CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME WHAT IS THE PRACTICAL BENEFIT OF THIS INITIATIVE FINALLY?? I KEEP MISSING IT OR IS IT THAT YOU HAVEN’T BROUGHT IT UP??
All theories about how nice peace is…
That’s no news..the hard part is to really do something and that takes much more than nice words!!!!
By the way I don’t read OK
Jude is gorgeous, but that is not the important thing here. He is definitly my kind of man in so many ways.
He looks like mojahed, and the shirt is in vogue among eastern men.
Of course, I’m kidding, but this is a very masculine and mature, juicy look, omg.
What a great Hamlet he will be looking like that, so testosteronic, so manly adult, so unlike his boyish looks in Wilde, for instance. :))
He’s so different and special in all his appearances and really I like them all.
Natalie Smith
Why don’t you read the site with attention and without prejudice?
You will fing a lot of interesting facts that will answer your questions.
For example:
“In 2007 according to the UN, over 100 million people were active on Peace Day, in 192 countries. There were life-saving initiatives in 14 countries and over 80 activities in Afghanistan alone where 1.4 million children were vaccinated against polio.”
You were crying for something practical, here you go.
STFU Nanny f”"”"ker. Nobody cares what you think
@ Natalie Smith
English is not my mother tongue, either. But surely you know the difference between “message” and “massage”. And if you read carefully what Jared wrote there, you would find “Afganisthan” early enough.
The practical benefit of this action, in a short term, to make people -who read political magazine, or serious newspaper, who watched News Chanel (like CNN) - will be more aware of how serious the situation in Afganisthan is. And maybe they will work harder to solve the problems there. Of course, people - or sadly youngsters- who are busier to read gossip “news” will care a shite about it. That’s exactly the point. To reach youngsters, to make them aware that there is another world than only fit and fun.
For the children and women who live in danger, daily, at least, if this action gains results, they can also have a luxury in their life. Safety. A feeling that is taken advantage by us, is a luxury for them. And, Jeremy and Jude can carry their voice to the other part of the world. Somebody listened to their feelings, try to understand their fear, may be also brought medicine along. Somebody who comes for them, without being asked.
In the long terms, I am a dreamer, I dream the world can lay down the gun for a day. Because who knows, if we get used to a non-violence act in a day, we will get used to a non-violence act in a week, a month, a year…
What do you think the Children of Kabul will feel? To be able to run around without having fear that a mine explodes exactly under their feet? Don’t you think that they have the rights exactly like the children in your neighbourhood, just to lick an ice cream, and laugh? Instead of witnessing their mothers to be killed, they could witness their mothers fry French Fries or simply taking them to school?
And the soldiers will not die for nothing.
We should listen to the message and not to the messenger. It is a sign of an open mind.
holly
everybody cares, even you.
As to the rest of you post - well, yep, he’s a sexiest man alive, no doubt. :))
I’m sure that’s going to make all the warlords stop in their tracks. SUr
I’m sure that’s going to make all the warlords and the warring Afghani factions stop in their tracks. I mean, if Jude Law says to observe the day!
Thanks Jared!!!!
Andrea,
I believe that you were not serious with your comments, were you?
You know that this message is not for them. It is for us. We are the ones who have the obligation to create peace.
Thirty years of non-peace kind of life for the Children of Afganisthan. And you made such a naive comment like this? You must have been missing classes in your school!
I think jude must be very excited with this campaign “peace one day” and i hope that this project goes far beyond what’s expected , because we can’t just turn our backs to the world and accept the fact of seeing million children out of school and people going hungy .. and we definitely don’t wanna see more tragedies …
They certainly are doing a good job promoting world peace.
I’m so proud of jude ! I love him ♥
“make love, don’t make war”
*All for education.
THis is a message for all you cynics who do not believe that a man
who is involved in a make-believe world by profession can so clearly see the real world. Read the things Jude has said about what he has
seen in Afghanistan and read them with an open mind. He is there
because he is brave and saw a chance to do something meaningful along the lines of what an old friend had started and was slowly trying to acheive. Rome was not built in a day and Peace will not come in a day but it will be built little by .ittle and some day we willbe able to depose all the dictators of the world and make earth safefor the children and the generations to come. Bringing the mothers
and children for vaccination is a way to get to them to help them and
give them the courage to continue to fight the extremeists that devalue
their life. Your attitude Natalie will get you nowhere but Jude’s attitude
is another few steps down the road to peace, his goal and the goal
of all of us for the future of mankind.
Why, oh why, must people jump in to talk before reading all the facts and fully understanding the situation. If you want to say I hope that his effort will be successful but I don’t kinow what one man can do,I would understand.l believe that with concentrated effort one man
can have a very important impact on the world. I’m sure he couold put
this timje to more productive commercial use but i do not believe there
is a better cause to espouse at the mojment than worldwide peace and this began with a little step and keeps getting bigger each year.
I hope anhd pray it will one day drown out the voices of disaster and
brihng us that peace we so desperately need and desire.
Some poeple who singlehandedly had a big infoluence on the world -
Gandhi, Mother Teresa, etc. that’s the good ones ,I think you can figure out the bad ones yourself.
Thank you rien for being patient and answering her tirade - your
eloquence always amazes me and makes me say thanks but then I
know how we both feel about this situation. BRAVO JUDE.
@ Rien, welcome back :)
Jude is not risking his life for nothing, he trully believes in the project, it is stupid to think he’s making this just to have an imagemaking new turn by his PR team maneuvers, he’s trying to do his bit to get a better world by having more peace in this crazy, messy world.. and Afganishtan is obviously a hell, in which a children’s life is less than nothing. Bravo, Jude¡¡¡ Your contribution to the Peace One Day, conceived by Jeremy is very much appreciated. Rien, you are 100% and Natalie 3, don’t critize that much those kind of initiatives, instead of it, try to be proactive and support POD.
#6 three
ROFLMAO!!! Good on you — tell it like it is. I get so sick of people trashing anyone trying to do some good in the world. If you have a recognizable face and the money to do so, why not go somewhere to learn about something firsthand and be able to speak about it, using your ability to get the press interested in you.
Instead of making sure they take pictures of you shopping, or spending money on thousand-dollar kids’ dresses, do something with your privilege!! Anyone who trashes that is a bitter, mean-spirited, uneducated crank sucking from society rather than giving. Or jealous that someone else is giving and getting “credit” for it rather than they — which leads to just why are they doing it in the first place?
GO JUDE!!!
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