Jude Law says: give peace a chance
Jude Law says: give peace a chance
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The actor Jude Law opens up the diary he kept in Kabul while on a mission to promote ceasefires around the world.
Last year I became an ambassador for a non-political organisation whose chief aim is simply to promote one day a year of peace. Since the actor and film-maker Jeremy Gilley founded Peace One Day in 1999, the United Nations has unanimously agreed to designate every September 21 as Peace Day.
The idea of this day of global ceasefires and non-violence is gaining supporters all the time: in 2007, according to the UN, more than 100m people observed Peace Day in 192 countries.
Because of my own career in film, I’ve helped Jeremy make a documentary to raise awareness of Peace Day and all it represents. The heroes of this film, The Day After Peace, are the Afghans: by observing the ceasefire in their southern provinces last year, they enabled 1.4m children to be inoculated against polio that day....
Last year I became an ambassador for a non-political organisation whose chief aim is simply to promote one day a year of peace. Since the actor and film-maker Jeremy Gilley founded Peace One Day in 1999, the United Nations has unanimously agreed to designate every September 21 as Peace Day.
The idea of this day of global ceasefires and non-violence is gaining supporters all the time: in 2007, according to the UN, more than 100m people observed Peace Day in 192 countries.
Because of my own career in film, I’ve helped Jeremy make a documentary to raise awareness of Peace Day and all it represents. The heroes of this film, The Day After Peace, are the Afghans: by observing the ceasefire in their southern provinces last year, they enabled 1.4m children to be inoculated against polio that day....
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