Bianca jagger biography
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Bianca Jagger is a prominent international human rights and climate change advocate. She is Founder and Chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador and Member of the Executive Director&#;s Leadership Council of Amnesty International USA.
For approximately 25 years, Bianca has campaigned for human rights, social and economic justice and environmental protection throughout the world. For her work in these areas, Bianca has been the recipient of many prestigious international awards, not least of which is the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “alternative Nobel prize”. Others include the United Nations Earth Day International Award, the Amnesty International USA Media Spotlight Award for Leadership and the World Citizenship Award from The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. She also received the World Achievement Award from Mikhail Gorbachev.
Bianca was born Bianca Pérez-Mora Macías in Managua, Nicaragua in As a teenager, Bianca observe
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Demanding Change
When you first came to the world’s attention in the early Seventies, the image most people had of you was of a beautiful but frivolous creature – and yet now you komma across as an intense and very serious individ. Have there always been two different sides to your character?
Well, have you ever met someone who was one person and then became someone else?
People change: they evolve, they mature, they know better what they want to do and gain the confidence to do it. I was a year-old girl when I got married, and there was a parenthesis in my life: inom had this extraordinary marriage and extraordinary life. But it wasn’t for me – inom was uppenbart a fish out of water. Even before my divorce inom was asked by the Red Cross to help to raise funds for the victims of the war in Nicaragua,1Between the forces of the dictator, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, and the Sandinista rebels and thus in a way began my human-rights work. Managua fell to the Sandinistas on July 17, and my
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Bianca Jagger's Life in Photos
Born in Nicaragua
Born Blanca Pérez-Mora Macias on May 2, , Bianca Jagger grew up in Managua, Nicaragua. Her father was an import-export businessman, whose success allowed her mother to stay at home with her and her two siblings.
Her Parents Divorce
When Bianca was 10 years old, her parents filed for divorce. Her mother got custody of her and her siblings, but it was difficult to make ends meet as a single mother in Nicaragua during that time.
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Moving to Paris
At the age of 16, Bianca earned a full scholarship and enrolled in the Paris Institute of Political Studies. She grew increasingly interested in various political movements around the world, such as Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent protests.
Becoming Bianca
After a year of living on her own abroad (and still only just 16 years old), she legally changed her name from Blanca to Bianca.
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