3 Inspirational Women
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Thompson is also Chair of the Helen Bamber Foundation, an organisation which supports refugees who have experienced violence and abuse, particularly human trafficking and torture. Speaking to UNODC , Thompson says: “It’s time for everybody to look at [human trafficking] and say the buying and selling of human beings for whatever reason is not appropriate in the 21st century and should never be allowed again.”
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South African beauty Charlize Theron is another woman to admire. In 2007 she founded the Africa Outreach Project, which funds programs to help young South Africans to protect themselves against HIV. Theron’s home country has the greatest number of people living with HIV in the world.
In 2008, Theron was named as a U.N. Peace Messenger, with a focus on ending violence against women. The actress is passionate about gender equality and ending abuse against women. At 15, Theron’s mother shot her alcoholic father dead when he became violent and threatened to kill them both.
Since moving to America and beginning her career as an actress, Theron has often chosen difficult roles raising issues of female abuse. Her 2004 portrayal of sexual abuse victim and serial killer Aileen Wuornos won her an Oscar in 2004. A year later, she played a character dealing with sexual harrassment in North Country , and in 2015 she starred as Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road, a fierce warrior who risks her life to save five women who have been raped and abused for years.
Earlier this year, Theron led a Women’s March on Washington against President Donald Trump. Protesting Trump’s views on race, gender, immigration and more, the actress was seen tearing up as thousands came together for the march. You can view the photos here.
