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Jemima Khan with J8 delegates at the launch of the UNICEF UK Manifesto for Children.
© UNICEF UK/2009/Andrew Aitchison
Jemima with Shane Warne and Andrew Flintoff at Lord's for 'Cricket Unites for Children' event
© Simon John Owen 2007
Brief biography
Jemima Khan became a UNICEF UK Ambassador in September 2001 and has been passionately campaigning for children and their right to grow up in a world where they can be healthy, educated and live free from conflict ever since.
On 29 June 2009, Jemima launched UNICEF UK’s Manifesto for Children in Parliament, and urged politicians to keep the promise that the UK made to children when it signed up to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
Read the UNICEF UK Manifesto for Children
In May 2009, Jemima visited a refugee camp in Pakistan for those escaping the fighting in the Swat valley. Some 80 per cent of the internally displaced people in these camps are children, many of whom have been separated from their families. She saw UNICEF-supported Child Friendly Spaces, where traumatised children can play in safety.
On 16 May 2007, Jemima joined MPs and over 30 NGOs including UNICEF UK at the House of Commons to call for more support to raise the low levels of breastfeeding in the UK at the launch of the Breastfeeding Manifesto.
On 25 October 2005, Jemima launched the Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS campaign in London. The launch was a great success and Jemima spoke emotionally about her recent field trip to Nairobi, Kenya and the children she had met there.
Jemima was a key spokesperson and supporter of UNICEF’s End Child Exploitation campaign. Jemima met trafficked children whilst on a field trip to Romania and helped to launch both UNICEF UK’s Stop the Traffic Report in 2003 and our Child Labour Report in 2005.
In September 2006 Jemima travelled to Pakistan with fellow UNICEF UK Ambassador Trudie Styler to report on the anniversary of the Pakistan Earthquake. They travelled to Abbotabad and Balakot (the epicentre of the earthquake) to see the ongoing emergency work UNICEF and partners were doing throughout the region. See the photogallery of Trudie and Jemima’s visit to Pakistan.
Watch Jemima Khan's advert for UNICEF's film The Gift.
UNICEF UK would like to thank Jemima and Australian cricketing legend Shane Warne for choosing UNICEF as one of the beneficiaries of ‘Cricket Unites for Children’. The event took place at Lord’s Cricket Ground on Sunday 24 June 2007 raising over £400,000 for UNICEF UK and the Shane Warne Foundation.
The event, ‘Cricket Unites for Children’, featured the unique opportunity for guests to have a net and coaching session at Lord’s Indoor School with some of the biggest names in cricket, including Kevin Pietersen, Brian Lara and England captain Michael Vaughan. The event concluded with a VIP dinner and featured an audience with Shane Warne and Andrew Flintoff hosted by the broadcaster Mark Nicholas. Proceeds from the event helped to support the Born Free campaign.
Jemima Khan says:
“What struck me most of all was the realisation that all these children, like the one million others growing up alone in the world today as a result of conflict, have lost any sense of what it means to be a child. The setting up of Child-Friendly Spaces by UNICEF, and the provision of care and protection for orphans in camps and conflict zones are just some of the ways UNICEF can help these children to become children again.” - Following a visit to a refuge camp.
