{"id":387663,"date":"2010-03-04T07:09:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T12:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=95406"},"modified":"2010-03-04T07:09:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T12:09:40","slug":"shakira-honored-by-united-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/387663","title":{"rendered":"Shakira Honored By United Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shakira has been rewarded for her work with impoverished children with a medal from the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/610x-6-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Shakira United Nations Medal\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-95414\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Colombian-born pop star, 33, spearheads The Barefoot Foundation, which provides nutrition to more than 6,000 children in Colombia. In addition, Shakira has worked as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and is member of The ALAS Foundation, an advocacy group for children across Latin America.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-95406\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/shakira-honored-by-united-nations\/switzerland-2\/' title='United Nations Honors Shakira'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/x610-5-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"United Nations Honors Shakira\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/shakira-honored-by-united-nations\/switzerland-3\/' title='Shakira Honored By UN'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/x610-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"Shakira Honored By UN\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/shakira-honored-by-united-nations\/correction-switzerland-shakira-ilo-award\/' title='Shakira United Nations Medal'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/610x-6-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"Shakira United Nations Medal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;She Wold&#8221; singer was presented with the Medal of Social Justice for Peace at a small ceremony in Geneva on Wednesday. UN labor chief Juan Somavia called Shakira a <em>&#8220;true ambassador for children and young people, for quality education and social justice.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p> Shakira made a call for others to lend a hand to those in need: <em>&#8220;It&#8217;s not too late to keep our promise to our children, but we must act now. Together, we can make education and decent work for all a reality.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This event was part of the UN&#8217;s World Day of Social Justice celebration. Other celebrity ambassadors have included Susan Sarandon, Mia Farrow, Whoopi Goldberg, David Beckham, Jessica Lange, Orlando Bloom, Angelina Jolie, Selena Gomez, and Ricky Martin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Y8_rxauFEaigcFU5X2IyFhRJI6w\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Y8_rxauFEaigcFU5X2IyFhRJI6w\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Y8_rxauFEaigcFU5X2IyFhRJI6w\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Y8_rxauFEaigcFU5X2IyFhRJI6w\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shakira has been rewarded for her work with impoverished children with a medal from the United Nations. The Colombian-born pop star, 33, spearheads The Barefoot Foundation, which provides nutrition to more than 6,000 children in Colombia. In addition, Shakira has worked as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and is member of The ALAS Foundation, an advocacy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}