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UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors are celebrity advocates of UNESCO (not diplomatic ambassadors) who utilize their talent or fame to spread the UNESCO ideals, especially attracting media attention. Other specialised categories of advocate include UNESCO Artist for Peace, UNESCO Champion for Sport and UNESCO Special Envoy. The following is an (incomplete) list of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors along with the projects and activities they support.

Antonio Abreu - Peace through the music
Valdas Adamkus - Knowledge Societies
Mehriban Aliyeva - Promotion of Oral and Musical Traditions
Alicia Alonso - Promotion of ballet (Intangible Programme Inheritance)
Patrick Baudry - Education of the youth
Pierre Berge - HIV/AIDS issues, Cultural Heritage
Montserrat Caballé - Fundraising for children in distress and victims of war
Pierre Cardin -
Claudia Cardinale - Promotion of Women's Rights, especially women in the Mediterranean
Marin Constantin - Music and World Heritage
Catherine Deneuve - Protection of Film Heritage and Cultural Heritage
Cheick Modibo Diarra - Promotion of education, especially in sciences, sustainable development in Africa
Miguel Angel Estrella - Promotion of Culture of Peace and Tolerance through Music
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir - Promotion of linguistic diversity, Women's right and Education
Princess Firyal - Humanitarian action, Refugees, World Heritage, Education of street children, HIV/AIDS prevention, Women's Rights, especially Arab women
Ivry Gitlis - Support of Education and Culture of Peace and Tolerance
Bahia Hariri - Preservation of World Heritage, Education, Culture, the Environment, Women's Rights and sustainable development in the Arab world
Ikuo Hirayama - Safeguarding of the world cultural heritage by the rescue of the Sites and Monuments in danger
Jean Michel Jarre - Youth and Tolerance, Defence of the World Heritage and the environment
Ömer Zülfü Livaneli - Peace and Tolerance through the music and the promotion of the humans right
Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg - Main Area of Interest: Education, Woman's Rights, Microfinance and Campaign against poverty
Lily Marinho - Promotion of Culture of Peace, Poverty
Rigoberta Menchú Tum - Promotion of Culture of Peace, Protection of Rights of Indigenous People
Princess Lalla Meryem of Morocco - Protection of Childhood and Women's Rights
Antonio "Kitín" Muñoz Valcárcel - Protection and Promotion of Indigenous Culture and environment
Ute-Henriette Ohoven - (UNESCO Special Ambassador for the Education of Children in Need) - Education, UNESCO Programme Children in Need
Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Pelé) - Promotion of sports as a means of alleviating poverty and drug use
Kim Phuc Phan Thi - Children and innocent victims of war
Susana Rinaldi - Street Children, Culture of Peace
Mstislav Rostropovitch - Art Education, Humanitarianism, Cultural Heritage
Sheikh Ghassan I. Shaker - Fundraising, children and women in need and victims of war, education, microfinance
Madanjeet Singh - Support to Sustainable Development through Communication and Information in South Asia, through projects of micro-credit, communication and information. Sponsored creation of UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the promotion of tolerance.
Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn - Empowerment of Minority Children through Education and through the Preservation of Their Intangible Cultural Heritage
Wole Soyinka - Human Rights, Freedom of Expression, African Culture
Zurab Tsereteli - Cultural and artistic projects
Giancarlo Elia Valori - Safeguarding Intangible Heritage
Marianna Vardinoyanni - Protection of Childhood and promotion of cultural olympiads, humanitarian relief to war victims
Julio Werthein - Education, Culture, Environment

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