UNESCO Artist for Peace

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UNESCO Artists for Peace are international celebrity advocates for the United Nations agency UNESCO. This category of advocate is intended to heighten public awareness in addition to the categories UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, UNESCO Special Envoy and UNESCO Champion for Sport. The programme started in 1995.

[edit] Current list

The following is a list of current UNESCO Artists for Peace:^[1]

Name	Country	Since	Link
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh	Azerbaijan	3 April 2008	[1]
Amri Aminov	Tajikistan	2008	[2]
Relja Bašić	Croatia	6 October 2004	[3]
Shirley Bassey	United Kingdom		[4]
Marisa Berenson	Italy		[5]
Chico Bouchikhi	France		[6]
Brenz Band	Germany	3 February 2005	[7]
Sayon Camara	Guinea	21 June 2003	[8]
Lauren Child	United Kingdom	12 December 2008	[9]
China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe	China	31 July 2007	[10]
Joaquín Cortés	Spain		[11]
Manu Dibango	Cameroon	27 May 2004	[12]
Céline Dion	Canada		[13]
Earthsavers DREAMS Ensemble	Philippines	29 September 2003	[14]
Montserrat Figueras	Spain	17 June 2008	[15]
Frankétienne	Haiti	24 March 2010	[16]
Gilberto Gil	Brazil	1999	[17]
Juan Luís Guerra	Dominican Republic	15 September 2008	[18]
Valery Gergiev	Russia	31 March / 1 April 2003	[19]
Zaha Hadid	United Kingdom	24 June 2010	[20]
Alain Husson-Dumoutier	France		[21]
Sumi Jo	South Korea	April 2003	[22]
Missa Johnouchi	Japan	21 August 2006	[23]
Dani Karavan	Israel		[24]
Marcel Khalifé	Lebanon	7 June 2005	[25]
Countess Setsuko Klossowska de Rola	Japan	7 January 2005	[26]
Amine Kouider	Algeria		[27]
Titouan Lamazou	France	12 March 2003	[28]
Gong Li	China		[29]
Tania Libertad	Peru		[30]
The Philippine Madrigal Singers	Philippines		[31]
Serguei Markarov	Russia	12 December 2002	[32]
Maria de Medeiros	Portugal	17 March 2008	[33]
Ino Mirković	Croatia		[34]
N. Scott Momaday	United States	12 May 2004	[35]
Georges Moustaki	France		[36]
Mariana Nicolesco	Romania	21 Novembeber 2005	[37]
Eijin Nimura	Japan	October 1998	[38]
Prince Twins Seven-Seven	Nigeria	25 May 2005	[39]
Bibi Russell	Bangladesh		[40]
Jordi Savall	Spain	17 June 2008	[41]
Márta Sebestyén	Hungary	1 June 2010	[42]
Vladimir Spivakov	Russia	7 November 2006	[43]
Boris Trajanov	Macedonia	24 February 2005	[44]
Patricia Velásquez	Venezuela	11 June 2003	[45]
Venezuela Children Symphonic Orchestra	Venezuela		[46]
Gérard Voisin	France	7 July 2005	[47]
World Orchestra for Peace	United Kingdom	5 August 2010	[48]
Miyako Yoshida	Japan	21 July 2004	[49]
Zhang Jun	China	26 May 2011	[50]