Anna Cataldi
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Anna Cataldi | |
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Born | Anna Margherita Cataldi 14 November 1939 Turin, Italy |
Died | 1 September 2021 | (aged 81)
Occupation | Writer, journalist, humanitarian, film producer |
Anna Margherita Cataldi (14 November 1939 – 1 September 2021) was an Italian humanitarian, journalist, film producer, and author of several books.
She is known for having been executive producer for the
Early life and education
Cataldi was born in Turin. She attended the Liceo Artistico di Torino and then the Polytechnic University of Turin, where she studied in the Faculty of Architecture.
Out of Africa
Starting in 1981, Anna Cataldi travelled to
Humanitarian work
Somalia
In September 1992, Anna Cataldi went on her first humanitarian mission with her good friend, actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Audrey Hepburn. Together they travelled to Somalia, which was suffering from a major drought. Cataldi's first of many humanitarian missions was Hepburn's last, as she died early the following year.
Sarajevo
After returning from Somalia, Cataldi obtained a job at Italian magazine Panorama as a war correspondent from Sarajevo, which was under siege at the time. After reporting on the events in 1992, she was appointed UNICEF International Media Consultant, a position she held between 1993 and 1994, during which she travelled to Sarajevo several times.
Messenger of Peace
In 1998, newly appointed
World Health Organization
In 2007 Cataldi became Goodwill Ambassador for the World Health Organization in the Stop TB programme.[5] To raise awareness on the plight of tuberculosis, Cataldi travelled to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Angola, Zambia, South Africa, Algeria, Morocco and Jordan during her time as ambassador. She left the World Health Organization and the United Nations in 2011.
ECRE
After leaving the United Nations, Cataldi was nominated Goodwill Ambassador for the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, known as ECRE. In her two-year stay she travelled to Hungary, Malta, Tunisia and Libya. During this period of time and following 2012, when she left ECRE, Cataldi became increasingly involved with issue regarding refugees, as well as the fate of the countries recovering from the Arab Spring. She in fact travelled to Tunisia in 2015 to report on the political situation for the Italian magazine F. There, she interviewed several prominent women, some of whom were part of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, which later won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Crimes of War Project
Cataldi was also one of the founders of the Crimes of War Project, together with five others including previous chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay
Publications
Periodicals and newspapers
Anna Cataldi contributed to the following newspapers and magazines during her journalistic career:
References
- ^ "Out of Africa (1985)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2015. Archived from the original on 6 November 2015.
- ^ "Former UN Peace Messenger Anna Cataldi joins campaign to curb TB". United Nations. 20 September 2007.
- ^ Out of Africa (1985) - IMDb, retrieved 22 March 2021
- ^ "United Nations Messengers of Peace".
- ^ "Former UN Peace Messenger Anna Cataldi joins campaign to curb TB". United Nations. 20 September 2007.
- ^ "Board of Directors". Archived from the original on 11 January 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
- ^ "Crimes of War".
- ^ "La Repubblica". 20 November 1992.
- ^ "La Repubblica". 5 August 1994.