Julia Karin Ormond Bio

Ormond got married Rory Edwards in 1988. Edwards was an actor Ormond had encountered while performing in Wuthering Heights. The marriage was ended in 1994. She married Jon Rubin, a political activist, in 1999. In the fall of 2004, Sophie, the couple's daughter was born. The couple divorced in 2008 and separated. Ormond, who has been fighting human trafficking from the mid-1990s onwards and formed an agreement in 2006 with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to increase her efforts. Transatlantic Partners Against AIDS is her advocacy group. Its goal is to increase awareness about AIDS across Russia, Ukraine and she is the founding co-chairman for FilmAid International. Ormond was named an official United Nations Goodwill Ambassador on 2 December 2005. Her focus has been on anti-human-trafficking initiatives, raising awareness about this modern form of slavery and promoting efforts to combat it. Ormond, as ambassador, has served as counsel to the United States House of Representatives Committee on International Relations Subcommittee on Africa and Global Human Rights and International Operations. She has also traveled around the world as an ambassador. Ormond was the founder of the Alliance to Stop Slavery and End Trafficking in 2007.

 

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