In 2015, the Secretary-General designated actor Daniel Craig as the first United Nations Global Advocate for the Elimination of Mines and Explosive Hazards.
Advocates are distinguished individuals, carefully selected from the fields of art, literature, science, entertainment, sports or other fields of public life, who have agreed to help focus worldwide attention on a specific campaign or initiative of the UN.
Mr. Craig supports the Secretary-General by promoting the vision of the United Nations to achieve a world free of the threat of mines and explosive hazards and mobilizing resources for the United Nations Trust Fund for Assistance in Mine Action.
Over the years Craig has participated in international meetings, raised more than a million dollars for UN mine action, augmented the profile of mine action with the media, become a Champion of the UN Safe Ground campaign and visited deminers in the field.
Though his travel was limited in 2020, so far this year he has launched a Safe Ground in Cambodia and is speaking on behalf of the UN mine action community at a UN Security Council debate on mine action (8 April), the upcoming United States congressional caucus for unexploded ordnance and landmines meeting (16 April), and he prepared this statement which was released on 31 March: “I am very pleased to add my voice today to that of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and many other leaders, activists, and concerned citizens, to call on all nations to keep their eye on the end-goal of ridding the world of landmines and explosive remnants of war," Craig said himself this week.
"It takes determination.”
