Bianca Jagger

Bianca Jagger (born Blanca Pérez-Mora Macías;[nt 1] 2 May 1945)[1][7][8][9][10] is a Nicaraguan social activist, human rights advocate, and a former actress.

[21] Jagger caused a minor controversy in May 2012[22] when she took flash photographs during a performance of Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach at the Barbican in London.

At one point during her official visit, the entire staff saw about 40 captured refugees marched away at gunpoint towards El Salvador by a death squad.

In early 1979, Jagger visited Nicaragua with an International Red Cross delegation and was shocked by the brutality and oppression that the Somoza regime carried out there.

She has also opposed the death penalty and defended the rights of women and of indigenous peoples in Latin America, notably the Yanomami tribe in Brazil against the invasion of gold miners.

[28] In January 2009, Jagger addressed some 12,000 people who rallied in Trafalgar Square in protest against an Israeli offensive in the Gaza several days earlier.

On 8 October 2010, she spoke at the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO) 2010 world conference on moving beyond petroleum and "Crimes against Present and Future Generations".

[31] In June 2012, along with the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Airbus, Jagger launched an online campaign called the Plant a Pledge initiative, which aims to restore 150 million hectares of forest around the world by 2020.

[32] On 21 November 2013, Jagger delivered the prestigious 12th annual Longford Lecture titled "Ending Violence Against Women and Girls, and the Culture of Impunity: achieving the missing Millennium Development Goal target", chaired by Jon Snow.

[33] For her international work on behalf of humanitarian causes, Jagger has earned numerous awards, including: Bianca also appeared in several movies and TV shows:

Bianca Jagger engaging for human rights in Tibet, Vienna 2012.
Appearing on television discussion programme After Dark on 6 August 1988