Reese Witherspoon’s Campaign Against Domestic Violence

Reese Witherspoon was in Brazil yesterday promoting her worldwide campaign against the abuse of women. Reese who has never been a victim of domestic violence herself is the global ambassador of “Speak Out Against Domestic Violence,” a joint campaign launched in 2004 by the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the Avon cosmetics company.

“There isn’t a woman in the world that doesn’t have a friend or a partner who’s actually experiencing some sort of violence against them, so I think although domestic violence hasn’t happened to me personally, I certainly know women who are dealing with this struggle every day,” she told a media conference in Sao Paulo.

Domestic violence, Witherspoon said, “affects women who are famous, who are not famous, women who have money, women who have no money. This is an issue that crosses all boundaries and it certainly affects everyone.”

Reese was also promoting the sale of the bracelets which is financing the charity and in a symbolic gesture, she gave one of the bracelets to Maria da Penha Maia Fernandes, a Brazilian woman who has come to represent domestic violence in her home country after she was left a paraplegic by her violent husband.

Good for Reese! I have to say she looked super-cute while promoting her campaign in Brazil.