Mariska Hargitay spoke out for victims of sexual assault while helping shed light on the issue at the Empire State Building in New York City on Friday.
Law & Order: The SVU actress and activist, 60, whose Joyful Heart Foundation received a generous donation from Taylor Swift earlier this week, spoke about the work she’s done for some 20 years in an impassioned speech before flip the switch.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
“When I first came across the country’s sexual assault and domestic violence statistics on SVU, my head exploded,” said the actress who has played detective and now Captain Olivia Benson on the hit cop show for a quarter century. .
He noted that there are an average of 463,634 sexual assault and rape victims ages 12 and older in the United States each year, emphasizing that “that’s almost half a million victims each year.”
Mariska Hargitay, 60, spoke out for victims of sexual assault while helping to shed light on the issue at the Empire State Building in New York City on Friday. The building was not damaged in the 4.7 earthquake that shook parts of New York and New Jersey
Law & Order: The SVU actress and activist, 60, who created the Joyful Heart Foundation, spoke of the work she’s done for some 20 years in an impassioned speech before flipping the switch to illuminate the iconic building.
When she first heard about the staggering statistic, the Emmy winner said she thought, “How can it be that not everyone is talking about this and I still feel this way?”
“The landscape around these issues has certainly changed, my goodness,” she said, adding, “I couldn’t be more proud of the work Joyful Heart has done and is currently doing, and will do, but the statistics persist.” “Violence persists and suffering persists.”
He compared the strength and resilience of the New York icon, who was hit by a 4.8 magnitude earthquake on Friday, to the strength and resilience of victims of sexual violence.
The historic landmark was not damaged and the NYPD reported no major incidents as a result of the shaking.
“I want the light of our attention, our compassion or our desire for change and, above all, our commitment to dismantle the systems that make this violence possible.”
One of the Joyful Heart Foundation’s programs is called Defining Manhood for the Next Generation and ‘explores young men’s attitudes around gender roles, masculinity, the characteristics of “good men,” and the male role models who influence these views’.
She was thrilled to accept the opportunity to illuminate the Empire State Building in Joyful Heart’s blue and green colors, “on behalf of all the survivors in my heart… to shed this beautiful, vital, urgent light on these issues. ‘
The veteran actress was joined by two of her three children, August, 17, and Amaya, 12, to illuminate the building.
“When I first came across the country’s sexual assault and domestic violence statistics on SVU, my head exploded,” said the actress who has played Olivia Benson on the hit cop show for a quarter century, noting that there are almost half a million 12-year-old victims. + in the US annually
She was thrilled to accept the opportunity to illuminate the Empire State Building in the blue and green colors of Joyful Heart, “on behalf of all the survivors I carry in my heart… to shed this beautiful, vital, urgent light on these issues.”
Hargitay was joined by two of her children, Amaya, 12, and August 10. She shares them and her younger brother, Andrew, 11, with her husband Peter Hermann, 56. The former model looked sophisticated in a blue dress with V-neck and 3/4 length sleeves
She shares them with her younger brother Andrew, 11, with her husband Peter Hermann, 56.
The former model looked sophisticated in a blue fitted dress with a V-neck and 3/4 sleeves.
She stepped out in taupe pumps and accessorized with stacked necklaces, including a blue stone pendant.
The Joyful Heart Foundation helps focus on educational programs, including those designed to “dismantle the systems that make [sexual] possible violence’
Before the ceremony, the veteran actress posed for some photos on the terrace of the iconic New York building, covering her stunning blue dress with a cream-colored wool coat.
The coat highlighted the actress’s warm complexion. Her shoulder-length brown hair was styled in loose curls and she wore camera-ready makeup with a bold red lip.
Law and order: organized crime The actress also posted photos on the terrace, covering herself with a wool coat in cream tones, which highlighted her warm complexion.
Her shoulder-length brown hair was styled in loose curls and she wore camera-ready makeup with a bold red lip.
Earlier this year, the star opened up about her own sexual assault, revealing that a man she thought was a friend raped her when she was 30.
In a test in People Last year, she wrote that working with her foundation helped her “see what healing could look like.”