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How Salma Hayek Pinault and her husband are working to end violence against women globally
Nearly one in three women is a victim of either physical and/or sexual intimate violence from a partner or non-partner in their lifetime, according to the World Health Organization and UN Women.
To help survivors of violence across the world, actor Salma Hayek and her husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, have helped create the Kering Foundation, where he serves as CEO and chairman. The foundation collaborates with local organizations in the U.S., Italy, Mexico, France, South Korea and the U.K.
Over the last 16 years, the Kering Foundation has helped 1 million survivors of violence.
“We always want to be better and better human beings not just at what we do and in our family, we do strive to be better in many different layers,” Hayek Pinault told “CBS Mornings” in an interview alongside her husband.
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Since it was founded in 2008, the Kering Foundation has trained 40,000 professionals to provide services to survivors, according to its website.
But for the couple, their activism started long before.
“We started doing this work many years ago, for me more than 30 years ago, and it was not a popular subject. Nobody wanted to help it … And so we’re living in a different time. How important it is for all of us to come together and do it together,” Hayek Pinault said.
For Francois-Henri Pinault, he felt a call to action through his company.
“I’ve always been convinced that any corporation, whatever the size, should have a commitment that goes beyond being successful financially, making a profit, as something more we need to commit to our communities,” he said.
The father of two girls credits his wife for bringing awareness to violence against women.
“When I transformed my company into this luxury group, I was looking for what commitment should make the most sense for me, and at the time I met my wife in 2006, and I discovered the reality of violence and women. I thought it was remote from where I was living and no, it’s all over,” he said.
He added that most of his employees of the luxury goods company Kering are women, along with a large extent of customers, bringing the issue even closer.
“So you put all of that together and say well that is the commitment I want for my company, for myself, for my family, for my kids, and we started from there.”
On Monday, “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King emceed the Caring for Women fundraiser dinner, which brought together celebrities, philanthropists and charities to help the Kering Foundation’s mission of ending violence.
Hayek Pinault said her husband’s commitment to activism is something she loves about him.
“It was completely his initiative and that’s when I fell in love with him … He said, ‘I think it’s time to redefine luxury’ and I thought that was so beautiful,” she said.
But Hayek Pinault joked that it wasn’t love at first sight.
“I was embarrassed to be seen with him. I was very strong in the activism, and I didn’t want to lose credibility, and then he was just so charming, interesting and so much fun, and it just kept going and going. Love doesn’t have to be really difficult.”
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Yellowstone hiker burned when she falls into scalding water near Old Faithful, park officials say
Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. — A New Hampshire woman suffered severe burns on her leg after hiking off-trail in Yellowstone National Park and falling into scalding water in a thermal area near the Old Faithful geyser, park officials said.
The 60-year-old woman from Windsor, New Hampshire, along with her husband and their leashed dog were walking off a designated trail near the Mallard Lake Trailhead on Monday afternoon when she broke through a thin crust over the water and suffered second- and third-degree burns to her lower leg, park officials said. Her husband and the dog weren’t injured.
The woman was flown to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho for treatment.
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Park visitors are reminded to stay on boardwalks and trails in hydrothermal areas and exercise extreme caution. The ground in those areas is fragile and thin and there’s scalding water just below the surface, park officials said.
Pets are allowed in limited, developed areas of Yellowstone park but are prohibited on boardwalks, hiking trails, in the backcountry and in thermal areas.
The incident is under investigation. The woman’s name wasn’t made public.
This is the first known thermal injury in Yellowstone in 2024, park officials said in a statement. The park had recorded 3.5 million visitors through August this year.
Hot springs have injured and killed more people in Yellowstone National Park than any other natural feature, the National Park Service said. At least 22 people have died from hot spring-related injuries in and around the 3,471-square-mile national park since 1890, park officials have said.
TRENTON, N.J. — Democratic Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver has defeated Republican small businessman Carmen Bucco in a contest in New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District that opened up because of the death of Rep. Donald Payne Jr. in April.
McIver will serve out the remainder of Payne’s term, which ends in January. She and Bucco will face a rematch on the November ballot for the full term.
McIver said in a statement Wednesday that she stands on the “shoulders of giants,” naming Payne as chief among them.
She cast ahead to the November election, saying the right to make reproductive health choices was on the ballot as well as whether the economy should benefit the wealthy or “hard working Americans.”
“I will fight because the purpose of politics and the purpose of our vote is to give the people of our communities and our nation a bold voice,” she said.
Bucco congratulated McIver on the victory in a statement but said he’s looking forward to the rematch in November.
“I am not going anywhere,” he said in an email. “We still have a second chance to make district 10 great again!”
Who are LaMonica McIver and Carmen Bucco?
McIver emerged as the Democratic candidate in a crowded field in the July special election. A member of the city council of New Jersey’s biggest city since 2018, she also worked for Montclair Public Schools as a personnel director and plans to focus on affordability, infrastructure, abortion rights and “protecting our democracy,” she told The Associated Press earlier this summer.
Bucco describes himself on his campaign website as a small-business owner influenced by his upbringing in the foster system. He lists support for law enforcement and ending corruption as top issues.
The 10th District lies in a heavily Democratic and majority-Black region of northern New Jersey. Republicans are outnumbered by more than 6 to 1.
It’s been a volatile year for Democrats in New Jersey, where the party dominates state government and the congressional delegation.
Among the developments were the conviction on federal bribery charges of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, who has denied the charges, and the demise of the so-called county party line — a system in which local political leaders give their preferred candidates favorable position on the primary ballot.
Democratic Rep. Andy Kim, who’s running for Menendez’s seat, and other Democrats brought a federal lawsuit challenging the practice as part of his campaign to oust Menendez, who has resigned since his conviction.
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