Meryl Streep lent her huge star power to a phenomenal cause on Thursday as a guest speaker
at the Women's Refugee Commission 25th Anniversary Voices Of Courage Awards luncheon.
Held at New York's famed Cipriani restaurant, the event honoured three remarkable former refugees: Liberian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Gbowee, Sierra Leone's Chernor Bah and Mary Tal from Cameroon.
The three-time Oscar-winner was the epitome of understated elegance as she arrived at the event dressed in black dress pants, a pretty neutral-coloured patterned silk blouse, two-tone brown peep-toe heels and with a matching checked shawl draped around her shoulders