It seems that this is the year for famous actresses to take an intelligent and heartfelt stand on topics they feel close to themselves: now, Teri Hatcher's 2014 sees her as a brave speaker for sexual abuse victims.

After Emma Watson's amazing speech on feminism earlier this year at the United Nations' launch of the "He for She" campaign, it seems that these have been an important few months for women in the public eye, as shown by Teri Hatcher's 2014 speech at the United Nations, when she broke down to tears talking about her past experience as a child abuse victim.

According to the IB Times, the actress was asked to speak out in regards of the topic at the United Nations, after she confessed back in 2006 that she had suffered abuse from her uncle when she was 7 years old; a fact she tried to hide throughout her entire life.

It seems that Teri Hatcher's 2014 sees her as a much stronger person, willing to help whoever else went through the same tough ordeal as she did when she was a child.

In a 2006 interview in Vanity Fair, Hatcher confessed her uncle had abused her when she was just 7 years old. At the time, she told the magazine that she was compelled to speak out after another victim of her uncle, Richard Hayes Stone, had committed suicide at 11; in a note, she said the man had abused her from a young age.

One of the stars of "Desperate Housewives" and a Bond girl in the Pierce Brosnan film "Tomorrow Never Dies," now Teri Hatcher's 2014 sees the actress speaking out about how abuse can affect the victim, a topic that has become a passion for her in the last few years, according to Yahoo News: her work as a spokesperson against abuse includes having lit up the Empire State Building last Monday in orange for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

You can watch Teri Hatcher's 2014 amazing speech below, which received a standing ovation at the UN.