Angelina Jolie Made the Case for Refugee Education in a Powerful Op-Ed
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- Published on Saturday, 01 September 2018 17:37
- Written by Teen Vogue
She said it's "how you rebuild a country."
Actress and activist Angelina Jolie penned a powerful essay published by CNN on the Syrian refugee crisis, which she called “a major challenge for our generation.”But, she argued, finding a solution to the crisis is not hopeless. She says education is the key to rebuilding war-torn countries and building up refugees to their fullest potential.“We often talk about refugees as a single mass of people, a burden,” Jolie wrote, saying we do not see refugees as individuals with goals and potential. But she said many young refugees aspire to work and study hard, contribute to society, and eventually help their homelands. “[Education], in the end, I thought, is how you rebuild a country: not with peace agreements and resolutions, as necessary as those are, but with millions of school report cards, exams passed, qualifications obtained, jobs acquired, and young lives turned to good purpose rather than spent languishing in camps,” Jolie wrote.Syria has been ravaged by civil war since March 2011. According to the UNHCR, the U.N. Refugee Agency, over 10 million Syrian people have been displaced during the war’s seven years — like Hussin, who fled with her family to Jordan when she was only 12 years old.Jolie said meeting two young Syrian refugee women with “contrasting lives” helped her to come to this conclusion.One, she said, put aside her dream of becoming a doctor in order to help raise her siblings when her mother was killed in an airstrike and her father was separated from his children. At 14, the woman married and became a mother. The Freedom Fund has found that many young refugee women have been forced into childhood marriage in order to avoid extreme poverty.“Even if the war ended tomorrow, she has been robbed of her childhood and the future she might have had,” Jolie wrote.
The other young refugee fled from Syria to Iraq alongside her family when she was 16. She enrolled in an Iraqi school, and is now studying at an Iraqi university to become a dentist. Jolie wrote that the woman told her she hopes to eventually return to Syria to help her homeland.With global conflicts outlasting entire childhoods, Jolie wrote that countries are “losing out on an entire generation of education and skills amongst its young people” — something she called a “tragedy.”“Conversely, investing in the education of refugees is the most powerful way we can help them to be self-sufficient, and contribute to the future stability of countries torn apart by conflict,” she wrote.Jolie, of course, is not the only one fiercely advocating to educate young refugee women. Perhaps most famously, Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for her advocacy for young Pakistani women’s education — even after being shot in the head for her work. And in Syria, refugee Muzoon Almellehan is referred to as “the Malala of Syria” for her refugee education advocacy.“We need education, because Syria needs us,” the then 18-year-old Muzoon said at the United Nations in 2016.Jolie concluded her essay by calling for curriculums to be established for refugee children in primary and secondary school so they are more prepared to pursue college. She also called for wealthier nations to “address humanitarian funding shortfalls so refugee parents don't have to choose between food and schooling for their children.”
You can read Jolie’s full essay here.
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Maleficent II Has Wrapped Production
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- Published on Wednesday, 29 August 2018 11:52
- Written by Coming Soon
Maleficent II has officially wrapped up production! Director Joachim Rønning and actress Elle Fanning took to their respective social media accounts to announce the end of filming on the sequel. Make sure to check out their posts below (via Vital Thrills).Oscar and three-time Golden Globe winner Angelina Jolie (Girl, Interrupted, Wanted) and Elle Fanning (The Beguiled, Super 8) reprise their roles as the dark fairy Maleficent and Princess Aurora, respectively, two characters from the studio’s animated classic Sleeping Beauty, whose untold story was brought to life on screen in Maleficent.Michelle Pfeiffer (Murder on the Orient Express, Ant-Man and the Wasp), the Golden Globe Award-winning, Emmy nominated and three-time Academy Award-nominated actress, joins the cast as Queen Ingrith. Also joining the production are Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (Doctor Strange, 12 Years a Slave), Ed Skrein (Deadpool, Game of Thrones) and Robert Lindsay (My Family, Wimbledon). Harris Dickinson (The Darkest Minds, Trust) joins Maleficent II as Prince Phillip.The film is directed by Joachim Rønning (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Kon-Tiki) and written by Linda Woolverton (Alice in Wonderland, Beauty and the Beast) and Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster (Transparent). The producers are Joe Roth (Alice through the Looking Glass, Oz the Great and Powerful, Maleficent) and Angelina Jolie.
Additional cast members returning from the 2014 film include: Sam Riley (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Control) as Diaval; Oscar nominee Imelda Staunton (Pride, the Harry Potter films) as the pixie Knotgrass; Juno Temple (Wonder Wheel, Atonement) as the pixie Thistlewit; and Academy Award nominee Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread, Topsy-Turvy) as the pixie Flittle.A fantasy adventure that picks up several years after Maleficent, in which audiences learned of the events that hardened the heart of Disney’s most notorious villain and drove her to curse a baby Princess Aurora, Maleficent II continues to explore the complex relationship between the horned fairy and the soon to be Queen, as they form new alliances and face new adversaries in their struggle to protect the moors and the magical creatures that reside within.Maleficent II is set for a May 29, 2020 release, so we still have a while to wait until we see Elle and the titular Maleficent join together once more.
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Angelina Jolie flashes cleavage in strapless dress as she enjoys outing with son Pax, 14, in LA
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- Published on Tuesday, 28 August 2018 03:25
- Written by Daily mail
Since returning to Los Angeles from London recently, Angelina Jolie has been seen out and about with each of her six children individually or in pairs.The public sightings come as she continues her ongoing court battle with ex Brad Pitt over custody issues as they seek to finalize their divorce.And on Sunday, it was the turn of son Pax, 14, to get his famous mother's undivided attention as they went for lunch together followed by a spot of shopping.The actress, 43, wore a strapless camel-colored dress that revealed her cleavage and arm tattoos.She added a matching wrap and matching heels for the Sunday outing.Jolie left her brunette locks loose and tumbling around her shoulders and sported a pair of round gold-framed sunglasses.Pax, whom she adopted from Vietnam in 2007 when he was three, was dressed in a red and black plaid shirt worn undone over a black tee.He wore faded blue jeans and a pair of red and white sneakers along with sunglasses.The two were accompanied by a heavy security presence as they visited trendy Melrose Avenue.The divorce between the two Hollywood stars took a nasty turn earlier this month after Jolie accused Pitt, 54, of being a 'deadbeat dad'.The actor responded by revealing he had paid millions to his estranged wife including lending her money to buy a family home in LA since she filed for divorce in September 2016.After duking it out in public, the Maleficent star let it be known last week that she has had a change of heart and wants an amicable end to her marriage.And last Wednesday, news broke that the celebrity exes, who share six children, have reached an interim custody arrangement.
The agreement means that a scheduled custody hearing will no longer go ahead, ET reported.According to The Blast, Jolie and Pitt have agreed temporary custody issues for one month as a custody evaluation continues in Los Angeles.The evaluator is gathering information from both parents as well as the kids - Maddox, 17. Pax, Zahara, 13, Shiloh, 12, and 10-year-old-twins Vivienne and Knox.Jolie recently returned to LA from London where she was filming Maleficent 2 and where the children were primarily residing with their mother. Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in September 2016 and sought custody of their children. Pitt countered by asking for joint custody. A judge overseeing the case has previously cautioned Jolie for allegedly not helping the kids have a relationship with Pitt and threatening to reduce her time with them. ET's source told the entertainment outlet Wednesday: 'Angelina is enjoying the last few days of summer before school starts,' adding, 'she is helping the children heal with their father.' A week ago, Jolie was seen out and about running errands with son Knox, smiling happily as she treated the youngster to some frozen yogurt.And last Tuesday, Jolie was in good spirits as she enjoyed a shopping trip in LA with her two eldest daughters, Shiloh and Zahara.
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source : Daily mail 
Angelina Jolie cuts ties with lawyer Laura Wasser and hires new counsel 'for the protection and best interest of her children' as Brad Pitt split lingers on
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- Published on Tuesday, 28 August 2018 06:03
- Written by Daily mail
Angelina Jolie has cut ties with her power divorce lawyer Laura Wasser as she continues to work on her split from Brad Pitt.On Monday the Oscar winner's rep shared a statement that the 43-year-old star has moved on to her new lawyer Samantha Bley Dejean. 'Angelina has decided to change counsel to Samantha Bley Dejean, as Samantha's expertise is the protection and best interest of children,' Mindy Nyby, a spokesperson Jolie, said. 'Angelina appreciates Laura's cooperation in transitioning the case over the past several weeks.' Jolie and Pitt, 54, have been in a legal dispute over custody of their six children: Maddox, 17, Pax, 14, Zahara, 13, Shiloh, 12, and 10-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox. A source told People, 'Angelina remains focused on healing her family. She continues to support the reconciliation of the children with Brad.' There was 'tension' with Wasser, a source told People. 'Angelina decided to put Samantha in charge of her case. She put her in the lead a month ago, and over the past month, the case has been fully transitioned to Samantha. She has come to rely on Samantha's counsel and thought it best that she take the lead,' a source told People.Jolie and Pitt first met on the 2003 set of their 2005 thriller Mr. & Mrs. Smith and wed in 2014. They split in September 2016. The divorce between the two Hollywood stars took a nasty turn earlier this month after Jolie allegedly accused Pitt, 54, of being a 'deadbeat dad'. The actor responded by revealing he had paid millions to his estranged wife including lending her money to buy a family home in LA since she filed for divorce in September 2016.
duking it out in public, the Maleficent star let it be known last week that she has had a change of heart and wants an amicable end to her marriage. And last Wednesday, news broke that the celebrity exes, who share six children, have reached an interim custody arrangement.The agreement means that a scheduled custody hearing will no longer go ahead, ET reported.According to The Blast, Jolie and Pitt have agreed temporary custody issues for one month as a custody evaluation continues in Los Angeles.The evaluator is gathering information from both parents as well as the kids.Jolie recently returned to LA from London where she was filming Maleficent 2 and where the children were primarily residing with their mother. Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in September 2016 and sought custody of their children. Pitt countered by asking for joint custody. A judge overseeing the case has previously cautioned Jolie for allegedly not helping the kids have a relationship with Pitt and threatening to reduce her time with them. ET's source told the entertainment outlet Wednesday: 'Angelina is enjoying the last few days of summer before school starts,' adding, 'she is helping the children heal with their father.' A week ago, Jolie was seen out and about running errands with son Knox, smiling happily as she treated the youngster to some frozen yogurt.And last Tuesday, Jolie was in good spirits as she enjoyed a shopping trip in LA with her two eldest daughters, Shiloh and Zahara.
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source : Daily mail
'Don't worry, they have brothers!' Angelina assures apologetic Kitson's store owner that daughters Zahara and Shiloh are way familiar with the F-word that pervades the kitschy merchandise
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- Published on Saturday, 10 February 2024 16:28
- Written by Daily mail
Angelina Jolie and two of her three daughters enjoyed a leisurely shopping spree at Kitson on Robertson Boulevard on Tuesday afternoon.'Mom look!' Zahara, 13, and Shiloh, 12, shouted as they went to the center of the store and pointed up at the collage of 'who's who' celebrities who have shopped at the world famous hotspot, 'Your picture is up there!'Sandwiched in between photos of the Kardashians, Taylor Swift and Jennifer Lopez, the girls found the photo of their mom in a white blouse and skirt, being ushered out the back door of the kids' store in 2006.'Oh my, when was that?' Angelina, 43, sort of chuckled as she too stared upwards.Kitson owner Fraser Ross tells the Daily Mail.com, 'It was a cute 'aha' moment, when you spot your mom on our celebrity 'hall of fame' display.As they toured the store, Ross found it necessary to apologize to the mother of six for the 'F' word that was sprinkled around the store on various items that the girls were looking at.But the actress immediately put him at ease, 'Don't worry,' she laughed, 'they have brothers!'The girls picked out some earrings, and were given two LA Trading Company shirts. Zahara's read, 'Don't be a lady, be a legend,' while Shiloh's read, 'To lead the orchestra you need to turn your back on the crowd.'A burly bodyguard watched over the trio as they made their way up and down the aisles.
Angelina got a laugh out of a desk plate that read, 'I speak fluent sarcasm,' and was busy with the kids looking at the various items.After a half hour it was time to go and Angelina and the girls thanked Ross, 'I'll definitely be back,' she promised before the trio got into a waiting SUV.It was a bright spot in what has been a difficult time for the film maker and humanitarian.As the Daily Mail recently reported, she is hoping for an amicable resolution to her divorce from Brad Pitt, 54, whom she wed in 2014.A source close to Jolie told the Mail Online that her 'anger is dissolving' and she now wants to reach a 'peaceful truce' with her ex.The couple split in 2016, and have six children, Maddox, 17, Pax, 14, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 10.'When you see her with her kids she's very loving and attentive,' says Ross, 'she's interested in everything they say to her. There's obviously a very strong bond there.'
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