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Angelina Jolie Gives Lecture as Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Details: Published on Thursday, 22 February 2018 18:45; Written by US magazine

Nobody overslept and missed this class! Angelina Jolie taught a seminar on Monday, February 19, called “Women, Peace and Security” at the London School of Economics and Political Science.The 42-year-old Oscar winner, who is currently a visiting professor, spoke about human rights violations against women in conflict and their links to gender inequality. Afterwards, Jolie took questions from the class! Jolie delivered her first lecture at the prestigious London-based school in March 2017. “Im a little nervous, feeling butterflies,” she told The Evening Standard. “I hope I do well. This is very important to me.” The By the Sea actress had nothing to be worried about. After the lesson, students took to social media to praise her speech and share photos taken with their celebrity lecturer. “She’ll make an amazing visiting professor. So honored to hear her inaugural lecture at LSE on sexual violence, rape, working w/ refugees,” one student tweeted. Added another: “Incredible lecture by Angelina Jolie.” Jolie and Britain’s former foreign secretary William Hague founded the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security in 2015. “It is vital that we broaden the discussion on how to advance women’s rights and end impunity for chimers that disproportionately affect women, such as sexual violence in conflict,” Jolie said in a statement to The Guardian last May. “I am looking forward to teaching and to learning from the students, as well as to sharing my own experiences of working alongside governments and the United Nations.”

source : US magazine

Angelina Jolie visits NATO headquarters in Belgium to discuss prevention of sexual violence against women in warzones... as her tour of Europe continues

Details: Published on Saturday, 03 February 2018 13:33; Written by Daily mail

She is an acclaimed actress, humanitarian, advocate of world peace and UNHCR Special Envoy.And Angelina Jolie was seen visiting NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium to discuss ways to prevent sexual violence against women in areas of conflict on Wednesday.The Oscar-winning actress, 42, wore a caped black dress and matching heels for her meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. The mother of six flashed a smile as she shook hands with Jens during the photocall before she was treated to a tour of the military base.Angelina met with Jens in her role as co-founder of the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative. In December Angelina and Jens united for an op-ed in The Guardian, with the actress writing how the NATO alliance could be a role model and 'leading protector' of womens' rights, and ending gender-based violence. Jolie wrote: 'In our different roles we have seen how conflicts in which women’s bodies and rights are systematically abused last longer, cause deeper wounds and are much harder to resolve and overcome. Ending gender-based violence is therefore a vital issue of peace and security as well as of social justice.' The visit to NATO HQ was the latest stop on Angelina's tour of Europe, with the star seen meeting with France's First Lady Brigitte Macron on Tuesday.The meeting was to discuss her recent visit to Jordan and urge members of the UN Security Council to resolve the conflict in Syria.She later attended a beauty launch at the Guerlain headquarters at the end of the night.Earlier in the day, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy was seen taking a break from her charity work as she enjoyed a day of culture in the City of Light with her six children.Angelina shares her kids with ex Brad Pitt, who she announced she was splitting from in 2016.They share Shiloh and twins Vivienne and Knoxwhile Maddox, Pax and Zahara were adopted from Cambodia, Vietnam and Ethiopia respectively. The family trip to Paris comes after Angelina took daughters Shiloh and Zahara to a Zataari refugee camp in Jordan last week.The humanitarian said that her daughters 'asked to come' with her to meet with Syrians displaced from the country's on-going civil war which began nearly seven years ago, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.She said: 'They’ve spent time today speaking and playing with children their own age who have been forced from their homes, whose family members have been killed or have disappeared.'Who are struggling with trauma and illness, but who at the end of the day are just children, with the same hopes and rights as children in any other nation.' Angelina served as a Goodwill ambassador for the UN from 2001-2012.During her time working with the organisation, she has carried out almost 60 field missions and become an advocate on refugee and displacement issues. In 2012 she was appointed Special Envoy, which sees the working mother focus on crises that result in mass population displacements as well as represent the UN.

source : Daily mail

Un règlement du conflit en Syrie est urgent, dit Angelina Jolie en Jordanie

Details: Published on Monday, 29 January 2018 05:10; Written by Orange (actu)

L'actrice Angelina Jolie est allée dimanche à la rencontre de réfugiés syriens en Jordanie, pressant les membres du Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU d'agir d'urgence pour régler le conflit en Syrie qui va bientôt entrer dans sa huitième année.Ambassadrice de bonne volonté du Haut commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés (HCR), l'actrice américaine qui s'est rendue dans le camp de réfugiés de Zaatari a déclaré devant la presse: "C'est bouleversant de retourner en Jordanie et de constater le niveau de souffrance, de difficultés et de traumatisme dans lequel vivent les réfugiés syriens alors que le conflit entre dans sa huitième année".Situé dans le nord du royaume jordanien, le camp de Zaatari accueille quelque 80.000 réfugiés.Plus de 650.000 Syriens ayant fui la guerre dans leur pays sont enregistrés auprès du HCR en Jordanie, pays qui partage avec la Syrie quelque 370 kilomètres de frontière. Mais les autorités jordaniennes évaluent leur nombre à plus d'un million."La Jordanie, la Turquie, le Liban et l'Irak accueillent ensemble maintenant près de 5,5 millions de réfugiés syriens et constituent un exemple pour le monde" a souligné la star américaine affirmant toutefois qu'à "long terme, l'aide humanitaire n'est pas une solution"."Nous exhortons les membres du Conseil de sécurité à agir pour régler le conflit et à construire la paix en Syrie", a dit Angelina Jolie qui visite la Jordanie pour la cinquième fois.Expliquant que le HCR n'a pas suffisamment de fonds pour assurer pleinement sa mission pour les réfugiés syriens, elle a exhorté la communauté internationale à "faire plus" pour aider ces derniers et les pays qui les accueillent.Selon elle, seuls 50% des besoins du HCR pour les réfugiés syriens ont été assurés l'an dernier et jusqu'à présent, seuls 7% des fonds pour 2018 ont été obtenus.Déclenché en 2011 par la répression sanglante de manifestations pacifiques par le régime de Bachar al-Assad, la guerre en Syrie s'est complexifiée au fil des ans avec l'implication de pays étrangers et de groupes jihadistes, sur un territoire de plus en plus morcelé.La guerre a fait plus de 340.000 morts et des millions de déplacés et réfugiés.

source : Orange (actu)

'All too often these crimes against women are laughed off': UN Special Envoy Angelina Jolie delivers passionate speech about preventing sexual violence at peacekeeping summit in Vancouver

Details: Published on Friday, 17 November 2017 04:50; Written by Daily mail

Angelina Jolie gave an impassioned keynote speech on Wednesday at the United Nations Peacekeeping Defense Ministerial conference in Vancouver, in the Canadian province of British Columbia.The 42-year-old - who is a Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - spoke about preventing sexual violence in armed conflict at the event.In her powerful speech, the activist for the rights of women and refugees touched up current conflicts around the world, while also indirectly addressing the recent stream of sexual abuse allegations in Hollywood.She shared from the podium: 'We have to ask, how is it, after all these years, all these laws and resolutions and all the horrors endured, women still have to ask for this most basic of all entitlements: the right to a life free from violence?'Sexual violence is everywhere – in the industry where I work, in business, in universities, in politics, in the military, and across the world. It affects men as well as women.Adding: 'However it is recognized by the UN one of the prime reasons why women remain in a subordinate position in relation to men in most parts of the world, and as a critical obstacle to achieving women's equality and our full human rights.' The philanthropist recently opened up to the New York Times about her experience with disgraced US producer Harvey Weinstein and described the encounter as a 'bad experience' which left her refusing to work with him.Appearing to reference her past with the discredited movie mogul, Angelina explained that unfortunately crimes of sexual violence against women are often 'laughed off'. 'The first myth is that this behavior is sexual,' she said. 'All too often these kinds of crimes against women are laughed off, depicted as a minor offense by someone who cannot control themselves, as an illness, or as some kind of exaggerated sexual need.'But a man who mistreats women is not oversexed. He is abusive.' Arriving to the summit, the beautiful brunette looked elegant in a cream dress with a deep cowl neckline and pencil skirt that she teamed with cream high heels. The Maleficent actress styled her long, thick brunette tresses to cascade over her shoulders and frame her perfectly made-up face.Angelina chatted with Canada's Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan, 47, the first Sikh to hold the post.Then they joined the representatives of 80 countries at the conference for a group photo.Angelina was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador at the body's headquarters in Geneva, switzerland, on August 27, 2001.On April 17, 2012, after more than a decade of service, she was was promoted to the rank of Special Envoy to the High Commissioner.Brad Pitt's estranged wife has made dozens of trips to areas in need in Africa, both as an actress and as a Special Envoy. They adopted three of their six children from the continent: Maddox, 16, from Cambodia; Pax, 13, from Vietnam; and Zahara, 12, from Ethiopia.They also have three of their own children, Shiloh, 11, and nine-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.

source : Daily mail

Angelina Jolie calls for long-term Syrian refugee solution

Details: Published on Monday, 29 January 2018 05:13; Written by SF Gate

Movie star Angelina Jolie visited a camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan on Sunday, calling for a political solution to Syria's long-running civil war and saying that "humanitarian aid is not a long-term solution."Children crowded around the U.S. actress as she spoke in a patch of muddy space between hundreds of rows of caravans in the desert camp of Zaatari, less than an hour's drive from the Syrian border.It was Jolie's fifth visit to Jordan."It is heartbreaking to return to Jordan and witness the levels of hardship and trauma among Syrian refugees as this war enters its eighth year," Jolie said after meeting refugee families and teenage girls in a U.N.-run community program."I'm very proud. You're very strong, all of you," Jolie, a special envoy for the U.N. refugee agency, told them.Nearly 5.5 million displaced Syrians are hosted by Jordan, Lebanon and other neighboring countries.Jolie said the hospitality of the overburdened host countries is "an example to the world at a time when solidarity with refugees is in short supply."She said the U.N. refugee agency received only half the requested funding for the Syria crisis last year and only 7 percent so far this year."Humanitarian aid is not a long-term solution. No one wants to get off aid more than a Syrian family," Jolie said."A viable political settlement is the only way to create the conditions for Syrians to be able to return to their homes, to end the human suffering and the strain on host countries," she added.Jordan hosts more than 650,000 registered Syrian refugees, according to the U.N. refugee agency. More than 78,000 live in Zaatari.

source : SF Gate

'We don't have to keep our heads down!': Angelina Jolie inspires with powerful speech about 'asserting ourselves' at Women In Entertainment event

Details: Published on Thursday, 07 December 2017 04:46; Written by Daily Mail

Angelina Jolie took to the stage at The Hollywood Reporter's 2017 Women In Entertainment Breakfast in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning.The Maleficent actress, 42, dressed in black as she addressed the crowd that included Jennifer Lawrence, Gal Gadot, Lily Collins, Olivia Munn and Emmy Rossum.The mother-of-six gave a powerful speech about how women who assert themselves in Hollywood can inspire women all over the world. The room was silent as the estranged wife of Brad Pitt said her words.'We have the right to speak truth as we see it,' said the Oscar-winning Salt actress.'We all know women who were never able to live their creative dreams because they had to put their families first, who poured their creative truth into their families.'The Vogue cover girl spoke slowly and with passion as the room full of mostly women looked on.'We all know that our industry lacks diversity and equality and that there's so much we have to change.'Jolie was most likely referring to the pay gap where females are paid a fraction of what male stars earn. 'But we have a level of freedom that is unimaginable for millions of other women around the world,' added the UN spokesperson.'Women who live with conflict and terrorism and displacement and poverty who never get a chance, whose voices are always silenced.'And the Tomb Raider star reminded the room that they have privileges most don't. 'We don't have to keep our heads down, we don't have to think the film we made... could land us in prison where we might be tortured or punished.'
She further drove home her point by saying: 'We don't have to worry that a play we did or what will be seen on TV will bring dishonor to our families.'We don't have to tailor out clothes or our pinions to what is acceptable to religious authority of violent extremist groups.'Angelina also said that 'we have the right to think freely and speak freely and put forward our ideas on equal terms.'There are women across the world just trying to have a voice trying to have an opinion.' Then the superstar brought her speech back to what happens in Hollywood and how these ladies in the room are role models. 'Asserting ourselves as female artists represents something really, really important in the world today,' said the star.Angelina last directed First They Killed My Father for Netflix. The star is committed to star in the sequel to Maleficent for Disney.

source : Daily Mail

Angelina Jolie lends her star power to international peacekeeping summit in Canada

Details: Published on Friday, 10 November 2017 07:53; Written by CBC

Angelina Jolie will deliver a keynote address at next week's international peacekeeping summit in Vancouver, her office has confirmed to CBC News.More than 80 countries have so far said they will attend the two-day United Nations ministerial meeting beginning on Nov. 14, where improving the gender balance of peacekeeping operations will be one of the overarching themes.The Academy Award-winner and special envoy of the United Nations' High Commissioner for Refugees will deliver her remarks on the second day of the summit. The content of her address is not known but she is expected to broach issues she has touched on many times in the past, including the prevention of sexual violence in conflict and justice for victims. According to a draft program obtained by The Canadian Press, the other major address at the summit will be delivered by Patrick Shanahan, the U.S. deputy secretary of defence.More than five years ago Jolie and former British foreign secretary William Hague launched the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative. Last year she made a surprise appearance at the first UN Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial meeting in London, where she called for the prosecution of peacekeepers accused of sexual exploitation and abuse, as well as the deployment of more women peacekeepers."Peacekeeping forces can only gain and keep the trust of local populations if they are able to engage with women as well as men in that community," she told delegates in the room.Jolie told the delegates that numbers alone won't resolve conflicts and that modern peacekeeping must have ''the rights and protection and involvement of women at its heart." Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan was among the 80 or so defence ministers at the 2016 UN meeting, where he reaffirmed Canada's commitment to playing a leadership role in peace operations."Conflicts today are more complex than ever before, and we're serious about being part of the solution," he told delegates. "That's the reason we're bringing our resources and skills to the table."It's expected Ottawa will announce the long-awaited details of that contribution either at or right before the peacekeeping summit next week.

source : CBC