Angelina Jolie Jets Out Of NYC After World Refugee Day Speech - Watch Here!
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- Published on Tuesday, 21 June 2016 17:41
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Angelina Jolie is gorgeous as she makes sure to sign a few autographs before catching a flight out of John F. Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday (June 21) in New York City.The day before, the 41-year-old actress, who currently serves as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy, took to the podium during a visit to the U.S. Department of State to discuss the current refugee crisis.“Today, partly in response to this crisis, we are seeing rising intolerance and xenophobia,” Angelina expressed. “But strength lies in mastering and channeling our emotions so that we pursue policies that reduce, not inflame, threats to our security. We need leadership. We need solutions” – Watch her full speech below!
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Angelina Jolie Meets With John Kerry on World Refugee Day
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- Published on Tuesday, 21 June 2016 04:14
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Angelina Jolie takes the podium during a visit to the U.S. Department of State on Monday afternoon (June 20) in Washington D.C.The 41-year-old actress, who currently serves as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy, joined Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss the current refugee crisis.“I ask people to understand that with 65 million people displaced by conflict, we are facing a world of wars we cannot ignore or turn our backs on. To do that would be naive, irresponsible, and dangerous,” she told the audience.Angelina added, “We face a very clear choice: to continue as we are and see displacement and insecurity grow, or to come together with other nations and find a new approach, one that does not focus solely on aid and resettlement but on solution, stability, and returns.”
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Angelina Jolie Talks About Giving Birth to Shiloh in Africa
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- Published on Monday, 20 June 2016 19:06
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Angelina Jolie is opening up about giving birth to her daughter Shiloh in Africa and the struggles that other women in that region go through during childbirth.The 41-year-old actress appeared on BBC Radio 4′s Women’s Hour on Friday morning (June 17) and talked about how these problems in Africa can be easily fixed.“I went to a hospital in Namibia, where I was having my daughter, and I was in breech. I needed a C-section, and I knew I was in breach because I had had the money to have an ultrasound,” Angelina said. “But I found even the local hospital with many, many women – and this was a good hospital – did not have an ultrasound machine.”“So the amount of women that didn’t know they were in breach, the amount of babies and complications when they got into labor, with one simple machine,” Angelina continued. “But I know there are many extraordinary people who are working on this and women’s health around the world, and many groups dedicated solely to that, and their work is so needed and these solutions can come.”
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Angelina Jolie Pitt and Mary Berry to guest edit Radio 4 Woman’s Hour
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- Published on Wednesday, 08 June 2016 11:40
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Actor and Bake Off presenter among five guest editors examining topics from sexual violence in conflict to beekeeping.Angelina Jolie Pitt is to examine sexual violence in conflict and women’s health, while Mary Berry will discuss topics including gardening as therapy and beekeeping, in their roles as special guest editors of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.Jolie, a United Nations special envoy who was appointed a visiting professor at the London School of Economics last month, will host the final edition of the week in which Woman’s Hour is taken over by five guest editors, from 13-17 June.Berry, the co-host of BBC1’s The Great British Bake Off, will cover an eclectic range of topics including the legacy of the Guides and how you can express yourself with homemade presents and handwritten notes.“I have chosen subjects close to my heart. I still have my cooking badge and wonder how guiding has changed from my day,” Berry said. “Gardening as therapy – after a busy day recipe testing or filming inside, I cannot wait to get into the garden. And I’m thinking of keeping bees.”
The other guest editors include Jackie Kay, Scotland’s makar, the country’s poet laureate, who will examine topics such as how writers are responding to the stories of refugees, and living with a skin condition.The England and Chelsea footballer Eniola Aluko will explore subjects including encouraging girls from deprived backgrounds into sport to develop their confidence, and balancing a social life with a busy job.It is the third year that the BBC has run a takeover week, with the first featuring JK Rowling and Doreen Lawrence, mother of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence.Last year’s guest editors included Kim Cattrall and the Ultimo lingerie founder Michelle Mone.The daily magazine programme, presented by Jane Garvey and Jenni Murray, launched a new Late Night Woman’s Hour strand last August, fronted by the DJ and writer Lauren Laverne.
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Angelina Jolie to teach at London School of Economics on women in conflict
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- Published on Monday, 23 May 2016 17:05
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Hollywood actress and former UK foreign minister William Hague become visiting professors after joint campaign to end sexual violence against women in conflict.Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie is to join the London School of Economics (LSE) as a visiting professor on a new masters course on women, peace and security, the school announced on Monday.The LSE said the course, which starts next year, is the first of its kind globally and will be run by the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security which was launched last year by Jolie and Britain's former foreign secretary, William Hague."It is vital that we broaden the discussion on how to advance women's rights and end impunity for crimes that disproportionately affect women, such as sexual violence in conflict," Jolie, a special envoy for the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR), said in a statement."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."Hague will also be joining LSE as a visiting professor.The Oscar-winning actress and Hague have become an unlikely double-act on campaigning to end sexual violence against women in conflict.The partnership was sparked by Jolie's 2011 directorial debut "In the Land of Blood and Honey" that was set against the backdrop of the 1992-95 Bosnian war in which an estimated 20,000 women were believed to have been raped.The pair co-founded the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative in 2012 to rally global action on such crimes, increase the numbers of perpetrators brought to justice and ensure better support for survivors.They co-hosted the first global conference on the issue in London in 2014.Hague said the new course would help underpin their work by developing research to help tackle the culture of impunity. (Editing by Belinda Goldsmith; Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, which covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, corruption and climate change. Visit news.trust.org to see more stories.)
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