Angelina Jolie Speaks Up for Nigerian Schoolgirls & Human Trafficking Victims
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- Published on Friday, 09 May 2014 18:19
- Written by Just Jared
Angelina Jolie is continuing to speak up in support of the rescue efforts to find the nearly 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria who were kidnapped last month and to make people look at the bigger picture as well.“I think we should be very happy that the countries — now the U.K. and U.S are stepping up and wanting to support Nigeria on the ground and doing what they can to try to rescue the girls,” the 38-year-old Maleficent actress told ET Online.“But I think it’s looking at the bigger picture and understanding this epidemic of men thinking that women don’t have the right to have an education and that they feel that they can get away with this kind of behavior, and that it’s fine to just take a woman and sell a woman or abuse a woman or rape a woman,” she continued.“We have to end this culture of impunity,” Angelina added. “If people are able to get away with these crime then it will continue and it happened because so many times in the past when women have been taken raped and abused and nobody suffers any consequence for it. it is our fault in many ways that we’ve left this situation in such a way that these men feel that’s it’s something that they could do.”
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Angelina Jolie: Nigerian schoolgirls’ kidnappers are evil
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- Published on Tuesday, 06 May 2014 19:54
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US actress Angelina Jolie has condemned as “unthinkable cruelty and evil” the kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria by Boko Haram Islamists.The star was speaking in Paris on Tuesday about the themes of her latest film Maleficent for Disney, in which she plays a vindictive fairy driven to curse an infant princess.“Sadly of course there is real evil in the world, you watch the news and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty,” she told a news conference.“And it’s unthinkable cruelty like these girls that were kidnapped in Nigeria. Unthinkable cruelty and evil,” she said.A total of 276 students were kidnapped in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state three weeks ago when Boko Haram stormed their school under the cover of darkness and loaded them onto trucks.Several managed to escape but over 220 girls were still being held, according to police.In a video message, Abubakar Shekau, the head of the Islamist group which has killed thousands in a five-year uprising, said it was holding the girls as “slaves” and threatened to “sell (them)”.
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Angelina Jolie Speaks Out Against Sex Violence in Bosnia at Press Conference
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- Published on Friday, 28 March 2014 21:28
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Angelina Jolie looks stunning as she arrives at a press conference about the sex violence during war on Friday (March 28) in Sarajevo.The 38-year-old actress was joined by British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs William Hague to speak at the conference organized by the Bosnian Ministry of Defense.That same day, Angelina was spotted visiting the Memorial Center in Potocari to pay her respects alongside William.In case you missed it, watch this CNN feature with Angelina putting the spotlight on Syrian Refugees.
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Angelina Jolie Puts Spotlight on Syrian Refugees in CNN Report
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- Published on Friday, 28 March 2014 05:29
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Angelina Jolie is putting her name to good use once again to put the spotlight on Syrian Refugees in this new report that CNN aired on Thursday (March 27).The 38-year-old actress, who is currently in Sarajevo visiting with victims of the Bosnian War, paid a visit to a Lebanese refugee camp to speak with a young girl named Hala and her five siblings.“When I met Hala, and her brothers and sisters, they had been living in this camp for almost a year,” Angelina said in the video about the children, who watched their mother die under their collapsed home and don’t know where their father is.
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Angelina Jolie Arrives in Sarajevo to Meet Victims of Bosnian War
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- Published on Friday, 28 March 2014 05:14
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Angelina Jolie holds an umbrella over her head as she lands on Thursday (March 27) in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.The 38-year-old director, actress, and humanitarian landed with British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs William Hague, who she traveled with on their mission.“We are here to meet victims of the war in Bosnia, female and male survivors of rape who carry a terrible burden,” Angelina said of their visit. “The use of rape as a weapon of war is one of the great injustices of our time. For too long the world has tolerated these crimes, and left survivors to struggle in the shadows. Our goal is to bring forward the voices of the survivors of these crimes and to ask the world to stand with them and against impunity.”
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