Angelina Jolie and son Pax, 11, visited Namibia last weekend.
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The 40-year-old actress and husband Brad Pitt's charity, the Jolie-Pitt foundation, is working with the Namibian government to protect the country's wildlife. Jolie met with both President Hage Geingob and conservationist N/a'an Ku Se on her trip, according to The Namibian."It is an honour for our family to be able to support N/a'an Ku Se's mission to conserve the land, cultures and wildlife of Namibia and to rescue threatened species," Jolie said in a statement. "I look forward to working even more closely with [conservationist] Marlice and Rudie in the years to come, and with the government of Namibia, to build on the success and effectiveness of this project which hold many inspiring lessons for conservation around the world." Jolie, not only a conservationist but a humanitarian, demanded last week that the world unite in the fight against sexual violence. "There is a global epidemic of violence against women -- both within conflict zones and within societies at peace -- and it is still treated as a lesser crime and lower priority," Jolie, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said last Friday at an African Union Summit in Johannesburg (via the Huffington Post). "Women and girls are bearing the brunt of extremists that revel in treating them barbarically," Jolie continued. "This is inextricably linked to our overall failure to prevent and end conflicts worldwide, which is causing human suffering on an unprecedented level." "We need policies for long-term security that are designed by women, focused on women, executed by women," she concluded. "Not at the expense of men, or instead of men, but alongside and with men."
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