Angelina Jolie

Jolie, a TIME contributing editor, is an Academy Award–winning actor and Special Envoy of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees

Recent Articles

Afghans Deserve So Much Better Than This

Whatever your views on the war in Afghanistan, we probably agree on one thing: it should not have ended this way. Giving up the idea of a peace agreement between the Afghan government and the...

By Angelina Jolie August 20, 2021

The Human Cost of Burkina Faso’s Refugee Crisis

Burkina Faso is gripped by a war we seldom hear about, even though Western nations had a hand in its creation. Until the NATO bombing campaign in Libya in 2011, the West African nation had...

By Angelina Jolie July 8, 2021

Angelina Jolie Interviews Malone Mukwende of Mind the Gap

Angelina Jolie Interviews the medical student about Hutano, a new health social platform

By Angelina Jolie June 22, 2021

Angelina Jolie and Elif Shafak on Why Men Need to Be Engaged on Women's Rights

Turkish citizens have taken to the streets to protest their government’s decision to withdraw from the European treaty on violence against women and domestic violence, the Istanbul Convention. As its name suggests, this human rights...

By Angelina Jolie April 17, 2021

Angelina Jolie Talks to Director Jasmila Zbanic

In some countries March 8, International Women’s Day, is also Mother’s Day. Bosnia-Herzegovina is one of them. This timing is particularly poignant for one group of Bosnian women, the Mothers of Srebrenica, whose husbands, sons...

By Angelina Jolie March 8, 2021

Millions of Children Are in Danger. We're Not Doing Enough to Protect Them

What would you do to protect a child? I met a father in Afghanistan who was beaten and tortured by the Taliban because he insisted his daughters had the right to go to school. I...

By Angelina Jolie February 18, 2021

Angelina Jolie Asks the Outgoing Head of MI6 About Protecting Democracy, Fighting Misinformation and His Life as a Spy

"We created the things that divide us, and it’s in our power to solve them.”

By Angelina Jolie October 21, 2020

Angelina Jolie: COVID-19 Is Harming Women

The UN Secretary General’s latest report on COVID-19 contains a chilling statement: “gains on gender equality risk being reversed by decades” by the pandemic. The numbers paint a stark picture of a possible 2 million...

By Angelina Jolie October 9, 2020

Angelina Jolie Interviews Vanessa Nakate About Activism and the Power of African Voices

Concerned about her country's rising temperatures, Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate, 23, spent months protesting alone outside the gates of Parliament in Kampala. Her Rise Up Movement seeks to amplify voices from Africa. The work...

By Angelina Jolie July 9, 2020

The World's Refugee Crisis Is Bad Now—But It's Only Going to Get Worse

As the burning injustice of discrimination and racism in America bursts to the forefront, we must also address persecution and oppression rising globally, depriving millions of their rights, their liberty and their physical safety. The...

By Angelina Jolie June 18, 2020
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