Angelina Jolie

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

Women line up for water at Goudoubo camp in Burkina Faso, on June 20. The camp is sheltering thousands of Malians who have fled jihadist violence in the region.

Angelina Jolie: We Need to Understand the Human Cost of Burkina Faso’s Refugee Crisis

Burkina Faso is gripped by a war we seldom hear about, even though Western ...

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...

Malone Mukwende in Birmingham, U.K., on June 19, 2021.

Medical Schools Usually Don't Teach How Conditions Look on Different Skin Tones. Malone Mukwende Is Trying to Change That

Angelina Jolie Interviews the medical student about Hutano, a new health so...

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

Women gathered in Kadıköy, Istanbul to protest Turkey's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention on March 26.

Angelina Jolie Talks to Elif Shafak About Why Men Need to Be Engaged in the Fight for Women's Rights

Turkish citizens have taken to the streets to protest their government’s de...

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...

Mother of a Srebrenica victim Fazila Efendic, the mother of a Srebrenica victim visits the graves of her husband and son in Srebrenica, Bosnia, on Feb. 15, 2020. They lost their lives in the Srebrenica genocide, which started on July 11, 1995.

Angelina Jolie Talks to Director Jasmila Zbanic About Quo Vadis, Aida? and the Role of Art in Healing Trauma

In some countries March 8, International Women’s Day, is also Mother’s Day....

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...

An empty dormitory full of schoolboys' items is seen after gunmen abducted students at the Government Science school in Kankara, Nigeria on Dec. 15, 2020.

Angelina Jolie: 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...

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...

Alex Younger at a talk at University of St Andrews in Scotland on Dec. 3, 2018.

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....

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

Women participate in The Rapist Is You, a feminist performance piece originating in Chile, during a demonstration against rape, gender-based violence, and domestic abuse in Niteroi, Brazil, Sept.2, 2020.

Angelina Jolie: How the Pandemic Is Hurting Women in a World That Already Didn't Care About Them

The UN Secretary General’s latest report on COVID-19 contains a chilling st...

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...