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Angelina Jolie
Jolie, a TIME contributing editor, is an Academy Award–winning actor and humanitarian
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Angelina Jolie: The World Must Not Look Away From Afghanistan's Women
Peace built on the oppression of women is no peace at all, but a society constantly at war with itself.
By Angelina Jolie
August 15, 2022
On World Refugee Day, Let's Commit To Finding a Better Way
We have to recognize that our systems for preventing conflict and mass human displacement, and defending human rights, are not working
By Angelina Jolie
June 20, 2022
'Someone Has to Say What Happened to Us.' Angelina Jolie Talks to Activist Nadia Murad About Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War
The UN Security Council met this week as chilling reports emerge of rape and sexual violence being used against women and children during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. One of the speakers was Nobel Laureate...
By Angelina Jolie
April 15, 2022
Meet Orion Jean, TIME's Kid of the Year
Jean, 11, sees the world as it could be if more people brought their communities together
By Angelina Jolie
February 9, 2022
'We Cannot Rest in Our Fight.' Angelina Jolie Talks to Dr. Denis Mukwege About Supporting Victims of Sexual Violence
Soft spoken, with a steady smile and deeply reassuring manner, Dr. Denis Mukwege is exactly the person you would want at your side if you were faced with a health crisis. He is known globally...
By Angelina Jolie
December 1, 2021
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
Angelina Jolie: Your Kids Don’t Want You to Be Perfect. They Just Want You to Be Honest
TIME contributing editor Angelina Jolie guest-edited a special edition of TIME's Parents newsletter. Sign up to read it and get weekly parenting tips and links. Dear Parents, I am thinking of you. I am imagining...
By Angelina Jolie
April 24, 2020
Angelina Jolie Talks to Mariane Pearl About Overcoming Trauma and the Search for Truth
I have known Mariane Pearl for fifteen years, as a friend, mother, journalist, champion of the voices of women and an unconquerable spirit. We came together over a shared concern for displaced people, and in...
By Angelina Jolie
April 14, 2020
Children Seem to Be Less Vulnerable to the Coronavirus. Here's How the Pandemic May Still Put Them at Risk
Of the many ways that the pandemic is making us rethink our humanity, none is more important, or urgent, than the overall protection of children. They may not be as susceptible to the virus as...
By Angelina Jolie
April 9, 2020
Closing Schools Has Derailed the Lives of Kids All Over the World. Here's How We Can Help Them Keep Learning
Jolie and UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay are launching the organization's Global Education Coalition to galvanize the search for practical solutions
By Angelina Jolie and Audrey Azoulay
March 25, 2020
Angelina Jolie: Why Girls Deserve Love and Respect on International Women's Day
I have spent the last two months in and out of surgeries with my eldest daughter, and days ago watched her younger sister go under the knife for a hip surgery. They know that I...
By Angelina Jolie
March 8, 2020
Angelina Jolie: The Cost of Inaction in Syria is Too High
A few months into the Syrian conflict in 2011, I visited the Jordanian border at night, where shell-shocked Syrian families were crossing under cover of darkness to avoid sniper fire. A medic at the border...
By Angelina Jolie
February 20, 2020
Angelina Jolie Interviews One of the Drafters of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Children: ‘Children Need to Know Their Rights’
When the Charter of the U.N. was signed in San Francisco in June 1945, it promised equal rights for all, but made no specific mention of children. Thirty years ago, the U.N. Convention on the...
By Angelina Jolie
November 20, 2019
Angelina Jolie: Medical Advances in Women's Health Are Important. But They're Only Part of the Picture
I lost my grandmother and my mother to breast cancer. I remember once holding my mother’s hand, as she was receiving chemotherapy, when she started to turn purple and I had to race to get...
By Angelina Jolie
October 24, 2019
Climate Change Is Already Displacing Millions of People. It's Our Responsibility to Help Them
The technological sophistication of modern life masks a simple reality: we all need oxygen, water and food to survive. But the divide between those who have the resources they need to exist and those who...
By Angelina Jolie
September 12, 2019
Angelina Jolie: The Crisis We Face at the Border Does Not Require Us to Choose Between Security and Humanity
We Americans have been confronted by devastating images from our southern border and increasingly polarized views on how to address this untenable situation. At times I wonder if we are retreating from the ideal of...
By Angelina Jolie
July 31, 2019
Angelina Jolie: What We Owe Refugees
Who comes to mind when you picture a refugee? You probably don’t imagine a European. But if you were a child of World War II and asked your parents what a refugee was, they would...
By Angelina Jolie
June 19, 2019
Angelina Jolie: Why Women Are the Key to Lasting Peace in Afghanistan
But they have been largely excluded from negotiations with the Taliban, the actor writes
By Angelina Jolie
April 10, 2019
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