Angelina Jolie

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

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

Concerned about her country's rising temperatures, Ugandan climate activist...

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...

Migrants from Moria refugee camp arriving by ship from the island of Lesbos, stand in the port of Piraeus near Athens on May 4, 2020.

Angelina Jolie: 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 ...

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...

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 T...

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...

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, journali...

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...

Jolie, pictured in London in November 2018

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 ...

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...

Ibrahima Diongue, 11, sits at home as he attends a math class broadcast by a local TV Channel, one of the several new measures to control the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Pikine on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal on March 17, 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 organiza...

Jolie and UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay are launching the organization's Global Education Coalition to galvanize the search for practical solutions

Angelina Jolie - International Women's Day

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 dau...

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...