Angelina Jolie

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 how hard...

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...

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...

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

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 am...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Angelina Jolie: The Crisis We Face at the Border Does Not Require Us to Choose Between Security and Humanity

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...

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