Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Arrive Hand-in-Hand for Anti-Rape Summit
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- Published on Friday, 13 June 2014 17:17
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Angelina Jolie holds hands with her fiance Brad Pitt as they arrive at day four of the Global Summit to end Sexual Violence in Conflict held at ExCel on Friday (June 13) in London, England.The 39-year-old actress and 50-year-old actor sat front row at the conference alongside Foreign Secretary William Hague for the day’s event.A reel of highlights from day three of the Global Summit was just released. Be sure to watch to catch all of the insight and powerful speeches from attendees including Angelina herself.
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Amal Alamuddin Joins Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie at Anti-Rape Summit
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- Published on Friday, 13 June 2014 18:31
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Amal Alamuddin makes her entrance at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict on Thursday (June 12) at ExCel in London, England.The 36-year-old lawyer and fiancee of George Clooney was there to join the couple’s pals Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at the four-day conference.Amal, who is a human rights lawyer that attended on behalf of UNICEF, was spotted taking notes during the conference that day.“It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflict,” Angelina said in her opening remarks at the conference earlier in the week. “There is nothing inevitable about it. It is a weapon of war aimed at civilians. It has nothing to do with sex – everything to do with power. It is done to torture and humiliate innocent people and often very young children.”
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Brad Pitt Supports Fiance Angelina Jolie at Day Three of Global Summit To End Sexual Violence!
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- Published on Thursday, 12 June 2014 17:05
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Angelina Jolie looks chic and sophisticated in a black suit while attending day three of the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict at ExCel on Wednesday (June 12) in London, England.The 39-year-old actress and humanitarian, who is the official co-host for the conference, was joined by her fiance Brad Pitt and Foreign Secretary William Hague.“It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflict. There’s nothing inevitable about it,” Angelina recently expressed to CNN. “It is a weapon of war aimed at civilians. It has nothing to do with sex, everything to do with power. We must send a message around the world that there is no disgrace in being a survivor of sexual violence — that the shame is on the aggressor.”
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Angelina Jolie Joins Foreign Secretary William Hague for Day Two of Global Summit!
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:36
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Angelina Jolie steps out looking gorgeous as she attends day two of the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict at ExCel on Wednesday (June 11) in London, England.The 39-year-old actress and humanitarian is co-hosting the four day conference alongside frequent collaborator, Foreign Secretary William Hague.The day before, Angelina rocked an all white ensemble to speak on stage during the opening of the Summit Fringe – Check out the highlights from day one below!
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Angelina Jolie Angers Chinese Fans Into Possible 'Maleficent' Boycott
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 June 2014 12:39
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The Chinese government softened for Angelina Jolie, letting her fiancé, Brad Pitt, into the country for the ongoing "Maleficent" press tour despite the fact that he was banned from China after filming "Seven Years In Tibet." Now, Jolie's the one on the outs with the nationalists.The Independent reports that the A-lister and UN Goodwill Ambassador recently “became the subject of controversy in China, after she labelled film director Ang Lee Taiwanese, not Chinese, inadvertently embroiling herself in complex cross-Strait relations.”It seems Jolie was asked by an AP reporter during a "Maleficent" press conference in Shanghai to name her favorite Chinese director. Her answer, reprinted in the Independent and the Wall Street Journal, was arguably carefully delivered:“I am not sure if you consider Ang Lee Chinese, he’s Taiwanese but he does many Chinese-language films with many Chinese artists and actors, and I think his works and the actors in his films are the ones I am most familiar with and very fond of,” she reportedly said.
The speech was “widely” disseminated across Chinese media, according to the Chinese-language news site ET Today. Those who took issue with it pounced on Jolie’s reference to Lee as Taiwanese.“By implying that Taiwan and China are two separate countries, in a moment of excitement, a brilliant woman [Jolie] became a stupid laughing stock,” said one Chinese Weibo user, according to the Independent. Another reportedly labelled Jolie a “deranged Taiwan independence supporter.”China has disputed the sovereignty of Taiwan since a rival government was established on the island in 1949, after the Chinese Civil War. Tensions have cooled, but China still sees Taiwan as a “renegade province” they are prepared to take by force, as the WSJ reports.“It’s not clear whether Ms. Jolie knew that she risked getting caught in the cross-Strait cross-fire,” continues the WSJ story, “but her comments certainly set off a volley of scathing comments among Chinese Internet users, with some threatening to boycott her movies for, as one put it, 'disrespecting China’s sovereignty.'"The movie has yet to open in China, but has held at number two in Taipei since its opening on May 30.Indeed, the WSJ reports, there’s been a “new surge in popularity” for the "Maleficent" star in Taiwan because of her comments. As the saying must go in the very large Jolie-Pitt household: you can’t win ‘em all.
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