Un règlement du conflit en Syrie est urgent, dit Angelina Jolie en Jordanie
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- Published on Monday, 29 January 2018 05:10
- Written by Orange (actu)
L'actrice Angelina Jolie est allée dimanche à la rencontre de réfugiés syriens en Jordanie, pressant les membres du Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU d'agir d'urgence pour régler le conflit en Syrie qui va bientôt entrer dans sa huitième année.Ambassadrice de bonne volonté du Haut commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés (HCR), l'actrice américaine qui s'est rendue dans le camp de réfugiés de Zaatari a déclaré devant la presse: "C'est bouleversant de retourner en Jordanie et de constater le niveau de souffrance, de difficultés et de traumatisme dans lequel vivent les réfugiés syriens alors que le conflit entre dans sa huitième année".Situé dans le nord du royaume jordanien, le camp de Zaatari accueille quelque 80.000 réfugiés.Plus de 650.000 Syriens ayant fui la guerre dans leur pays sont enregistrés auprès du HCR en Jordanie, pays qui partage avec la Syrie quelque 370 kilomètres de frontière. Mais les autorités jordaniennes évaluent leur nombre à plus d'un million."La Jordanie, la Turquie, le Liban et l'Irak accueillent ensemble maintenant près de 5,5 millions de réfugiés syriens et constituent un exemple pour le monde" a souligné la star américaine affirmant toutefois qu'à "long terme, l'aide humanitaire n'est pas une solution"."Nous exhortons les membres du Conseil de sécurité à agir pour régler le conflit et à construire la paix en Syrie", a dit Angelina Jolie qui visite la Jordanie pour la cinquième fois.Expliquant que le HCR n'a pas suffisamment de fonds pour assurer pleinement sa mission pour les réfugiés syriens, elle a exhorté la communauté internationale à "faire plus" pour aider ces derniers et les pays qui les accueillent.Selon elle, seuls 50% des besoins du HCR pour les réfugiés syriens ont été assurés l'an dernier et jusqu'à présent, seuls 7% des fonds pour 2018 ont été obtenus.Déclenché en 2011 par la répression sanglante de manifestations pacifiques par le régime de Bachar al-Assad, la guerre en Syrie s'est complexifiée au fil des ans avec l'implication de pays étrangers et de groupes jihadistes, sur un territoire de plus en plus morcelé.La guerre a fait plus de 340.000 morts et des millions de déplacés et réfugiés.
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Angelina Jolie calls for long-term Syrian refugee solution
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- Published on Monday, 29 January 2018 05:13
- Written by SF Gate
Movie star Angelina Jolie visited a camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan on Sunday, calling for a political solution to Syria's long-running civil war and saying that "humanitarian aid is not a long-term solution."Children crowded around the U.S. actress as she spoke in a patch of muddy space between hundreds of rows of caravans in the desert camp of Zaatari, less than an hour's drive from the Syrian border.It was Jolie's fifth visit to Jordan."It is heartbreaking to return to Jordan and witness the levels of hardship and trauma among Syrian refugees as this war enters its eighth year," Jolie said after meeting refugee families and teenage girls in a U.N.-run community program."I'm very proud. You're very strong, all of you," Jolie, a special envoy for the U.N. refugee agency, told them.Nearly 5.5 million displaced Syrians are hosted by Jordan, Lebanon and other neighboring countries.Jolie said the hospitality of the overburdened host countries is "an example to the world at a time when solidarity with refugees is in short supply."She said the U.N. refugee agency received only half the requested funding for the Syria crisis last year and only 7 percent so far this year."Humanitarian aid is not a long-term solution. No one wants to get off aid more than a Syrian family," Jolie said."A viable political settlement is the only way to create the conditions for Syrians to be able to return to their homes, to end the human suffering and the strain on host countries," she added.Jordan hosts more than 650,000 registered Syrian refugees, according to the U.N. refugee agency. More than 78,000 live in Zaatari.
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Gerard Butler says Jennifer Aniston is a better kisser than Angelina Jolie
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- Published on Friday, 19 January 2018 07:02
- Written by FOX News
Gerard Butler is one of the few men that has had the privilege of working with both Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston.The "300" star was on Wednesday's "Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen" and upon agreeing to play "Plead the Fifth" was asked about his former co-stars.Butler starred with Aniston in the 2010 comedy "Bounty Hunter," and with Jolie in the 2003 action movie "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life." After immediately pleading the fifth to Cohen's first question, Butler was forced to answer: "You have kissed both Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston onscreen: Who is the better kisser?" Butler's "Den of Thieves" co-star, 50 Cent, was also on WWHL and insisted, "Now, we need to know this." Clearly bothered by the question, Butler squirmed before answering, "Jennifer Aniston. I'm just going, you know, I'm just taking you by surprise."The 48-year-old actor's actual love life was also brought up on the Bravo late-night show when Cohen inquired about his fling with "Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills" star Brandi Glanville."It was kind of a crazy time in my life," he recalled. "Anyway, we hung out and had fun and I never saw her again."
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Angelina Jolie will receive American Society Of Cinematographers Governors Awards... as her film First They Killed My Father gets Oscar buzz
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- Published on Thursday, 18 January 2018 04:37
- Written by Daily Mail
Angelina Jolie will receive the Governors Awards from the The American Society of Cinematographers will present.The Oscar winner, who is in the process of divorcing Brad Pitt, is following in the footsteps of past recipients Julia Roberts and Sally Field as well as Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg.The 2018 ASC Board of Governors Award will be presented on February 17 at Hollywood & Highland’s Ray Dolby Ballroom.Her film First They Killed My Father is Cambodia’s Oscar entry and has already received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations this awards season. She directed the Netflix project.The Board of Governors Award — the only non-cinematographer honor handed out by the group — is given to individuals whose body of work has made significant and indelible contributions to cinema.It's also for filmmakers who have been champions for directors of photography and the visual art form.'Angelina Jolie sets a high standard,' ASC president Kees van Oostrum said in announcing the award on Wednesday.'She is a true artist, with a strong vision and collaborative spirit.'She has also entertained us through her work, but more importantly has brought significant social issues to our attention. For her wide-ranging accomplishments, we are honored to present her with our Board of Governors Award.'Other previous recipients of the honor include Ridley Scott, Barbra Streisand, Harrison Ford, Christopher Nolan, Warren Beatty, Morgan Freeman, Ron Howard, Sydney Pollack and Martin Scorsese.
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Angelina Jolie won't date after Brad Pitt split 'for a very long time'
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- Published on Monday, 15 January 2018 18:30
- Written by Independent
Angelina Jolie reportedly won’t start dating again for “a very long time”.The 42-year-old actress has been single since splitting from her estranged husband Brad Pitt - with whom she has children Maddox, 16, Pax, 14, Zahara, 13, Shiloh, 11, and nine-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox - over a year ago in September 2016, and sources have now claimed the star isn’t on the lookout for a new man.An insider said: "Angelina isn’t dating anyone and won’t be for a very long time. She is focused on her children and their needs.” However, the sources also insist that Brad, 54, has been on a number of dates in the months since his split from the ‘Maleficent’ actress, but they claim none of them have been serious, as his children are more important than his love life.The insider added to ‘Entertainment Tonight’: "He's been on casual dates but none of them have evolved into anything serious. His dating life is certainly not his top priority. The kids are."It’s a really important time for him. The kids are his life. They mean everything to him.” It comes after Angelina previously claimed that she believed working with her former husband on 2015 movie ‘By The Sea’ - which she directed and the pair starred in - would help save their marriage.She said: "We had met working together and we worked together well … I wanted us to do some serious work together … I thought it would be a good way for us to communicate."In some ways it was, and in some ways we learned some things. But there was a heaviness probably during that situation that carried on and it wasn't because of the film."It was something that we were dealing ... things happen for different reasons, and things ... why did I write that exact piece? Why did we feel that way when we made it? I'm not sure."
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