Angelina Jolie Is Returning To London To Fight Stigma Of Sexual Violence With Film Festival
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- Published on Wednesday, 21 November 2018 19:29
- Written by Elle
The 43-year-old will take part in the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict’s film festival in London later this month.She's visited refugee camps all over over the world, created a wildlife preserve in Cambodia previously under threat of poachers, and created the first Millennium Village Project in Asia.Now, Angelina Jolie is bringing her humanitarian efforts to London.Next week, the 43-year-old actress will take part in the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict’s film festival, 'Fighting Stigma Through Film'. The event will focus on harnessing the power of film 'to help fight the discrimination and social stigma faced by survivors of warzone rape and other forms of sexual violence in conflict', according to a press release from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in the UK.The mother-of-six, who is the co-founder of Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, will lead a Q&A session with Dr. Denis Mukege, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and City of Joy Centre Director Christine Schuler Deschryver.
'Artists and human rights defenders often take significant risks to tell the truth about crimes committed against defenceless women, children and men during war,' Jolie - who was awarded an honorary dame hood in 2014 - said in a press release.'The perpetrators of war crimes often go to extreme lengths to keep the truth from being told. So I am proud to support the filmmakers taking part in the festival.' She added: 'Stigma compounds the suffering of survivors of warzone rape. It is an unbearable injustice on a human level, and it is a major obstacle to achieving justice for victims of these sickening acts of violence. We need to examine and change the entrenched social attitudes that treat sexual violence as an inevitable consequence of war or lesser crime – including harmful attitudes to women.'
In 2014, Jolie and UK Foreign Secretary William Hague travelled to Sarajevo to meet victims of the conflict in their on-going campaign to end sexual violence against women in war.Films to be screened at the festival include The Prosecutors, a kickstarter backed film about a Congolese and Bosnian lawyer’s fight to get justice for survivors of sexual violence, and Silent War, which accounts by women and children systematically abused by members of the Assad regime.
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source : Elle 
Angelina Jolie beams proudly as she watches daughter Vivienne practice karate in Los Angeles
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- Published on Tuesday, 20 November 2018 07:48
- Written by Daily mail
She has kicked butt as Lara Croft, Mrs Smith, and Master Tigress.And Angelina Jolie was clearly delighted the apple has not fallen far from the tree as she watched daughter Vivienne practice karate on Monday night.The proud mama was spotted beaming as she silently spectated her youngest daughter training at her martial arts class in Los Angeles.The 43-year-old could not hide her delight as she stood at the back of the dojo, wrapped in a long grey shawl.With her sunglasses perched on her head and a cup of Starbucks coffee clutched to her chest, she stood alongside one of the Kenpo instructors as the students performed.Along with her ten-year-old twin brother Knox, Vivenne is the screen siren's youngest child of six with ex Brad Pitt.The former couple also share 12-year-old Shiloh, 13-year-old Zahara, 14-year-old Pax, and 17-year-old Maddox.In December, the pair are slated to duke it out in a Los Angeles courtroom over custody of the kids.They were reported to have reached an interim custody agreement regarding their six children in late summer.But negotiations appear to have broken down, and next month, the couple will ask a judge to rule on the custody battle.Angelina is asking for full custody, while her A-list ex wants a shared custody agreement. In addition, the judge will weigh in on dividing up their shared property, after it was revealed they had no prenup.
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source : Daily Mail
Angelina Jolie Crushing On David Beckham?
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- Published on Wednesday, 14 November 2018 06:33
- Written by Gossip Cop
One of this week’s tabloids claims Angelina Jolie has been “quietly crushing” on David Beckham for years and recently began sending him secret texts. Gossip Cop can exclusively debunk the made-up story. We’re told it’s completely untrue.According to NW, the actress has been messaging the former soccer star about collaborating on a charity project together, but it’s really a scheme to get to know him better. An alleged insider tells the magazine, “Ange and David came very close to working with each other several years ago for an ad campaign, and she’s never been able to get him out of her mind since. She’s always had a crush on him.” The outlet’s supposed source goes on to say Jolie “got his contact details from one of their mutual pals and is trying to set up a get-together.” A second ulterior motive for teaming up with Beckham, according to the tipster, is to repair her image amid her custody battle with Brad Pitt. “Everyone loves David. He’s very popular with the fans and she would look good standing next to him,” adds the suspicious source. “He can do no wrong, so hitching her wagon to him would be a smart PR move.” The seemingly nonexistent “insider” also maintains that Jolie “thinks they have lots in common – besides beauty and brains,” and hopes he’ll “teach some of his soccer moves” to her daughter Shiloh, “who’s a keen player.” From there, the outlet speculates that Beckham’s wife Victoria won’t be happy about the actress reaching out to her husband, “given Ange’s ‘man-eater’ reputation.” The “source” adds, “Victoria pouts and kicks up a stink whenever David is seen getting friendly with other women, so there’s little doubt she is telling him not to sign up for any projects with Angelina.” Despite what the magazine’s anonymous and untraceable “insider” claims, Gossip Cop checked in with Beckham’s spokesperson, who tells us on the record that the story is untrue. We’re assured that Jolie hasn’t reached out to the soccer star about teaming up on a charity project.Meanwhile, it’s been reported by several reputable outlets that Jolie “has no interest in dating” and is only focused on her six children. That remains especially true now that the actress’s custody battle is expected to go to trial. It certainly wouldn’t bode well for Jolie’s “image” or legal case if she were to try and steal a married man who shares four kids with his wife of nearly 20 years. The outlet’s premise is both flawed and absurd.It’s worth noting, NW is the same unreliable tabloid that Gossip Cop busted last month for falsely claiming that Jolie was dating Keanu Reeves. This latest phony article makes no mention of what happened to that supposed romance. And earlier this year, the outlet made up a story about Jolie “crushing on” Chris Hemsworth. It’s clear the tabloid just enjoys arbitrarily linking the actress to random famous men.
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source : Gossip Cop
Angelina Jolie to adopt orphan baby from Syria
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- Published on Tuesday, 06 November 2018 11:49
- Written by Express
ANGELINA Jolie is set to adopt an orphan baby from war-torn Syria as a "single mom" say friends. The American actress and estranged husband Brad Pitt had intended to rescue a refugee child together before announcing their split two years ago.But now the Maleficent star, 43, intends to go it alone - even though the couple are still battling over custody of the six children they already have.A source close to Angelina confirmed: "She has always wanted to help an infant from that region and saw no reason why she shouldn't start the adoption ball rolling by herself."Brad admires the fact that divorce is not deterring her from completing the plan they had together. He thinks it's a bold move - and he's promised to support her every step of the way."Earlier this month, child psychologist Stan Katz told Los Angeles Superior Court that an official custody evaluation has already begun over their children: biological Shiloh, 12, 10-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne and adopted Maddox, 17, Pax, 14 and Zahara, 13.They will all be individually interviewed by social workers and attorney Jim Fedalen, an expert in California family law, declared: "They are having their say and what they say could have enormous sway over the court's decision."
Angelina is still pressing for full primary custody with agreed visitation rights for actor Brad, 54, who has said he is "heartbroken" at being separated from their brood for protracted periods.The children could be welcoming a new sibling soon if Angelina's request to adopt another child is accepted by authorities.Her friend said: "She is hoping she'll be able to fast-track the process. In her role as a UN goodwill ambassador, Angelina has seen for herself the nightmarish fate of so many refugees. She has toured orphanages in neighbouring countries and has privately cried over so many children losing their parents."The timing doesn't bother her one bit; she's determined to push ahead with this despite everything else that is happening with her and Brad's other youngsters."
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source : Express
Leader of Venezuela's National Assembly accuses Angelina Jolie of being a CIA agent and tells her to just worry 'about the kids that are being locked up in cages' by Trump
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- Published on Saturday, 27 October 2018 11:53
- Written by Daily mail
The president of Venezuela's National Assembly is accusing Angelina Jolie of being a CIA agent a day after the award-winning actress concluded her trip to Peru to meet with refugees who have fled the once prosperous South American nation.'They are agents of imperialism, the CIA, the Pentagon, all of those entities that imperialism has to act and place a tear that runs in rivers for the world to believe that ... they have touched the heart of a Hollywood star,' Diosdado Cabello said Wednesday during his weekly television program.Cabello, a key figure under the Hugo Chavez regime and who has been at the head of the country's parliament since 2012, offered no evidence to confirm his wild claims about Jolie throughout his program a day after she concluded her humanitarian trip.Jolie traveled to Peru on Sunday as a special envoy for the United Nations refugee agency.During her three days in the capital of Lima, the filmmaker and humanitarian huddled up with some of the 400,000 people that have left Venezuela and settled in Peru since 2015. According to United Nations figures, more than 1.9 million that over the last three years have escaped the unstable nation that has been rocked by violence, poverty and government corruption.Cabello, whose parliament is viewed as illegitimate by many countries in the international community, charged that Jolie was better off 'worrying about the 43 million poor people that exist in the United States'.The embattled politico added Jolie should instead focus 'on the children that are being locked up in cages', a reference to minors that have been separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border by Trump administration in observance of the widely unpopular 'zero tolerance' anti-immigration policy the American leader installed in April.The Venezuelan political figure joked about the Hollywood star's inability of pinpointing his country's location on a map.'An actress who loves the people of Venezuela, so much that she loves you that you ask how many inhabitants Venezuela has and she has not the slightest idea, where is Venezuela? I guarantee you do not even know,' Cabello said. The assembly leader also claimed Jolie's visit was a simple ploy to distract attention generated by the mass migrant caravan of almost 10,000 Central Americans who have crossed into southern Mexico and are slowly trekking north towards the border in hopes of receiving asylum from Trump's White House.'They think that we are still a colony because they sent a deceiving actress on the screen to try to deceive the people,' Cabello ranted.'Don't let yourselves be manipulated. Fortunately our people are aware.' Jolie met with Peru's president Martin Vazcara and with Nestor Popolizio, the Foreign Relations Minister, during her three-day venture, and visited a shelter housing refugees and made a trip to the Peru-Ecuador border to witness the daily influx of Venezuelans that have fled their homeland.
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source : Daily Mail
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