Angelina Jolie DCMG is the of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and co-founder of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative.
She began her work with UNHCR as a Goodwill Ambassador in 2001, and in 2012 was appointed to the role of Special Envoy. She focuses on major crises resulting in mass population displacements and undertakes diplomatic advocacy on behalf of UNHCR. As Special Envoy she has carried out over 50 field missions, including 11 visits to Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Iraq since the start of the Syria conflict.
Angelina is co-founder of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI), which she launched in May 2012 with the-then UK Foreign Secretary The Rt Hon William Hague MP. The campaign strives to end the use of rape as a weapon of war by addressing the culture of impunity that exists for crimes of sexual violence in conflict, tackling the stigma and increasing the number of perpetrators held to account. The campaign was inspired by Angelina’s directorial debut with In the Land of Blood and Honey, which brought to light the use of rape as a weapon of war in the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.
As part of their joint work on PSVI, Angelina and William Hague have travelled to the DRC, Rwanda, South Africa and Bosnia – Herzegovina to engage with the survivors and local NGOs and host governments. They also co-hosted the 2014 Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict in London. Angelina has addressed the UN Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial conferences in London in 2016 and in Vancouver in 2017. In June 2017 she visited the in Kenya, where 7,000 peacekeepers are trained each year on preventing sexual violence in conflict.
In June 2014 Angelina was made an Honorary Dame Commander in the Order of St Michael and St George, for services to UK foreign policy and the campaign against sexual violence in conflict.
Angelina is an Academy Award® and three-time Golden Globe Award winner. Her most recent Directorial project, First They Killed My Father, tells the story of the Cambodian genocide through the eyes of a child.
Selected Articles and Speeches
- , Time Magazine, 21 October 2020
- , Time Magazine, 9 October 2020
- , La Nacion, 20 June 2020
- , Time Magazine, 18 June 2020
- , The New York Times, 9 May 2020
- Time Magazine, 9 April 2020
- . Time Magazine, 25 March 2020
- CNN, 9 March 2020
- Time Magazine, 20 February 2020
- Time Magazine, 20 November 2019
- , Time Magazine, 24 October 2019
- , Time Magazine, 21 September 2019
- , Elle, 5 August 2019
- , Time Magazine, 31 July 2019
- Time Magazine, 19 June 2019
- (with Heiko Maas), The Washington Post, 22 April 2019
- Time Magazine, April 10 2019
- , New York, 29 March 2019
- , Evening Standard, 23 November 2018
- , UNHCR, 23 October 2018
- (with William Hague) The Telegraph, 26 September 2018
- , CNN, 29 August,2018
- , CNN, 23 July 2018
- , The Economist, 20 June 2018
- , HuffPost, 19 June 2018
- (with J. McCain), New York Times, 8 March 2018
- , NATO, 31 January 2018
- , remarks delivered in Za’atari camp, Jordan, 28 January 2018.
- (with J. Stoltenberg), The Guardian, 10 December 2017. Also available in .
- , Vancouver, 15 November 2017. Also available in and .
- , Harper's Bazaar, 11 October 2017.
- , Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 15 March 2017.
- , The New York Times, 2 February 2017
- , International Criminal Court, The Hague, 16 November 2016. See also .
- and should be a priority for the new UN Secretary-General' (with W. Hague), ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Women, Peace and Security blog, 3 November 2016.
- , BBC, London, 16 May 2016.
- , House of Lords Select Committee on Sexual Violence in Conflict, London, 8 September 2015. .
- (with A. Helic), The Times, 7 September 2015.
- , United Nations Security Council, New York, 24 April 2015.
- , The New York Times, 27 January, 2015.
- , Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, London, 13 June, 2014.