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Angelina Announces Educational Aid for One Million Refugee Children at Clinton Conference

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Today at the Clinton Global Initiative, in her role as co-chair of the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict, Angelina announced a program that will aid 1 million refugee children with education during and after conflicts.

“These are the children who most need a safe place to learn, a place to heal, a place to learn reconciliation, and a place to just be children. Some think we should only provide emergency relief to children in conflict … They say education is not life-saving. All of us here today would beg to differ.”

She feels education is the key to real change.

“Education can transform the lives of children in conflict, giving them the tools to create a better future for their families and their nations. This Partnership is putting words into action and demonstrating that even in the most difficult circumstances, every child can and should have a chance to learn.”

The Education Partnership for Children of Conflictt was founded by Jolie and [Gene]Sperling as part of a 2006 Clinton Global Initiative commitment. Housed at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Partnership helps fund new education projects for children in conflict, post-conflict, refugee and emergency situations. New projects developed through the Partnership will be announced annually at the Clinton Global Initiative.

Commitments from the Partnership include assisting 200,000 Iraqi refugee children and 300,000 children affected by the Darfur genocide.

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Angelina Jolie now on Council on Foreign Relations

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

The prestigious Council on Foreign Relations has admitted our very own champion of human rights, Angelina Jolie, to its exclusive Manhattan-based foreign-policy group ranks.

Friday, the council’s membership accepted Jolie’s nomination - and Jolie now joins other club members Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell and Alan Greenspan to name a few. The Post reports the group requires “no academic credentials but looks for members who take part in world affairs.” “Bring her on,” said Dr. Gordon Adams, an international-affairs professor. “The idea of having Henry Kissinger and Angelina Jolie in the same organization is dazzling.”

The Post reports member Carol Adelman, former head of U.S. foreign-aid programs, saying, “It’s not like Paris Hilton is being nominated.”

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Angelina Jolie Millenium Project Video Part 3

Friday, January 26th, 2007

This is the final installment of the video’s originally aired on MTV showing Angelina Jolie in Sauri, Kenya with Jeffrey Sachs. These videos show what changes Angelina’s work has helped to make as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

Angelina Jolie Millenium Project Video Part 2

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Last week I posted the first installment of the videos I found of Angelina Jolie’s coverage of her visits with refugees in Suari. These clips are from her travels with Jeffrey Sachs Millenium Project, originally airing on MTV. This is the second clip.

Angelina Jolie Millenium Project Video

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

This is the first time I’ve come across this video. It contains footage from her trips as UN High Commissioner for Refugees. And if you are interested in learning more of Angelina’s visits with refugees, I really recommend picking up her book, Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan, and Ecuador
by Angelina Jolie, Caspian Tredwell-Owen

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt pledge support for Cambodia

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are teaming up with Jeffrey Sachs and and donated “millions of dollars” to his anti-poverty organization UN Millennium Project in an effort to build the economic status in Maddox’s home country, Cambodia.

Brangelina visited Cambodia in November to try and expand Angelina’s Maddox Jolie-Pitt (MJP) project that she started over 4 years ago.

Sach’s organization, UN Millennium Project will be working to help Camborians with rice planting, and distribution of basic needed items… food, shelter and medications.

Brad also said, “It was incredibly moving to visit my son’s country.” This was Brad’s first visit to Cambodia.

Angelina in Costa Rica for Christmas

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

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Angelina Jolie spends Christmas in Costa Rica

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

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Angelina with Tham Hin Refugees

As part of her work as a UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Angelina spent Christmas day in Costa Rica with (mostly) Colombian refugee children and their families.

After arriving in San Jose, Jolie made the following statement, “The conflict in Colombia is the greatest humanitarian tragedy in the Western Hemisphere, but it receives very little international attention, my Christmas message to Colombian refugees and to the millions of displaced people in Colombia is that the world has not totally forgotten them.”

Approximately three million Colombians have been forced from out of their homes and towns during more than two decades of conflict, however a large portion remain in Colombia. In addition, approximately 500,000 have fled to other countries in the surrounding areas. According to the UNHCR, the misplaced Colombian refugees make up the largest single population of concern anywhere in the world.

UNHCR said this is Angelina’s second trip to the region.

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