Angelina Jolie Joins Time Magazine As Contributing Editor
Posted on Thu Jun 20th, 2019 9:24am PDT By X17 Staff
She's an actress/mother-of-six/humanitarian/UN Ambassador/journalist! Angelina Jolie is adding a new skill to her roster, that of contributing editor to Time magazine, as a writer of pieces on human rights.
The multi-talented mom will pen essays on issues relating to displacement, conflict and human rights. She is well-positioned to write about this issues after having been Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and, before, UNHCR as a Goodwill Ambassador for a total of 18 years.
In April, Jolie wrote a piece for the mag about women in Afghanistan who work to promote peace in the region. Her first contribution, under her new role, will be titled, "Angelina Jolie: What We Owe Refugees." In it, she highlights the fact that the number of refugees has grown from 40 to 70 million since she began working with the United Nations just less than two decades ago.
An excerpt from her article:
- "As we mark World Refugee Day on June 20, it is an illusion to think that any country can retreat behind its borders and simply hope the problem will go away," she writes in an impassioned piece. "We need leadership and effective diplomacy. We need to focus on long-term peace based on justice, rights and accountability to enable refugees to return home. This is not a soft approach. It is the harder course of action, but it is the only one that will make a difference. The distance between us and the refugees of the past is shorter than we think."