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Angelina Jolie in Haiti
As I wrote earlier, Angelina Jolie traveled on Monday to the Dominican Republic to visit with some of the Haitian refugees and to meet with President Leonel Fernandez. Today Angelina traveled across the border and into Port-Au-Prince where she visited one of the Doctors Without Borders hospitals.
Here’s a video clip of Angelina in the Dominica Republic with the president:
E News did a nice little piece to cover the Dominican part of Angelina’s trip, and didn’t even get snarky which… More »
Angelina Jolie heads to Haiti to visit quake refugees
When the photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at the Superbowl came out, astute readers pointed out that she was dressed in a way that was reminiscent of her humanitarian trips, especially her dusty boots.
Well, her boots were dusty but it wasn’t new dust – only because she hadn’t gone anywhere yet! However, after leaving Miami, while Brad and Maddox jetted home it turns out that Angelina headed to the Dominican Republic to visit with Haitian refugees!
Children who were… More »
Angelina Jolie’s op-ed piece on Darfur in Newsweek
I always love when Angelina Jolie writes op-ed pieces about the countries she tries to help through her work with the UNHCR.
In her latest editorial, Angelina writes about the dire situation in Darfur, a place she knows well through her visits and research to raise awareness. I particularly liked this part:
Even if justice is delayed, it must never be denied. The Declaration of Human Rights did not promise freedom or justice or peace.
Also, I think that this piece lays… More »
More photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Syria
The other day I wrote about Angelina Jolie’s UN trip to Syria, and how she was accompanied by Brad Pitt. At the time I posted I didn’t have access to any photos of the trip but over the past couple of days more photos have come out that I can share with you.
I think these are my favorite photos of Angelina, when she’s working with the UNHCR. Of course I also love to see her on set,… More »
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Syria
Sometimes it seems like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie never fail to surprise people. While we all thought they were relaxing at their home in the South of France it turns out that the Jolie-Pitt couple were in Syria for a UNHCR mission.
Angelina has been to Damascus, Syria before to visit with Iraqi refugees and she was there again on Friday to plead that the world not forget about them. The UNHCR article explains that while there’s a… More »
Angelina Jolie in Kenya – video footage
Over the weekend news broke that – as always – Angelina Jolie had quietly slipped off to do more work with the UNHCR. This time her visit took her to Kenya to visit what she refers to as “one of the most dire” refugee camps that she has ever seen. I read Notes From My Travels over the summer and so many of the places she saw sounded awful, so I can’t imagine how much worse that makes… More »
Blogathon 2009 is underway, helping refugees one post at a time!
Hi PittWatch readers! I just wanted to let you know that the Blogathon 2009 is well underway. At this very moment I’ve been posting to my personal blog every half hour for three and a half hours. I have a fair amount of sponsorship so far, but if you’d like to help me raise funds for the UNHCR to help the same refugees that Angelina Jolie does, please consider sponsoring me while I do the Blogathon. … More »
Video of Angelina Jolie meeting with U.S. Troops in Iraq
There is some excellent video footage of Angelina Jolie visiting the U.S. troops in Iraq at Camp Liberty. The only problem is the audio is unfortunately a bit low so you’ll have to turn the speakers way up, but it’s definitely worth it!
I think my favorite moment was when one of the soldiers gave Angelina a medal and she kissed him on the cheek. You could almost feel the heat from his blushing as everyone else hooted and… More »
Video of Angelina Jolie talking Iraq with CNN
Hot on the heels of the news that Angelina Jolie is in Iraq, CNN has a video up of Angie discussing the current refugee situation in that country and how this is the moment to really help them and make critical changes in a place that is so important to that region of the world and to the world overall.
I was intrigued by the way that she said she’s not sure she’s the best person to talk about this other… More »
Correction: Angelina Jolie is in Iraq!
Well. There certainly was a whole boat-load of confusion as to Angelina Jolie’s whereabouts after she was seen leaving LAX with Maddox the other day. Yesterday I wrote that Angelina was in Jordan to visit with Queen Noor and to attend a conference, however it seems that there was a big mix-up.
It may be possible that Angelina landed in Jordan on a layover and that could have sparked the confusion for many of us who mistakenly wrote about… More »
Your chance to support the UNHCR like Angelina Jolie
For the PittWatch readers who have been around here since this time in 2007, you’ll remember this.
As you all know, I’ve been writing here at PittWatch for awhile now. This isn’t my first foray into blogging though – I also write my own personal blog titled Chaos Theory. Over there I write about my own family life with a little of this and a little of that thrown in.
If you’ve followed blogs for awhile, you may have heard of… More »
Angelina Jolie always finds time to help the UNHCR
There is a great featured slideshow over at MSNBC about Angelina Jolie. It shows a timeline (from most recent, working backwards) that really lets you see how she always finds time to do her work for the UNHCR no matter what else is going on.
If you go through the slideshow, you’ll see beautiful photos of Angelina with Brad Pitt at red carpet events, and equally wonderful photos of Angelina with her so-loved kids. In between though, there are… More »
Angelina Jolie talks with Ann Curry
Angelina Jolie has been very busy making the world aware of World Refugee Day (which is tomorrow, June 20th). This morning the Today show aired an interview that Ann Curry did with Angelina Jolie yesterday.
It was yet another wonderful interview bringing important facts about refugee to light. They even spoke of one of Angelina’s first UNHCR missions to Pakistan in 2001. She talked about how, as a mother, she wants to make sure she has enough snacks… More »
Angelina Jolie talks refugees on Anderson Cooper 360
Last night, Anderson Cooper aired an exclusive interview with Angelina Jolie on his CNN show Anderson Cooper 360. Luckily for people who weren’t able to see it yesterday, I was able to find the segment on YouTube. I’ve often found CNN to be pretty generous with its news feeds so hopefully this won’t be removed from YouTube at any point in the near future.
Anderson starts off by saying how none of the segment went as planned -… More »
Angelina Jolie at the National Geographic Museum
Angelina Jolie headed to the National Geographic Museum after arriving in Washington, D.C.
She took part in a World Refugee Day conference, then spoke to the audience, addressing the fact that leading world countries need to step up and help refugees to either obtain asylum during times of tragedy or to help them safely make their way back home.
I’m hoping to find video footage of her speech; I’ll put it up if and when I do.
(edit: we’re currently experiencing a problem… More »
Photos of Angelina Jolie arriving in D.C. with Maddox and Pax
As I mentioned earlier this morning, Angelina Jolie is in Washington, D.C. today for World Refugee Day events. She arrived via private jet this morning with Maddox and Pax.
Meanwhile, as for her plans to meet with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Hillary’s Chief of Staff issued the following statement:
“On the way to the White House late this afternoon, Secretary Clinton fell and suffered a right elbow fracture. She was treated at The George Washington University Hospital before heading… More »
Angelina Jolie’s World Refugee Day appearances
Although Salt has wrapped, Angelina Jolie still has a few busy days ahead of her but it’s work that is so important to her that I’m sure she doesn’t mind.
Because of World Refugee Day coming up on June 20th, Angelina is making a few media appearances to talk about the importance of spreading awareness of the plight of refugees around the world.
There is a World Refugee Day event in Washington, DC today (June 18th). Angelina Jolie was supposed to… More »
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie donate $1million to help refugees
With World Refugee Day 2009 just around the corner (this coming Saturday – June 20th), it’s excellent news to hear that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have donated $1 million to help refugees. The funds which came from their Jolie-Pitt Foundation will help refugees in Pakistan.
The head of the UN Agency said that the situation right now in Pakistan is “the most challenging humanitarian crisis of the past decade.” There are over two million displaced people… More »
Angelina Jolie’s World Refugee Day PSA
It starts with a simple request with Angelina Jolie pleading, “Please don’t turn away”. With World Refugee Day coming up on June 20th, Angie recorded a new PSA for the UNHCR, reminding people that the plight of refugees is ongoing.
Angelina asks us not to forget them, the “most vulnerable people on Earth”. The UNHCR has been my personal charitable organization of choice for years now. On the 20th I’ll be thinking of refugees around the world and… More »
Angelina Jolie’s Op-Ed piece for Time
I knew that Angelina Jolie wrote a new opinion piece for Time magazine about the crisis and war crimes in Darfur, but since I was out most of the day yesterday I only got to read it this morning. A cup of coffee and reading about Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir is an interesting way to start off a Saturday morning, so if you haven’t seen it yet, here’s a summary.
She starts off with explaining that the results of… More »