1 Sep, 2010
Once again using her celebrity to shed light on a needy cause, Angelina Jolie has released a new public service announcement pleading for help in Pakistan.
The United Nations Goodwill Ambassador wants financial support to try an improve the dire situation resulting from devastating floods affecting a fifth of the country (nearly 17 million people).
Voicing the desperate need for help, Jolie said in the PSA, “This is not just a humanitarian crisis – it is an economic and social catastrophe.”
Jolie, who has already given $100,000 to UNHCR’s Pakistani flood relief work, added, “The more support we can give, the greater number of tents, food, clean water and medicine will get to the people in need.”
12 Jul, 2010
Angelina Jolie has some new ink — and the star told MTV News her intimate latest tattoo is for her partner, Brad Pitt.
“Um, it’s for Brad,” she said smiling of her latest tattoo, which is on her inner thigh, declining to reveal its significance.
Asked about what makes their relationship successful, she said honesty was the best policy.
“I’m bad at hiding secrets, anyway,” she said.
As the secretive heroine of “Salt,” though, she has to keep things under wraps — which she says might make Brad suspicious when he finally sees the action-thriller.
“He hasn’t seen the movie. Maybe he’ll question me after he sees it,” she joked. “He’ll see it at the premiere.”
“Salt” is due in theaters on July 23.
21 Jun, 2010
Angelina Jolie has braved a journey on rutted jungle roads to a village on Ecuador’s border with Colombia to highlight the abuses suffered by women and children refugees.
The actress and U.N. human rights goodwill ambassador returned for the first time in eight years to a turbulent region where thousands of Colombian refugees live.
She ended her two-day visit Friday wotj a meeting in Shushufindi with President Rafael Correa and other senior government officials.
On Thursday, Jolie was in the isolated border hamlet of Barranca Bermeja. The U.N. says one of the women she met had lost two children in Colombia’s conflict.
More than 50,000 Colombian refugees are registered in Ecuador though unofficial estimates put the number at more than 170,000.
