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Angelina Jolie, Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), has a dream – she is hoping for a year of accountability. Jolie’s essay in The Economist’s “The World in 2008” pulled no punches as she gave evidence on what accountability is needed for and how it can change, and has changed, the destructive spiral of vengeance around the world… (click to continue)
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Angelina Jolie is slated to take a stab at Horror in Bitten (2006). She will play a woman, bitten by a werewolf, leaves her wolf pack for a normal human life where she begins a career and falls in love. She is drawn back into the pack when a rogue band of werewolfs threatens the world she now loves.
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Angelina has been travelling to refugee camps around the world since filming Tomb Raider. During her missions she has visited places including Sudan’s war-torn Darfur, Sierra Leone, Cambodia and Tanzania. She ... visited Afghan refugees in Pakistan and donated $1 million to help.
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With increasing experience, Jolie became more involved in promoting humanitarian causes on a political level. She regularly attends World Refugee Day in Washington, D.C., and she was an invited speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2005 and 2006. Jolie ... began lobbying humanitarian interests in the U.S. capital, where she met with congressmen and senators at least 20 times from 2003.[45] She explained in Forbes:
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Surely the most popular tattooed female celebrity in the world today has to be Angelina Jolie. This gifted actress, who is blessed with stunning good looks, has at least a dozen tattoos, and shows no signs of slowing down her collecting. Her tattoos are a reflection of her personality, exotic and with more than just a hint of dangerous sensuality. This is a babe with an edge and a true ink aficionado. A woman who professes she likes to play with knives in bed and has the name of the man she loves tattooed on her. And when he exits stage left, she doesn't hesitate to have it lasered off just as quickly.
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During an extended stay in Namibia, as she awaited the birth of her daughter, Jolie promoted the Global Education Week in an interview with NBC; she urged for the wealthy nations to help all the world’s children go to school. She ... took part in a conference call with UK Chancellor Gordon Brown, who has pledged an extra $16 billion towards universal free education.
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