Angelina Jolie Fights For Peace And Justice

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Angelina Jolie is known for her beauty, her acting talent and her six children with fellow actor Brad Pitt. She was named the World's Most Powerful Celebrity by  Forbes and the Word's Most Beautiful Woman by Vanity Fair. However, Angelina is also known for her dedicated philanthropic work.

Angelina Jolie is co-chair of the Jolie-Pitt Foundation and a refugee advocate. This week she wrote an article for Time magazine, addressing the crisis in Darfur and pleading for action.

The article was powerful and she starts if off by calling Friday "a defining moment in the history of justice." She continues, "The members of the United Nations Security Council will be presented with the results of the International Criminal Court's Darfur investigation - an investigation that they requested. Their response will determine whether there is going to be an international standard of justice that holds perpetrators accountable for the worst crimes in the world."

At one point in the article, she talks about her own experiences, "I first went to Chad to visit refugees from Darfur in 2004. On that trip - more than five years ago - the refugees I met told me that the government was organizing the violence. About a year later, the international community came to the same conclusion. Some began to call the violence "mass atrocities." Others ramped up the rhetoric and called it "crimes against humanity." Nothing changed, so as the death toll mounted, activists pushed the Bush Administration to label it "genocide" - hoping somehow that term would arouse fear and horror."

She ends the article with one short but meaningful sentence, "As they are considering Bashir's fate they are also considering their own."

You can read the full article here.

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