Angelina Jolie Speaks Candidly On World Refugee Day As New TIME Contributing Editor

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Activist actor Angelina Jolie is now a monthly contributing editor at TIME magazine.

Editor-in-chief and CEO Edward Felsenthal announced that Jolie’s essays will focus on topics related to human rights and displacement, issues front-of-mind for the humanitarian who has worked with the UN Refugee Agency for 18 years.

Jolie’s seven-years as Special Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has put the world’s humanitarian crises front and center in online media. She has carried out more than 60 field missions to countries including Colombia, Peru and Bangladesh, the magazine said in its statement.

Jolie first official piece was published to coincide with World Refugee Day, June 20, with the title Angelina Jolie: What We Owe Refugees. She argues: "Under international law it is not an option to assist refugees, it is an obligation," she writes. "It is perfectly possible to ensure strong border control and fair, humane immigration policies while meeting our responsibility to help refugees."

On April 10, 2019 the actor, who returns to the big screen in October 2019, playing the villain in Maleficient2: Mistress of Evil with fellow actors Elle Fanning and Michelle Pfeiffer, wrote her first unofficial TIME essay Angelina Jolie: Why Women Are the Key to Lasting Peace in Afghanistan.

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