She's visited refugee camps all over over the world, created a wildlife preserve in Cambodia previously under threat of poachers, and created the first Millennium Village Project in Asia.
Now, Angelina Jolie is bringing her humanitarian efforts to London.
Next week, the 43-year-old actress will take part in the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict’s film festival, 'Fighting Stigma Through Film'.
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The event will focus on harnessing the power of film 'to help fight the discrimination and social stigma faced by survivors of warzone rape and other forms of sexual violence in conflict', according to a press release from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in the UK.
The mother-of-six, who is the co-founder of Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, will lead a Q&A session with Dr. Denis Mukege, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and City of Joy Centre Director Christine Schuler Deschryver.
'Artists and human rights defenders often take significant risks to tell the truth about crimes committed against defenceless women, children and men during war,' Jolie - who was awarded an honorary dame hood in 2014 - said in a press release.
'The perpetrators of war crimes often go to extreme lengths to keep the truth from being told. So I am proud to support the filmmakers taking part in the festival.'
She added:
'Stigma compounds the suffering of survivors of warzone rape. It is an unbearable injustice on a human level, and it is a major obstacle to achieving justice for victims of these sickening acts of violence. We need to examine and change the entrenched social attitudes that treat sexual violence as an inevitable consequence of war or lesser crime – including harmful attitudes to women.'
In 2014, Jolie and UK Foreign Secretary William Hague travelled to Sarajevo to meet victims of the conflict in their on-going campaign to end sexual violence against women in war.
Films to be screened at the festival include The Prosecutors, a kickstarter backed film about a Congolese and Bosnian lawyer’s fight to get justice for survivors of sexual violence, and Silent War, which accounts by women and children systematically abused by members of the Assad regime.
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Over 2 thirds (68 per cent) of all the films being screened are directed or produced by women. The screenings will be open to the public and combine a series of interviews with filmmakers and experts on conflict-related sexual violence.
There will be screenings of more than 35 films and documentaries from 14 countries, including Syria, Burma and Nigeria that illuminate the reality of conflict-related sexual violence
The film festival is part of the build-up to the UK-hosted Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict International Conference in November 2019, which will aim to encourage international governments to take practical steps to address sexual violence in conflict, and to uphold international commitments to bring perpetrators to account.
In June, the actress-turned-director celebrated her 43rd birthday in the UK -where she was filming Maleficient 2 - by taking her children to Thorpe Park for the day.
The festival will take place on 23 - 24 November at the British Film Institute in London.
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