Angelina Jolie can now add magazine editor to her growing CV. The actress and philanthropist has been named as contributing editor at Time magazine, as confirmed by its editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal.
Jolie will cover issues relating to displacement, conflict and human rights, hard-hitting subjects that she is well-placed to write about given her long-standing role as Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Prior to that, she represented UNHCR as a Goodwill Ambassador for around 11 years.
This isn't her first time she's written for Time either - in April, she wrote a piece about women's role in promoting peace in Afghanistan. For her first feature as a contributing editor, Jolie has focused on the ongoing refugee crisis, using the headline: "Angelina Jolie: What We Owe Refugees".
She highlighted that the number of refugees has increased from 40 million to 70 million since she first started working with the UN 18 years ago.
"As we mark World Refugee Day on June 20, it is an illusion to think that any country can retreat behind its borders and simply hope the problem will go away," she writes in an impassioned piece. "We need leadership and effective diplomacy. We need to focus on long-term peace based on justice, rights and accountability to enable refugees to return home. This is not a soft approach. It is the harder course of action, but it is the only one that will make a difference. The distance between us and the refugees of the past is shorter than we think."
