Angelina Jolie Pressures Obama To Do More For Darfur

Angelina Jolie Pressures Obama To Do More For Darfur

Angelina Jolie has written an Op Ed for Newsweek "Justice Delayed Is Not Justice Denied" calling on Obama to do more to help Darfur.

Jolie is a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency.

In the web exclusive, Jolie writes in part:

I believe President Obama and his special envoy Scott Gration will do their best to bring peace to the region. Their policy, though, raises a number of questions. How is the Obama administration's approach to Sudan an evolution of justice? In addition, when the administration says it intends to work to "improve the lives of the people of Darfur," I would like to know what that means, besides the obvious point that their lives could hardly get worse.

She also recommends they look a study her charity helped fund:

I also hope we will act sooner and more powerfully to prevent future atrocities. A Council on Foreign Relations report released today (funded by the Jolie-Pitt Foundation) offers recommendations..

Read the whole thing here.

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