Angelina Jolie has decided to leave her post as UNHCR's special envoy.
The 47-year-old actress and director has been linked to the UN organization for refugees for more than 20 years.
In a joint statement made public this past Saturday, December 17, Jolie declared that she felt "grateful for the privilege and opportunity" that she has had to work with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees during all this time.
The collaboration between UNHCR and Angelina Jolie began in 2001, but it was a decade later, in 2012, when she was appointed special envoy.
As such, Jolie participated in more than 60 field missions to learn first-hand about the situation in various refugee camps around the world.
Recently, she has traveled to Yemen and Burkina Faso.
“After a long and fruitful collaboration with UNHCR, she applauds her desire to get involved in other areas and, in fact, I support her decision.
I hope our friendship continues," said Filippo Grandi, head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in the joint statement.
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Jolie has also communicated her decision on her social networks.
In a publication on Instagram, a social network in which she has 14 million followers, the interpreter of
Maleficent
has explained the reason for her decision, with kind words behind which a veiled criticism can be sensed: "I believe in many things that the UN, especially in the lives it saves through emergency aid.
[...] Now I will work with organizations led by the people most directly affected by the conflicts, which give them more voice”.
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The actress has been linked to political and humanitarian causes for years.
Reviewing her latest posts on this social network, she can be seen chatting with one of her six children, Zahara, and a member of the US Congress about a law to protect victims of abuse.
She has also shared a video of her interview for
Time
magazine with Iranian activist Roya Pirenai and a carousel of photos from her visit to Pakistan, a country mired in one of the most devastating floods in her history.
Beyond her humanitarian task, Jolie remains focused on her film career.
The latest project she has embarked on is the
biopic
about María Callas, directed by the Chilean Pablo Larraín.
Currently, the actress is facing her ex-husband, the also actor Brad Pitt, for custody of their six children in common, in a media and unfriendly divorce.
Jolie has accused Pitt of beating her and one of her children during a trip on her private plane in 2016.
