Tag: Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie Turns Spotlight back to Pakistan

September 7, 2010

I’ve got mixed feelings about celebrity advocacy. It’s great when they use their pulling power to highlight a cause. But, as readers of this blog will know, I have reservations about their impact on Darfur, for example, where instead of creating space for the policy discussion they have become champions of a particular analysis and … More Angelina Jolie Turns Spotlight back to Pakistan

Angelina Jolie and the Need for Evidence-Based Advocacy

December 11, 2009

Angelina Jolie uses the occasion of Human Rights Day and Barack Obama’s Nobel prize to remind us that Darfur is still far from resolved, despite being largely forgotten. In a Newsweek piece she argues that there is much work to be done. So far so good. But once again she characterises the conflict in stark … More Angelina Jolie and the Need for Evidence-Based Advocacy