Here is Angelina Jolie on the cover of Ms. Magazine. She’s profiled in the magazine as part of her role as executive producer on the film Difret, which is based on the true story of an Ethiopian girl who was abducted and forced into marriage with a captor. There’s a larger article about the prevelance of child-brides and the “cultural practice” in some countries and communities of abducting girls barely in their teens for rape and forced marriage. In the film Difret, the abducted child bride ends up killing her captor/husband and she’s put on trial for murder. Once again, it’s a true story. Angelina told Ms. Magazine:

“When I first saw this film, I was moved to tears by the story. I couldn’t believe what I was watching – what these young girls have been subjected to. But those tears of sadness became tears of joy as I watched how they fought back and in turn what they have done for countless other women.”

[From Ms. Magazine, print edition]

The film was made with Ethiopian actors and very little of the dialogue is in English, so they’re hoping that Angelina’s involvement – she came in as an executive producer after the film was already made – will get the film a wider release and more attention.

Meanwhile, Angelina was apparently just in England for a two-day interfaith meeting on behalf of Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict. The Archbishop of Canterbury was there, as was Angelina’s BFF William Hague. Here’s part of what Jolie spoke about:

Archbishop Welby held his head in his hands as Mrs Jolie-Pitt, special envoy to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees who has just returned from northern Iraq, described the suffering of a young girl there who had been tortured with an electric drill.

“Our most powerful assets are not our armies,” she said. “They are our values. As faith leaders you are advocates for the values of compassion, tolerance, justice and reconciliation.”

She asked faith leaders to help lift the stigma attached to rape and sexual assault; to raise awareness of the issue of sexual violence being used as a weapon of war; to confront those who seek to use religion to justify sexual violence; and to demand justice for victims.

[From The Tablet]

Word. I love that she’s meeting with faith leaders to move the conversation around. Too few religious leaders discuss sexual violence, much less condemn it.

Meanwhile, there are two stupid tabloid rumors floating around about Angelina. One, there’s a rumor that Marvel wants Angelina to direct their female-lead superheroine film Captain Marvel. But I seriously doubt Marvel wants her for that, and I doubt Angelina would consider it even if they did want her. Second story and this one is persistent, for some reason: “sources” keep claiming that Brad and Angelina have adopted a Syrian orphan. They haven’t. Only believe it if it comes from People Magazine, the Associated Press or the New York Times.

Photos courtesy of WENN.