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PEOPLE & ARTS Wednesday 3 april 2019
Angelina Jolie: Fighting for women and justice are crucial

By EDITH M. LEDERER curity at the London School
Associated Press of Economics where she is
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — a visiting professor.
Actress and activist Ange- She said she has “extraor-
lina Jolie says promoting dinary young students who
equality for women, com- see the issue as it should be
batting injustice, and help- seen ... and are committed
ing refugees are the most to making change.”
important parts of her life Jolie said she is also working
after her six children. with ministers of defense
“But in many ways, they and NATO on changing mil-
go hand in hand,” she said itary doctrine and training
in an interview late Friday practices to make the pre-
with The Associated Press. vention of sexual violence
“It’s what I hope my chil- a priority, and to increase
dren know is important.” the number of women in
Off camera, the 43-year- peacekeeping operations.
old Oscar-winner is focused Looking at the world today,
on trying to help millions of Jolie said, “there is such an
people caught up in the imbalance, when certain
world’s crises and con- conflicts are addressed,
flicts, a passion that began and certain peoples are
in 2001 when she started cared for and other peo-
working for the United Na- ples are dismissed, their
tions refugee agency and rights denied, the fight for
traveling to camps for dis- justice and accountability
placed people often in Angelina Jolie, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees special envoy, address a meeting for the crimes against them
poor developing countries. on U.N. peacekeeping at U.N. headquarters, Friday March 29, 2019. not even in discussion.”
“There are simply so many Associated Press Despite the world being
people around the world to combat the scourge tematically, not only to de- U.N. peacekeeping, this richer and more technolog-
suffering, and with so little adopted by some of the stroy the individual but their was one major issue she ically advanced than ever
and in so much pain, and worst-affected countries, family, their community.” raised at high-level meet- before, she reiterated that
to not be spending our time including South Sudan, What’s worse, Jolie said, is ings, including with U.N. “we seem incapable of up-
conscious of them and Congo and Colombia. that perpetrators are al- Secretary-General Anto- holding minimum standards
finding solutions for them — “We tried to move the most never brought to jus- nio Guterres, the General of humanity in many parts
it’s an empty life,” she said. needle and we have ... tice. Now, Jolie said, she is Assembly president, Ger- of world.” As examples she
In the search for solutions, because we are working pressing for the United Na- many’s foreign minister, pointed to missile strikes
Jolie in 2012 launched the with many governments, tions to create a perma- Canada’s defense minister on schools and hospitals,
Preventing Sexual Violence non-governmental organi- nent, independent inves- and campaigners against families bombed in their
Initiative with former British zations, civil society around tigative body with a man- sexual violence. homes, chemical weap-
foreign secretary William the world and we are listen- date to collect and assess “We’re getting support,” ons dropped on neighbor-
Hague. It is now supported ing,” she said. evidence in cases involving Jolie said. hoods and mass rapes of
by 156 countries. Jolie said sexual violence is alleged war crimes, crimes As part of another cam- women, children and men.
Jolie said the initiative’s important for her because against humanity and oth- paign to promote the im- She noted the sharp rise in
work helped produce the it is seen as “a weapon of er grave human rights vio- portance of women’s par- displaced people from less
first international protocol war.” “It was not seen as lations. During a whirlwind ticipation to peace, Jolie than 20 million when she
on how to document and a sexual act,” she said. “It day Friday in which she is teaching a master’s de- started working for the refu-
investigate sexual violence, costs less than a bullet. It is gave a keynote address gree course at the Center gee agency UNHCR to 65
and national action plans something that is done sys- to a ministerial meeting on for Women, Peace and Se- million today and rising. q

Rockabilly Hall of Famer Billy Adams dies at 79

By KRISTIN M. HALL Lynn sings about in “Coal Pretty Mama,” listening to
Associated Press Miner’s Daughter.” the sound of trains near his
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Adams told Public Radio home.
Rockabilly Hall of Famer International for a series It was released in 1957 and
Billy Adams, who wrote and they did on rockabilly mu- was included in multiple
recorded the rockabilly sta- sic, that with no money for compilations of rockabilly
ple “Rock, Pretty Mama,” instruments, he strummed songs.
has died. He was 79. a lard bucket like a guitar He recorded a comeback
Adams died Saturday in and listened to Bill Monroe record at Sun Studios called
Westmoreland, Tennessee. on the Grand Ole Opry ra- “Legacy” in 2000.
His funeral was held Mon- dio program. A 27-track collection of
day in Spring Hill, Tennes- Among other songs he his songs also came out in
see, said Clif Doyal, Adams’ recorded in the late ‘50s 2002, which led to him per-
publicist and manager. include “You Heard Me forming at South by South-
Born in Redbush, Kentucky, Knocking,” ‘’True Love Will west music festival and oth-
Adams was one of 14 chil- Come Your Way,” and ers. He also wrote and sang
dren and the son of a coal This 2002 photo released by Redbush Classics Records shows “You Gotta Have a Duck gospel music, and one of
miner who worked in the rockabilly Hall of Famer Billy Adams performing in Hemsby, Tail.” the songs he penned was
Van Lear coal mine, the England. Adams told PRI he was “I Saw A Man,” a hit for the
same place that Loretta Associated Press inspired to write “Rock, Happy Goodman Family.q