‘People try to stop us speaking up’: Angelina Jolie’s lessons from young activists

The actor's latest project is a book to teach teenagers their rights. Here, she sits down with four young people to hear what they're fighting for

Read an interview with Jolie here

Angelina Jolie How do you feel the older generation are handling things?

Christina Adane, 17, a British anti-poverty campaigner, originally from Ethiopia If you'd asked me a year ago, I'd have said they had failed us and left us with a bunch of problems. I still feel that way at times, but I think cross-generational communication is crucial when fighting issues like racial and climate justice. It's easy to fall into the mentality of us v them, youth v old people in power. But loads of older people want to help us. So it's about connecting with decision-makers and ensuring they are listening, so they can represent us where we are not represented - in government, at meetings at the top of companies. We need to work with the older generation.