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Angelina Jolie quits Princess Diana’s favourite mine-clearing charity

Britain’s charity watchdog is to investigate complaints about payment protection pay at a global mine-clearing charity made famous by Princess Diana following reports that Angelina Jolie has left the board on payments.

The Halo Trust said    Chairman of the its board, Amanda Pullinger,  and executive trustee Simon Conway   received a total of about £ 120,000 ($ 180,000) for monitoring the structure and governance of charities entre May and October 2014.

Jolie quit  the Halo Trust in May last year,  18 months after joining, and an insider told The Times on Wednesday that she resigned because she was “uncomfortable” with these payments approved by the charity.

A spokeswoman for the Halo Trust, played down reports that his departure was linked to payment, which the trust deemed “entirely appropriate”.

Angelina Jolie as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Special Envoy  attends a news conference as she visits a Syrian and Iraqi refugee camp in the southern Turkish town of Midyat in Mardin province, Turkey, June 20, 2015. for   World Refugee Day

Angelina Jolie and former British Foreign Secretary William Hague  attend a panel discussion on Conflict related Gender Violence on June 12, 2015 during an African Union (AU) Summit session in Johannesburg.



She joined a panel with the African Union Commission Chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Hague and other prominent delegates.

Jolie speak “There is a global epidemic of violence against women – both within conflict zones and within societies at peace – and it is still treated as a lesser crime and lower priority,”“The near-total impunity that exists worldwide for crimes against women, in conflict zones in particular, means that we are seeing more and more armed groups turn it into their weapon of choice. Women and girls are bearing the brunt of extremists that revel in treating them barbarically. This is inextricably linked to our overall failure to prevent and end conflicts worldwide, which is causing human suffering on an unprecedented level.”

Sienna Miller and her lovely daughter Marlowe Sturridge who pointing at the camera are seen in Soho on June 3, 2015