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Oct
08
More picture in Syria
Added 10 LQ picture of Brad and Angelina during their trip to visit Iraqi refugees in Syria on October 2.
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Oct
03
02.10.2009 – Angelina Jolie visit refugees in Syria
Angelina Jolie have visit the refugees in Damascus, Syria on October 2, 2009. for urges the world not to forget Iraqi refugees. She talk with refugees family and women in the refugees camp. this is the transcription from UNHCR site. I’ll add picture from this trip later.
Damascus, Syria, October 2 (UNHCR) – UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie called Friday on the international community not to forget the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees who remain in exile despite a relative improvement in the security situation in their homeland.
Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians have returned to their country from Syria and other nearby countries over the past year, but many more are unable or unwilling to return to a country still rocked by violence. As the Iraqi story has largely disappeared from global headlines, so has the plight of the refugees.
Jolie, returning to visit Iraqi refugees in the poorest suburbs of the Syrian capital of Damascus after a 2007 visit, said these refugees still needed vital help and support.
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Sep
13
Angelina meet Somali refugees
Angelina Jolie meets Somali refugees in Dadaab, northeast Kenya on September 12, 2009
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Jun
19
Commemoration of World refugee Day
Angelina Jolie attending the Commemoration of World refugee Day at the National Geographic Society on June 18, 2009.
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Jun
08
Angelina Jolie: Darfur Activist
Using her celebrity to bring attention to a horrible crisis, Angelina Jolie has penned an article for Time magazine urging people to end the violence in Darfur.
Speaking of International Criminal Court’s Darfur investigation, the “Wanted” actress wrote, “The evidence the prosecutor has presented is clear and compelling… millions of people have been displaced and hundreds of thousands have been killed.”
She continued, “Darfur has almost disappeared from the news, and experts now call it a ‘low intensity’ conflict. But the intensity of the crisis has not lessened for those who are struggling to survive.”
“More than 250,000 people from Darfur have lived destitute lives in refugee camps in Chad for six years now. Camps with more than two million internally displaced persons inside Darfur are even worse. Thirty percent of those displaced are school-age children. Girls leaving the camps are raped; boys leaving the camps are killed. They want an education; they want to go back to their villages, to their land; they want peace. But they also want justice.”
Source : Celebrity Gossip
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Oct
26
Angelina Globe-Trots for Good in Afghanistan
Angelina Jolie has boldly – and conscientiously – gone where no Jolie-Pitt has gone before. And that’s saying something.
The Oscar winner and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador wrapped up her first ever trip to Afghanistan Thursday after spending two days touring the region, meeting with Afghan natives and raising awareness of the country’s growing problem of reintegrating returning refugees.
“The courage, resilience and quiet dignity of returnee families rebuilding their lives against the kind of adversity few of us can imagine shows the human spirit at its best,” Jolie said.
The actress’ solo sojourn came in advance of a planned international conference set to take place in Kabul next month to deal with the massive issue of landless and poverty-stricken citizens.
During her trip, which kicked off Tuesday and prevented Jolie from attending the Los Angeles premiere of her new film, Changeling, last night, the Goodwill Ambassador traveled to several provinces within Afghanistan and paid visits to some of the largest settlement sites in the country – all told, according to the UNHCR, more than 5 million displaced Afghans have returned to the region since 2001.
Jolie also met with families forced to squat in some of Kabul’s public buildings, lacking the land, finances and security to return to their homes.
At the end of her two-day stay, Jolie called for the development of long-term national programs to address the issue and for an increase in humanitarian aid budgets, preferably to be given before the coming winter months.
“Afghanistan has been struggling to absorb these massive returns,” she said. “It’s understandable. It’s one of the largest population movements in recent history.”
It’s unclear whether Jolie herself will take part in next month’s conference, though the report of her trip will be utilized.
Source : Eonline
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Oct
20
Speaks Passionately About Refugees & Children
Taking a break from promoting her upcoming movie “Changeling”, Angelina Jolie hosted a symposium on international law and justice Friday at the Council on Foreign Relations headquarters in New York.
“Over the past seven years, I’ve worked with UNHCR and I’ve traveled around the world trying to bring attention to refugees,” she said. “It’s been a remarkable education.”
Jolie, who has visited dozens of war-torn countries around the world, spoke passionately on behalf of the victims she’s met. “I’ve seen refugees return to live among the same people who attacked them,” she said. “They are returning to the same lawlessness that sent them running in the first place. I’ve seen aid workers tear up as they put ladies on a bus and say, ‘I don’t know what we’re sending them back to.’”
Jolie’s remarks personalized the symposium, which featured a discussion by foreign policy experts (including advisers to Senators Barack Obama and John McCain) on the pursuit of justice – using courts, diplomacy, and military action – and its role in international peace. Of particular importance: how to proceed in Darfur and U.S. participation in the International Criminal Court.
“I don’t know if the ICC is the answer. And I don’t know what type of court is, or what it would need to be to make all of us agree and make it strong enough,” Jolie admitted. “But I do know this: No mother who had her children killed in front of her, no young girl sold into slavery, no boy kidnapped and forced to be a child soldier and no young girl like the 3-year-old I met in Sierra Leone, who had her limbs cut off, should be expected to simply forget. No one should have to choose between peace and justice.”
In addition to the symposium, sponsored by the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, Jolie joined Microsoft Corp and 25 leading law firms to launch KIND, an initiative to provide legal counsel to immigrant childred who enter the U.S. without an adult. Over 8000 children, many of whom do not speak English and are victims of persecution, torture or trafficking, flee to the U.S. each year and are forced to wind their way through the legal system without an attorney. KIND hopes to fill that need completely by the year 2010.
Source : People
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Jun
20
The World Refugee Day 2008
Today, June 20 is World Refugee Day. We have video clips tribute for, and Angelina have a message for this “World Refugee Day 2008″
“They have survived war, they have survived displacement, they have survived rape, they have survived hunger and disease. For those who have survived and for those who did not, we are thinking of you on this day.”
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