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Sep
27
(2000) Angelina visit refugee camp in Kenya
Picture since 2000. Angelina Jolie visit to Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya on October 14, 2000.
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Sep
19
Angelina Jolie as goodwill ambassador
Picture on her goodwill ambassador work. one is from July 2009 Angelina Jolie Listens to an internally displaced Iraqi mother in Baghdad. and another from her recently trip at Somali refugees in Dadaab, northeast Kenya on September 2009.
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- 12.09.2009 – Meets Somali refugees in Dadaab, northeast Kenya
- 23.07.2009 – Listens to an internally displaced Iraqi mother in Baghdad
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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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Feb
09
Angie in Thailand
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie visits Karenni refugees in northern Thailand (Ban Mai Nai Soi refugees camp, Mae Hong Son) on February 4.
Angelina Jolie has called on the Thai government to grant Myanmar refugees in northern Thailand greater freedom of movement, after spending a day listening to refugees tell of the difficulties they have faced in two decades of living in closed camps.
And she said “I was saddened to meet a 21-year-old woman who was born in a refugee camp, who has never even been out of the camp and is now raising her own child in a camp,” after her visit Wednesday to Ban Mai Nai Soi camp, home to 18,111 mainly Karenni registered refugees, just three kms from the Myanmar border, near Mae Hong Son.
“With no foreseeable chance that these refugees will soon be able to return to Burma (Myanmar), we must find some way to help them work and become self reliant,” she said.
“I hope we can work with the Thai authorities to speed up the government admissions process and that you will not be forced to go back to Burma if danger remains,” Jolie said.
“Visiting Ban Mai Nai Soi and seeing how hospitable Thailand has been to 111,000 mostly Karen and Karenni refugees over the years makes me hope that Thailand will be just as generous to the Rohingya refugees who are now arriving on their shores,” Jolie said.
“I also hope the Rohingya situation stabilizes and their life in Myanmar improves so the people do not feel the desperate need to flee, especially considering how dangerous their journey has become,” she added. “As with all people, they deserve to have their human rights respected.”
Source : UNHCR
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Nov
01
Angelina recent Afghanistan trip
There was a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the reality of Angelina Jolie’s role as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador this week as a video clip was released documenting her first trip to Afghanistan in her official capacity.
In it the actress, eyes brimming and her face a picture of concern, struggles with her emotions as she meets returning refugees and sees with her own eyes the difficult circumstances in which they are living.
At one point she is shown talking to en elderly man, who weeps as he explains his story. Clearly moved by his plight, the actress and humanitarian instinctively reaches out to clasp his hand in a comforting gesture.
The scene unfolded as Angelina spent two days in the Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan where she witnessed the hardships being faced by families are struggling to rebuild their lives.
Describing the flood of returnees as “one of the largest population movements in recent history,” in the narrative she explains: “They have suffered so much, yet the Afghan people are so gracious and open.”
Source : Hellomagazine
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