Jun 17, 2009 -
Thousands of Iraqi refugees resettled in the U.S. are living in poverty and need additional federal aid to survive the nation's economic crisis, according to a new report by an international aid agency.
The report - issued Tuesday by the International Rescue Committee, a New York-based refugee resettlement organization - found that the U.S.
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Jun 18, 2008 -
Via People.com:
Angelina Jolie has recorded a public service announcement for World Refugee Day on June 20, to help raise awareness about the plight of millions of people at risk.
As emotive scenes of refugees flash on the screen, Jolie – who is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Refugee Agency – explains what life is like for millions around the world.
"They have survived war, they have survived displacement, they have survived rape, they have survived hunger and disease," say the actress (who is expecting twins with Brad Pitt this summer).
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Oct 27, 2008 -
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie made her first post-twin trip to Afghanistan earlier this week to appeal for more support for refugees who are returning home.
Watch the above footage (courtesy of Entertainment Tonight) as she documents her trip, which ran from Tuesday to Thursday.
At one point, she gets choked up after witnessing the refugees' poor living conditions.
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Oct 02, 2009 -
By Dalia Al-Achi in Damascus, Syria
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.
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Sep 15, 2009 -
Angelina Jolie visited the camp of Somali refugees which is called "dire" and she told the camp has the worst condition among the ones she visited before. For more information and the observations of Angelina Jolie, you may visit UN news center.
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Jun 19, 2009 -
Angie appreciates life more thanks to the world's refugees.these are some snippets of her interview with Today's Show Ann Curry.
On her childhood being much different if she'd grown up knowing what she has learned as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador:''i think it'll have got me through my youth easier.i would have been less self-destructive....you see people that have suffered things that you will never,ever know.And you know how lucky you are''.
On making sure her children grow up knowing refugees children:''i want them to see it as an area where they can go down the street and play football with those kids and get to know them,and as they grow up,see them as those friends they spend time with.Hopefully i can raise them with a more accurate view of the world than i was raised with,maybe they'll naturally be better people.and i'm sure my children will be visiting and learning from refugees in the future''.
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Nov 09, 2009 -
I thought this would be an interesting tie in from Tulipe's earlier post.
On the night of Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall — the stark, menacing symbol of the Cold War — came crashing down, suddenly and dramatically.
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Nov 07, 2009 -
On a balmy autumn day in Vancouver, a young man is longing for a walk outside in the sunshine, and deciding against it. Far easier for him to stay in his hotel room, cocooned in five-star luxury with a mobile phone that has run out of charge, safe at least from the girls chanting his name outside. Robert Pattinson, 23 and from Barnes in southwest London, ought still to be one of Hollywood’s beautiful dreamers, moving up the ranks of movie acting, enjoying his American adventure, his guitar, his good looks.
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Oct 30, 2009 -
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Oct 20, 2009 -
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were out with the kids again – but this time they were bonding with residents of the SOS Children's Village in Amman, Jordan. The couple visited the orphan charity's village Oct. 1 after receiving an invitation from Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, who is Honorary Chairman of SOS Children's Villages Jordan.
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