UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie urges the world not to forget Iraqi refugees

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. - 0 Comments

Angelina Jolie visits 'dire' camp for Somali refugees

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. - 0 Comments

New Pictures Of Angelina In Baghdad (Update: With More Pictures)

Feb 07, 2008 - she's very pretty :D The goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 32, is there on a U.S. government mission with the State Department to Iraq. She is accompanying Under secretary of State Paula Dobriansky "to learn more about the humanitarian crisis and the 4 million displaced people, 58 percent of whom are under 12," says her philanthropic adviser, Trevor Neilson. - 13 Comments

Staying In Iraq To Help

Feb 28, 2008 - Staying In Iraq To Help We have finally reached a point where humanitarian assistance, from us and others, can have an impact. By Angelina Jolie Thursday, February 28, 2008; 1:15 PM The request is familiar to American ears: "Bring them home." But in Iraq, where I've just met with American and Iraqi leaders, the phrase carries a different meaning. - 5 Comments

Angelina Goes to Iraq

Aug 28, 2007 - Angelina Jolie is in Iraq to witness firsthand the humanitarian crisis there, the United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR has announced. The actress and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, 32, flew from New York to Syria on Monday. In Damascus, she visited a UNHCR registration center and spend hours talking to Iraqi refugees in their homes. - 5 Comments

Angelina Jolie in Baghdad: 'There doesn't seem to be a coherent plan' to help displaced Iraqis

Feb 07, 2008 - Damon: First of all thank you obviously for your time. What is your main aim in this visit - what are you trying to acomplish while you are out here? Jolie: Well I came to the region about 6 months ago, I first went to Syria because I work with U.N.H.C.R. - 4 Comments

Brad and Angelina donate $1 Million in aid to Darfur.

May 11, 2007 - WASHINGTON: A foundation headed by actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt has donated $1 million (€740,000) for use in the relief effort in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region and neighboring Chad, where hordes of Darfurians are in camps or homeless. The Washington office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees announced the donation Thursday and said it was to go to the UNHCR, the International Rescue Committee and the SOS Children's Villages, a nongovernmental organization. - 1 Comment

Jolie-Pitt Foundation helps local Missouri charity

Dec 18, 2008 - In 2006, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt decided to pool their charitable contributions into one blanket foundation that could direct funds to the charities of their choice. In the past three years, The Jolie-Pitt Foundation has directed hundreds of thousands (sometimes millions) of dollars to such organizations as The Daniel Pearl Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, Global Health Committee, Human Rights Watch and Global Action for Children. Jolie and Pitt support the Jolie-Pitt Foundation in addition to the individual charities that they have either started or work in concert with, like Make It Right (in Louisiana), The Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation (in Cambodia) and the UNHCR (for which Angelina is a special goodwill ambassador). - 0 Comments