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UNHCR Executive Committee Meeting

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Please join us in honoring Angelina Jolie, who has served as our Goodwill Ambassador for the last decade. During this time she has visited nearly 30 countries on our behalf, showing immense dedication to the refugee cause.

Last night in Geneva, Switzerland, she assisted UNHCR chief Guterres in presenting the Nansen Refugee Award to Yemen's Society for Humanitarian Solidarity. Today she addressed UNHCR's Executive Committee, where she appealed to the international community to further step up life-saving support for the crisis in the Horn of Africa.

Here are some photos from the past few days, plus one from our archives, taken in Pakistan, that we are now making public for the first time:

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Yemen’s Society for Humanitarian Solidarity (SHS) with the 2011 Nansen Refugee Award at a ceremony on Monday evening in Geneva. UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie jointly presented the founder of Yemen’s Society for Humanitarian Solidarity (SHS). The prize – the refugee world’s highest honour – was awarded to the founder and 290 staff of SHS, a non-governmental organization, for their life-saving work in helping the thousands of refugees and migrants who arrive on Yemen’s shores each year. / UNHCR / J. Tanner / 3 October 2011 ©UNHCR/J Tanner

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Angelina Jolie appeals to governments to step up life-saving efforts in the Horn of Africa.

In a speech to UNHCR's governing Executive Committee, Jolie said the world is getting tougher for refugees, and she urged the international community to scale up its efforts to deal with the crisis in the Horn of Africa, stating the lives of hundreds of thousands of refugees depended on it.

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Goodwill Ambassador, Angelina Jolie, visits a tent and the new temporary home of a displaced woman at Kandaro II Camp on the ourskirts of Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Pakistan. /UNHCR/Jason Tanner/September 2010

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, Goodwill Ambassador US actress Angelina Jolie leaves the UN building after delivering a speech at the 62th UNHCR Executive Committee at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi) GERMANY OUT - AUSTRIA OUT

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, Goodwill Ambassador US actress Angelina Jolie, left, walks with the Chairman of the UNHCR Executive Committee, Hisham Badr, right, Ambassador of the Permanent Representative Mission of Egypt to Geneva, at the UN building after delivering a speech at the 62th UNHCR Executive Committee at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi) GERMANY OUT - AUSTRIA OUT

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Angelina Jolie considers new role with UN agency

Oct. 4, 2011 9:11 AM ET (AP)
By JOHN HEILPRIN

Angelina Jolie is in talks to take on a new and expanded role with the U.N. refugee agency for which she already serves as goodwill ambassador, she told reporters Tuesday.

The actress said that she and the agency are still studying their options and working out the details for her to deal with refugee crises, but haven't settled on anything because they want to get it right.

"We are looking at a few countries in the world," Jolie said in answer to a brief question. "We're hoping to discuss it in the next few weeks but we want to research it properly and do it well."

Jolie is a globe-trotting goodwill ambassador for the U.N. refugee agency, visiting dozens of countries during her 10 years in the job. She also has served informally on occasion as a special envoy for U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres.

Guterres told the agency's executive committee Tuesday that the world-famous actress could serve as his special envoy "to mobilize strong international support" during particularly dire situations.

Among the possibilities under discussion are a new role as special envoy on the refugee crisis affecting Afghans fleeing for Pakistan and Iran. Pakistan and Iran host some 2.7 million Afghan refugees.

Jolie told diplomats and officials with the refugee agency that her work for them has been "moving, sometimes heartbreaking, but always rewarding, and unforgettable."

She described the refuges she has met as "the most vulnerable people in the world, and they are also the most resilient people in the world.

"Refugees are survivors, they are mothers and daughters and fathers and sons, they are all extraordinary people who have a remarkable story that tells of strength in the face of great loss," Jolie said. "They need our help more than ever."

She said she hoped increasing budget constraints among U.N. donor nations would not prevent them from continuing to open their wallets to the world's most vulnerable.

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At her press conference at the UN in Geneva, Angelina Jolie told UN staff, humanitarian workers and journalists: “I am honoured to have worked with UNHCR for the past ten years. Refugees are all survivors, they are all extraordinary people.”

“UNHCR face growing challenges, namely funding, at this time of economic crisis in the world.”

On a personal note she said: “My personal experiences with UNHCR have been moving, heartbreaking, but always unforgettable.”

On the famine in Africa, Angelina Jolie said: “The Horn of Africa is the humanitarian crisis of a generation: three quarters of million people at risk of dying."

"Remember refugees the world over. They need us now more than ever before.

Haven’t you got enough on your plate? Angelina Jolie considers new U.N. role

By Sarah Fitzmaurice

Last updated at 9:49 PM on 4th October 2011

She has been a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees for over ten years and during that time she has brought up her brood and made some killer hit films.

But it appears that Angelina Jolie,36, just can't say no to taking on new projects and is set to take on a new role in the refugee crises.

It appears that the mother-of-six will now take become a Special Representative and will work with governments of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran on the refugee issue.

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Sweet Rush in Switzerland with Angelina Jolie, @juanes , High Commissioner Guterres, 2011 Nansen award winner Nasser Salim Ali Al-Hamairy Said (SHS), Sivert Høyem, Elisabeth Rasmussen. #Nansen2011

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Pleased to welcome our Goodwill Ambassador, Angelina Jolie, to the #Nansen #Refugee Award presentation tonight

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High Commissioner Guterres presenting Angelina Jolie with a special pin marking her 10 years w/UNHCR



Angelina is wearing a white double face crepe 3/4 sleeve sheath from the Michael Kors Spring 2011 collection.

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UNHCR pays tribute to Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie
In recognition for her extraordinary commitment and dedication to refugees for over a decade

UNHCR ceremony honours Yemeni aid group and Angelina Jolie

News Stories, 3 October 2011

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SHS founder Nasser Salim Ali Al-Hamairy makes an acceptance speech as Angelina Jolie and UNHCR chief António Guterres look on.

GENEVA, October 3 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency paid lavish tribute on Monday night to award-winning American actress Angelina Jolie and Yemeni humanitarian aid group Society for Humanitarian Solidarity (SHS) for their outstanding work for refugees over many years.
Before an audience of 200 government officials, diplomats, donors and aid workers, Jolie was recognized for completing 10 years as UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, while the founder and 290 staff of SHS received the prestigious Nansen Refugee Award for their live-saving work helping tens of thousands of desperate boat people arriving on the coast of Yemen from the Horn of Africa.
"This award motivates us to increase our effort to helping those who are in need," said SHS founder Nasser Salim Ali Al-Hamairy, while Jolie told the audience, "It is an honour to work on behalf of refugees and I look forward to the next 10 years."
Lauding Jolie, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said, "She is the very best of the goodwill ambassadors that exist in the humanitarian world."

It is an honour to work on behalf of refugees and I look forward to the next 10 years.

– UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie

In a slick ceremony presided over by former British politician and broadcast journalist Sir Martin Bell, Norwegian musician Sivert Hoyem warmed up the audience with two songs before a tribute to Angelina Jolie and her work for UNHCR was screened in Geneva's distinctive 19th Century Bâtiment des Forces Motrices, a former water pumping station on the River Rhone.
"I'm so grateful to the many refugee families that I have had the honour and privilege to spend the last years with. From them I've learned so much. I've learned to become a better person, a better mother," Jolie said. "They've inspired me by showing me every day the unbreakable strength of the human spirit."
The actress, who was presented with a gold pin, has visited almost 30 countries worldwide as UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador over the past decade, including Tunisia, Turkey, Malta and Italy this year alone.
In the highlight of the evening, Jolie and Guterres presented the Nansen Refugee Medal to SHS founder Al-Hamairy, whose non-governmental humanitarian organization has since 1995 been helping people fleeing by smugglers' boats across the Gulf of Aden. SHS also helps needy local communities.
SHS has been particularly busy this year. So far in 2011, more than 60,000 people have made sea crossings to Yemen – as many as the combined number of arrivals in the last three years. It is estimated that at least 120 people drowned trying to make the journey this year.
SHS staff work around the clock to monitor about a third of Yemen's 2,000 kilometre-long coastline, pick up survivors, provide emergency care and, all too often, bury those who die en route.
"I do think they deserve the recognition of the international community," said Guterres, while Jolie also paid tribute to the Yemeni aid workers. "The staff of SHS often risk their own lives to save others," she said, describing their life-saving assistance as "extraordinary."
Colombian humanitarian and musician Juanes also took part in the tribute, performing two of the songs that have made him a superstar in South America. The Grammy winner has helped spread awareness about the suffering of hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced people in his country, including indigenous people. Somali sister band Sweet Rush also performed.
The Nansen Refugee Award was created in 1954 in honour of Fridtjof Nansen, a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat and politician who in the 1920s became the first international High Commissioner for Refugees.
It is given annually to an individual or organization for outstanding work on behalf of refugees and consists of a commemorative medal and a US$100,000 monetary prize donated by the governments of Switzerland and Norway. The winner can donate spend the funds on a project approved by the Nansen committee.
Past winners include Eleanor Roosevelt, Tanzania's late President Julius Nyerere, King Juan Carlos I of Spain, Graça Machel, late Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti and last year's winner, photographer Alixandra Fazzina. A number of humanitarian organizations, and partners of UNHCR, have also won the award, including the League of Red Cross Societies. Médecins Sans Frontières, Handicap International and the UN Volunteers. In 1986, the Nansen went to the people of Canada.
Monday's event was supported by the Swiss and Norwegian governments, the Canton of Geneva, the City of Geneva, the IKEA Foundation and the Norwegian Refugee Council, which also helped to organize the presentation ceremony.

#photo @Juanes enthusiastically performs "La Camisa Negra" at the Nansen #Refugee ceremony! yfrog.com/o0d0umj

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Admiración total por esta súper mujer que hace una labor humanitaria inigualable. UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador @Refugees yfrog.com/18hquwj