Showing posts with label refugees. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 25, 2024





Angelina Jolie meeting with refugees in Chad. Photo: Karl Schembri/NRC

Angelina Jolie is continuing her humanitarian work, raising awareness for support needed for those displaced by conflict in Sudan.

On Sept. 25, the Oscar winner, 49, shared a photo on Instagram from her visit with refugees in Adré, Chad, who have escaped Sudan amid an ongoing internal conflict in the African country that began in 2023.

Jolie urged the United Nations to "scale up the humanitarian response in Sudan and the region" as the U.N. held its 2024 General Assembly in New York City.

“The people I’ve listened to have endured unspeakable violence and have lost everything. The support from local responders here has been a lifeline for refugees who have otherwise been forgotten by the world," Jolie said in a statement about her visit.

"It is incredible to see what they have been able to achieve and the lives they have managed to save, and all the time world leaders have stood silent or turned the other way.” Jolie, who worked with the U.N.'s refugee agency in multiple positions between 2001 and 2022, wrote on Instagram that the conflict in Sudan has left more than 10 million displaced within the country, while more than 2 million others have fled to neighboring countries. As Jolie wrote, some 25.6 million people in the region "are facing acute hunger."

The director-actress recently spoke to her experiences in humanitarian work and visits to war-torn areas of the world while talking about her new movie as a director, Without Blood, with The Hollywood Reporter. Without Blood follows a woman (played by Salma Hayek Pinault) who confronts a man who had a hand in her family's murder during a past armed conflict.

"I’ve never had to experience war or lose somebody through armed conflict. But I have people I care very deeply about who have," Jolie said in the interview. "I’ve seen people who have nothing give everything. And I’ve seen people who have everything do nothing."



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Friday, June 9, 2023


Oscar-winning actor and activist Angelina Jolie has signed on as an executive producer on We Dare to Dream, the new documentary from Oscar-nominated director Waad Al-Kateab (For Sama).

We Dare to Dream tells the story of the young, stateless athletes from Iran, Syria, South Sudan and Cameroon who competed together under the banner of the IOC Refugee Olympic team at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. We Dare to Dream has its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival on Sunday.

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Thursday, March 17, 2022






Spotted (again and again): Angelina Jolie dining at modern Indian restaurant Rasika.

The “Eternals” actor can’t seem to get enough of restaurateur Ashok Bajaj’s tony dining room tucked away in West End—a VIP favorite frequented by the Clintons and Obamas. Her most recent visit on Wednesday night—accompanied by eight guests—was one of many, including a dinner just last month. Representatives of the restaurant say Jolie has visited at least three times in recent memory—which, given her out-of-town Hollywood status, basically makes her a regular.

Jolie is in Washington more than your average mega-star thanks to her humanitarian work with UN refugee services and advocacy for environmental and anti-violence causes. On Wednesday, she was present at the White House as President Biden signed the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. The Academy Award winner has been a vocal proponent of the legislation.

Jolie isn’t exactly living it up when she dines out, according to sources at the restaurant. When she visited in February with six female dining companions, Jolie purportedly sipped mineral water in a downstairs private room and “didn’t eat much.” She sampled two must-try classics from James Beard Award-winning chef Vikram Sunderam: crispy spinach palak chaat and black cod.

Says the source: “She was professionally dressed in black. People didn’t even recognize her.”

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Tuesday, December 18, 2018


"Mona Angelina"

How to alleviate the refugee crisis


Our response to the plight of refugees in the coming year will be the measure of our humanity, writes Angelina Jolie, actor and special envoy of the UNHCR

Angelina Jolie actor and special envoy of the UNHCR

The number of refugees worldwide has climbed for six consecutive years. Some 68m people are now displaced by violence and persecution—equal to a fifth of the population of America, nearly half that of Russia and more than the entire population of Britain.

At the same time, humanitarian support is chronically underfunded. As of September 2018 the United Nations’ refugee agency, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and its partners had received just 31% of the funds they needed to provide basic assistance to millions of Syrian refugees and displaced people. The same dire situation exists elsewhere too, with less than half the amount of humanitarian funds needed in the vast majority of conflict-affected countries. If nothing is done, this trend of growing numbers and scarce resources will continue, with severe consequences, in 2019.
This is not a sustainable situation. The answer does not lie in countries adopting harsh unilateral measures that target refugees and that run counter to humanitarian values and responsibilities. That will only inflame the problem.

Instead, we must reduce the number of displaced people worldwide by preventing and solving the conflicts that drive them from their homes. We must rally people and countries to act together based on common interests and universal aspirations for security, dignity and equality. This does not have to come at the expense of our safety and economic well-being at home, but is an essential requirement when facing problems of international dimensions.

Rights, funding, action
Let’s look at the facts. First, 85% of all refugees live in low- and middle-income countries. Most people who are displaced by violence remain within the borders of their own countries. Those who are forced out tend to stay as close as they can to home, in neighbouring nations. Less than 1% of all refugees are resettled, including in Western countries. The world’s poorer countries are bearing the brunt of the burden. We cannot assume that they will continue to do this irrespective of policies in wealthier nations. If the number of refugees grows, as it probably will in 2019, so too will the tension this imbalance causes unless we do a better job of sharing responsibility.

Second, for all the generosity of taxpayers in the West and all the lives that are saved by this, the billions of dollars in humanitarian aid provided annually do not come close to meeting the needs of 68m forcibly displaced people, let alone if the numbers keep growing. Third, as many as two-thirds of all the refugees under the UNHCR’s mandate come from just five countries: Syria, Afghan­istan, South Sudan, Myanmar and Somalia. Peace in any one of them would create the conditions for people to return home, and reduce the numbers of refugees worldwide by millions. In democracies we, as voters, should challenge our politicians to answer how their policies address the roots of the problem.

We’ve managed to bring the numbers down before. When I first started working with the UNHCR in 2001, the number of refugees worldwide was falling. One of my first missions was to accompany returning Cambodian refugees. I met some of the many people who returned to their homes after the end of the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. Look further back in history, and after the second world war millions of refugees were resettled.

This strategy will take vision and persistence and strength. Not the parody of strength involved in tough talk against refugees, but the resolve, will and diplomatic skill needed to negotiate peace settlements, stabilise insecure countries and uphold the rule of law. A refugee is a man, woman or child at their most vulnerable: forced from their home, living without the protection of their state, and in many cases without the bare means of survival. It is the human condition that tests our belief that all human beings have equal rights and deserve protection.

We live in divisive times. However, history also shows our ability to unite, overcome a global crisis and renew our sense of purpose and community with other nations. That is the greatest strength of an open society.

In 2019 we should not leave the debate to those who would exploit public anxiety for political advantage. We are being tested today. Our response will be the measure of our humanity.

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Sunday, January 28, 2018



Zaatari Camp, Jordan, Sunday, Jan. 28










Mary Green and Stephanie Petit
January 28, 2018 03:06 PM

Angelina Jolie is passing on her passion for humanitarian work to the next generation of her family.
The actress was joined by daughters Zahara, 13, and Shiloh, 11, during a UNHCR trip to the Zataari refugee camp in Jordan on Sunday. There, they met with Syrians who fled the violence of the ongoing civil war in the country, including girls around Jolie’s daughters’ ages who were part of the TIGER (These Inspiring Girls Enjoy Reading) project, which focuses on education and empowerment even in displacement.
The trip was Shiloh’s third visit to a refugee camp and the first for Zahara.

Jolie, 42, spoke to the refugees about how they inspired her and gave her hope.
“After seven years of war, most Syrian refugees have exhausted any savings they had. The vast majority of them already live below the poverty line, on less than three dollars a day. Imagine what that would mean for your family,” she said in a speech. “Here, it means families going without sufficient food; children unable to get medical treatment; young girls vulnerable to early marriage; and many Syrians facing their seventh winter without proper shelter.”
The actress added, “Humanitarian aid is not a long-term solution. And to be clear, no one wants to get off aid relief more than Syrian families.”
 “For such an educated, capable people, it is soul-destroying to be made this dependent. So I would urge the Security Council members to come to the region, to visit the camps and the urban refugees, and find a way to finally bring the full weight of the UN and international community to bear to solve this conflict.”

Jolie’s daughters asked to join her on the trip. Their siblings, 9-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox, stayed in France with their big brothers, Maddox, 16, and Pax, 14.
They will spend time in Europe together when Jolie, Zahara and Shiloh return from Jordan.













Minister of Foreign Affairs & Expatriates - The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan











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Their siblings stayed in France...They will spend time in Europe together

- A bit unusual for them to share their whereabouts and plans.


Maleficent 2 and The One and Only Ivan, both Disney productions, both in preproduction.





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Friday, September 9, 2016




















via dailymail
By Reuters


BEIRUT, Sept 9 (Reuters) - World leaders should put finding an end to the war in Syria at the centre of their discussions at the United Nations General Assembly in New York this month, actor Angelina Jolie said during a visit to a refugee camp in Jordan on Friday.
"Ask the fundamental question of what are the root causes of the Syrian conflict and what will it take to end it," she said at the Azraq refugee camp, which she visited in her role as a special envoy for the U.N. High Commission for Refugees.
Syria's five-year-old civil war has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced 11 million, half the country's pre-war population, including many who have fled overseas, sparking a refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe.
"Besides the millions trapped inside Syria whose lives are at risk daily, 75,000 Syrians are stranded in the berm, a no-man's land on the Jordanian border, including children, pregnant women and gravely ill patients. They have had no food since early August, there is next to no humanitarian access," she said.
However, world powers are divided over how to end the crisis in Syria, with Russia giving military aid to President Bashar al-Assad and the United States and some Western European countries helping rebels seeking his downfall.
Within the Middle East, Iran and Shi'ite militias from Lebanon and Iraq back Assad, while Turkey and Gulf Arab states including Saudi Arabia and Qatar support the rebels.
On Friday U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov resumed negotiations in Geneva aimed at finding a ceasefire deal to allow humanitarian access in Syria after two other meetings in the past three weeks. (Reporting By Angus McDowall)





Azraq (Jordan) (AFP) - US actress Angelina Jolie on Friday urged the international community to come to the rescue of tens of thousands of Syrian refugees stranded without humanitarian aid on Jordan's border.
"Seventy-five thousand Syrians are stranded at the berm in no man's land at the Jordanian border including children, pregnant women and gravely ill patients," she told reporters during a visit to Azraq refugee camp, 100 kilometres (60 miles) northeast of the Jordanian capital Amman.
"None of the basic protections under international law are being applied," said Jolie, special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
"This is not a problem of Jordan's making, or that Jordan should be left to bear alone," she said.
"Jordan has been warning for years that they could reach a point where they on their own could do no more," said Jolie, who toured the windy desert camp in a black robe under a blazing sun.
"The world has known about the situation on the berm for months but no solution has been put forward."
On security grounds, Jordan has since June 21 blocked the passage of aid to the refugees and their entry after a suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group killed seven of its soldiers in the border area.
Since then, humanitarian organisations have been able to send aid to the refugees just once, in early August, lifting it across the frontier using drones and cranes.
Jolie said the UNHCR and other agencies had received only half of the funds needed from donors to provide humanitarian assistance to refugees during Syria's brutal five-year-old conflict.
Ahead of the UN General Assembly which opens at the end of September, she urged world leaders "to ask the fundamental question of what are the root causes of the Syrian conflict and what it would take to end it.
"And please, put that at the centre of your discussions," she said.
"Refugees want to know when can they get back to their home, they don't want to be passive recipients of aid, they want a political solution," Jolie said.
Jordan hosts more than 600,000 Syrian refugees according to the United Nations, a figure Amman puts at 1.4 million.








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Monday, May 16, 2016














BBC News was live.
We were ‪#‎LIVE‬ with Angelina Jolie-Pitt. She is a special envoy for the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and is speaking at the BBC with Mishal Husain as part of ‪#‎WorldOnTheMove‬, a day of special reporting about how the movement of people is changing the world. Our chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet was here commenting too. ‪#‎FacebookLive‬

video of full speech and Q&A





Kids ask film star Angelina Jolie Pitt about refugees


Six Newsround viewers have been to interview one of the world's most famous actresses - Angelina Jolie Pitt.
She's well known for starring in movies like Maleficent, but the group weren't asking her about her films...
Angelina also works for the United Nations, campaigning about the growing refugee and migrant crisis caused by war in places like Syria.

What's happening in Syria?
She talks about how her kids give her stuff to take to the refugees and what life is like inside the camps.

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A special podcast on migration including: Syrian refugees in Ghana, a Cameroonian musician living in the Canary Islands, and a conversation with Angelina Jolie Pitt.



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Saturday, June 20, 2015

















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Jolie, left, meets Ahmet Turk, the mayor of the city of Mardin, southeastern Turkey to discuss refugee camp.

 















































































































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