Angelina Jolie Highlights Humanitarian Crisis

To #35 tabloid nation, demonstrating stupidity in your way is so uncalled for but then you don’t even realise that do you, poor bl**dy buster.

Oh what is that a blue bullet proof vest? How about providing those for the innocent victims of the war? What a joke.

42 sisi : here i am sisi ,isn’t angelina great,all the works she does ,she gives all that she’s got.that is why we love this beautiful lady.

ROTFLMAO….trolls are so sad, they went from thread to thread, copy and paste their old comments…no one is paying attention to them…so they are like posting the same old stupid comments over and over….Pathetic!!!!!!. Oh well, at least they are here and hopefully they learned somthing….

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors

Amitabh Bachchan
Roger Federer
Ricky Martin
Shakira Mebarak
Lord Richard Attenborough
David Beckham
Harry Belafonte
Jackie Chan
Judy Collins
Mia Farrow
Danny Glover
Whoopi Goldberg
Angélique Kidjo
Johann Olav Koss
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Femi Kuti
Leon Lai
Lang Lang
Jessica Lange
Sir Roger Moore
Nana Mouskouri
Youssou N’Dour
Vanessa Redgrave
Sebastião Salgado
Susan Sarandon
Vendela Thommessen
Maxim Vengerov

http://www.unicef.org/people/people_ambassadors_international.html

58 Estelle : 08/28/2007 at 5:21 pm
ROTFLMAO….trolls are so sad, they went from thread to thread, copy and paste their old comments…no one is paying attention to them…so they are like posting the same old stupid comments over and over….Pathetic!!!!!!. Oh well, at least they are here and hopefully they learned somthing….
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It’s not the trolls who are re-posting, nitwit.

real TITA-
from other thread. Angie can visit there because she travels on a diplomatic passport through the UNITED NATIONS! She isn’t just going over there to say hi to a long lost aunt or something. You CANNOT travel to war torn countries, especially because we are the bad guys, from America. It isn’t rocket science honey.

BAGHDAD - Fighting erupted Tuesday between rival Shiite militias in Karbala during a religious festival, claiming 51 lives and forcing officials to abort the celebrations and order up to 1 million Shiite pilgrims to leave the southern city.

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Security officials said Mahdi Army gunmen loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr fired on guards around two shrines protected by the Badr Brigade, the armed wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council.

Residents of Karbala contacted by telephone said snipers were firing on Iraqi security forces from rooftops. Explosions and the rattle of automatic weapons fire could be heard during telephone calls to reporters in the city 50 miles south of Baghdad.

In addition to the deaths, security officials said at least 247 people were wounded, including women and children.

what an amazing girl !! i luv her i’m addicted to her , her personality , her careul her family & & & also her boyfriend xD

god bless u angie & bless all ur family

Love this amazing woman. Brad and the children are lucky

Angelina Jolie UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Fact Sheet 􀂾

In early 2001, Angelina Jolie approached the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) asking how she could help refugees. She wanted to learn more about humanitarian field operations. Shortly after spending a day in briefings with UNHCR in Washington DC, she was on her way to Ivory Coast, Tanzania and Sierra Leone, where she spent several weeks meeting refugees and working with UNHCR field staff. 􀂾

During the summer of 2001 she travelled with UNHCR through Cambodia (July) and later spent a week with Afghan refugees in Pakistan (August). On August 27, Jolie was named UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, accepting the responsibility of meeting with and advocating for the protection of refugees on five continents.

For over five years, Jolie has travelled with UNHCR to remote and desolate regions, meeting refugees and field workers in some 20 countries and regions including Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Pakistan, Cambodia, Thailand, Ecuador, Kenya, Namibia, Kosovo, Sri Lanka, the Russian Federation, Jordan, Egypt, Chad, Sudan’s Darfur region, Lebanon, India and Costa Rica. She has kept journals during several of her missions. Journals of her first four missions were published two years ago in a book, “Notes from My Travels, Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador” (October 2003, Simon and Schuster).

Her more recent field visit journals are published on UNHCR’s international website (www.unhcr.org/goodwill). REFUGEE RIGHTS – Children & Schools: In addition to her field work, Jolie is a dedicated advocate for refugee rights, meeting with senior government officials in many countries. She is also active with schools and promotion of UNHCR’s education materials. For the past four years, she has been the honorary patron of the annual World Refugee Day school poster contest in the United States and in 2004 was honorary patron of the Greek Schools Essay Contest on refugee issues, in partnership with the Ministry of Education.

In March 2005, she was the guest of honour with General Colin Powell at the USA for UNHCR/Kuwait – America Foundation Benefit Dinner raising $1 million for Iraqi refugee women and children. On that occasion, she announced the opening of the new National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children, and continued her advocacy for the right of unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the US, with meetings on Capitol Hill.

In May 2006, Jolie supported a nationwide event in Sweden dubbed “Operation A Day’s Work”, held every year by the Swedish Student Organisation to fund an educational project in a developing country. This year’s beneficiaries were Congolese refugee children who attend UNHCR’s schools at the Gihembe refugee camp in Rwanda. She thanked participating high school students in an open letter, which was widely published by the Swedish press.

Nearly 80,000 Swedish teenagers from some 250 high schools participated in the campaign, raising more than $750,000, with other campaign projects set for late 2006. WORLD REFUGEE DAY (20 JUNE): Jolie is an active participant in World Refugee Day on 20 June each year, hosting public events and speaking to the media about her concern for refugees. On 16 June 2004, she launched a five-day series of World Refugee Day events in Washington DC, with UNHCR and Secretary of State Colin Powell as well as several other senior government officials. Jolie is lobbying for and sponsoring a project with UNHCR in the United States which will help ensure legal counsel and assistance to unaccompanied minors seeking asylum.

After this she travelled to Barcelona for World Refugee Day events with UNHCR and many prestigious guests in the context of the Barcelona Forum. On the evening of 20 June 2004, she was guest of honour at the Nansen Refugee Award ceremony. On 15 June 2005, Jolie launched multiple World Refugee Day activities in Washington D.C. together with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who provided protection to people fleeing the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. She also met with US Senators on Capitol Hill seeking support for urgent refugee relief and protection operations. For World Refugee Day in 2006, Jolie appeared in a 30-second TV spot and urged the world not to forget refugees. Her message was broadcast around the world in public service time.

She was also the featured guest in a two-hour interview with CNN, which was broadcast on World Refugee Day. She expressed her concern for refugees and talked about her field travels and experiences as UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. BUSINESS LEADERS: In January 2005, Jolie participated in the 2005 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland. She was participated in panel sessions leading discussions about corporate action for addressing the plight of refugees around the world.

She emphasized the important role the private sector can play in empowering refugees, enhancing their skills set and ensuring they are positive change agents for development. In January 2006, she participated in the 2006 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum. She talked about the linkage between human rights and refugee rights, and drew the attention of the participants to forgotten humanitarian emergencies.

AWARDS: In October 2003, Jolie was awarded the first UNCA Citizen of the World award by the United Nations Correspondents Association in New York. The award recognized the value of her work as UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, bringing forgotten refugee crises to the attention of the world media. On October 11 2005, Jolie accepted the 2005 Global Humanitarian Action Award from the United Nations Association of the USA and the Business Council for the United Nations. The award honoured Jolie for fulfilling her work as a Goodwill Ambassador with vigour and valuable insight, and being a voice for millions of refugees and internally displaced people around the world.

DONOR: While Jolie is most valued as a dedicated advocate for refugees, she has also been a generous donor to UNHCR. She has donated to many field operations in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Balkans and the Americas. She is often the first private donor to respond to UNHCR appeals for emergencies and forgotten refugee crises across the globe. She covers all of her expenses when she goes on mission with UNHCR, as well as costs relating to her World Refugee Day activities and other refugee advocacy projects. These contributions now total well over $3 million.

Jolie is an American actress, winner of an Academy Award and three Golden Globe awards. She is the mother of two sons, Maddox Chivan and Pax Thien and two daughters, Zahara Marley and Shiloh Nouvel. 􀂾Please note Ms. Jolie’s correct title: UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador or Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. 􀂾 Detailed information regarding many of Jolie’s activities as UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador can be found on the UNHCR website: http://www.unhcr.org/goodwill UNHCR Geneva April 2007

I remembered Jessica Lange mission in Eastern Congo. She saw the suffering of very young girls some as young as Z who were raped and severely wounded when they didn’t died from it.

I remembered her saying that what she saw in those refuge camps were beyond the unbearable and the worst she ever saw in any other refuge camp she has visited in other countries. She talked about pictures of raped victims that was unthinkable, that the UN kept on registred on files and she was crying when describing the worst mankind can do.