Shiloh’s Scare

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I really hope this was just made up. As a parent myself, I wouldn’t want to go through that horror.

wow

Thats why she never speaks about Shiloh.

i will snatch the publisher ,editor,writer of this mag and put them in mental institution, tht will make them believable. the best thing for them is to join the scientology and then hv their creepy imaginations begins!!!

meamelia

insulting a baby? how old are you?

stupid tabloids

this little sweet baby…

I hope L& S leave Shiloh alone.

meamelia look likes an overly obese version of shiloh! but this woman is crazy or mentally retarded

yeahhh..this kids get published a lot!..that’s y there are people who try to do this things..the just want the money..and possible popularity..

http://www.hellomagazine.com/vote/mostattractivewoman/month/index.html

meamelia

you think Brad and Angelina get money when their kids are in the tabloids?

sorry…for insulting your “GOLD” baby…i happen to love her too..
it’s just a question…don’t be emo k..hahaha!..

even if it was true,how did this rag get the information,police will never tell them,this is all lies

I wouldn’t belive anything coming out of this RAG!!

Shi’s a cutie pie.

Would someone pliz get Harry the rat … too much haters on this thread.

any hating on any baby is disguisting,time to use flag button

What a bunch of bull! Life and style, you don’t exploit children? My @ss! Making up a horrible story like this, is the perfect excuse to exploit this baby. L.and s., what a bunch of lying sickos you are! Wastes of space! Jared, why would you post this crap? Still love ya, but come on! Bbl

hi felinelilly,this tabs have cross the line,this is child exploitation

These people are beyond racist. They have more than one freaking child! God. People are too obsessed with this little girl.

http://www.people.com/people/angelina_jolie/photos/0,,20004347_20135554,00.html

Why Life & Style change color of Shiloh’s sweater?

ur’s right jmo..they’re freaking obsessed
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Barracks grandmother.
http://www.tmz.com/2008/02/06/barack-makes-grandma-proud/#comments

Last time i checked B&A had 4 children not one. Just wondering ….

OMG this is serious!

if this is true I’m sure brad and angie are making the possible and the impossible to protect her!

If this is made up… OMG I want to get out of this planet!! It completely crossed the line!! I mean this is insane!! It totally freaks me out! how can people say these things just to sell their magazines??

I’m speechless… I hope that this is just another fake story…

Jared, i know its your blog, but jeeze u’re getting as annoying as the tabs; Why do u keep posting this sh*t. The woman is somewhere doing her UN work but of course u have to continue with Lies and Style and their B/S.

I can’t believe they would use a child to sell magazines!! shame on them

ROTFLMAOPIMP!!! Aww, fcuk…TPTB at L&S have FINALLY reached rock bottom. That sound you hear is the editor scraping the bottom of the barrel to come up with a cover story this week. Guess I’m gonna have to get out the old pen and paper this week and take a few notes…

I somehow doubt this………..

Jared you have sunk to a new low.

What is this Jared? All the tabloid headlines…Are they paying you?

very creepy. Hard to say if it is true since Life & Style is a tabloid. Sadly there are a lot of really demented, sick people in the world so it could be true

And the bad thing with tabloids is that people will start repeating them as if they are fact. Just looks at the idiots who repeat the story like parrots. The editors should be taken down for this.

Security has been doubled at the Jolie-Pitt household because of tabloids reporters trying to break in Brad’s home.

I’m sure Life & Style /InTouch will feel the wrath of an attorney’s office. Using a child to make up stories…..

This is very disturbing……
Lunatic wants to harm the little child should be hang .
I just hope is not for Polictical reason.

# 6 meamelia @ 02/06/2008 at 10:30 am

Y i think Shiloh isn’t so pretty anymore?..
is she getting fat?

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She’s not as fat as your head. And dudette…why the hell do you think it’s called “baby fat”? Cuz babies get chubby. Duh! All they do is eat, poop and sleep. There’s not exactly a whole lot of calorie-burning activity in a baby’s life, ya know.

I wish Life and Style would stop putting ides into sick peoples’ minds. Oh yes, they are sicker that the people they are giving the ideas. What a world Brad and Angie have to cope with. Sick, Sick tabloids.

# 47 ot info @ 02/06/2008 at 11:07 am

Barracks grandmother.
http://www.tmz.com/2008/02/06/barack-makes-grandma-proud/#comments

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Cute chicken. ROTFLMAO.

Why did Jared post this tab cr@p? I don’t believe the sh$t. Lies and Styless is such a low life.

I thinkg we all should up and leave to go to JJB or another blog. there are too many tabloids stories around and JJ was one that you kinda got real news from. Now, Everything is speculation, guessing, and outright lies. I don’t need that. There is so much legit news out there that these tabloids stories are unacceptable. Using a child on a cover without it’s parents is exploitation. There are laws on the books for that. I think everyone should call up Life & Style and let them know how we feel. I read somewhere that criminals work for that magazine as well as Outta touch. All of you who are always asking for pictures of the children are partly to blame too. The children are not famous it’s their parents. With all due resepect, who cares about the kid’s enough to want to follow their every move? sick, sick, sick…

OT Skip if not Interested: Antonio Banderas dad dies.

http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/02/04/antonio-banderas-father-dies-actors-home-spain/

Protect that baby!!!

Life & Style is really full of lies. Why do they have to change Shiloh’s sweater and the background to make a new article about her? This picture was taken last September 28, 2007 when she and Angelina went to for a toy shopping. So the picture is approximately 5 months old already. She must have grown a lot now and. To those who are saying she’s not pretty anymore…shame on them.

OT Skip If not Interested. Delta Burke checks in psych ward.

http://www.tv19.com/2008/02/designing-woman-in-psych-ward.html

are there some news about angie´s trip?

fans, let’s boycott this thread. it is so sick. Many fans are back to the last thread.

meamelia @ 02/06/2008 at 12:08 pm meamelia @ 02/06/2008 at 11:54 am

why you´re here???????

because i hate tabloids that exploits celeb babies…
i read tabloids..
and i think shi is a victim..
it’s just too late for her..
i’ve seen since birth..and so do u and the others….
so, i would love to comment on Siloh Nouvel..
it’s my view of her..
she’s public properties..
y can’t i say anything bout her?..

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I know that is public properties, but you critized one lil baby.
And you said that she´s a victim, because the haters dont leave her alone, they´re telling very bad things about her.
She´s beautiful, happy, with HER FAMILY.
You´re obcessed with her.

No, I’m not obsessed…I just read what the tabloids fed the public..
I don’t live under a shell..
and i can comment whatever i want..
it’s my view..an it’s not necessary to just say good things..

I see Jennifer Aniston is at it again. Might be the medication from the nose surgery getting to her head. Arrest her already!!!!

FROM E ONLINE:

Dear Ted:
You’re being skewered on the E! message boards, but we have your back. If you take a peek, you’ll see who the culprits are. Just wanted to let you know that “Fullmoon” is a Brangelina fan who also posts under “gapeach.” If there is any way you could call her out, we would consider it a huge favor.
Angela M.
Madison, Wisconsin

Dear Confused:
Why on earth would I do that? Don’t you know ridicule is the finest form of flattery? You see, even these overzealous Brangelina crazies (I think they’re all just displaced Michael Jackson fans, or their offspring, or both) know Angie’s gonna break Brad’s heart in the end. But they’ll just keep on keepin’ on like that’s never gonna happen, God love ‘em.

TED C KNOWS NOTHING

Stupid tabloid. Seriously - from Britney’s kids, to Shiloh, etc - it’s shameful that they’re using little children to sell their sleazy product.

EVERYBODY SHOULD NOT BUY INTOUCH,STAR,LIFE/STYLE,ENQUIRER MAGAZINES. THEY MAKE UP STORIES,NEGATIVE ONES ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE JOLIE-PITTS JUST TO SELL THEIR STUPID MAGAZINES. THE ONLY ONE I BUY IS US MAGAZINE, THEY ALL JUST FAIR AND TRUTHFUL. PLEASE DO NOT BUY THE BAD ONES,THEY DON’T DESERVE IT.FOR THOSE WHO ARE CRITICAL OF THE JOLIE PITT FAMILY PLS. DO NOT POST ANYTHING IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO SAY POSITIVE. STAY OUT OF THIS WEB , THIS ONLY FOR THE FANS OF THE FAMILY, GOT IT?

This -is probably another bit of bullshit just to get the public to buy the magazine. I’m sure the Jolie-Pitts have every angle of security covered for themselves and their precious children.

EVERYBODY SHOULD NOT BUY INTOUCH,STAR,LIFE/STYLE,ENQUIRER MAGAZINES. THEY MAKE UP STORIES,NEGATIVE ONES ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE JOLIE-PITTS JUST TO SELL THEIR STUPID MAGAZINES. THE ONLY ONE I BUY IS US MAGAZINE, THEY ALL JUST FAIR AND TRUTHFUL. PLEASE DO NOT BUY THE BAD ONES,THEY DON’T DESERVE IT.FOR THOSE WHO ARE CRITICAL OF THE JOLIE PITT FAMILY PLS. DO NOT POST ANYTHING IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO SAY POSITIVE. STAY OUT OF THIS WEB , THIS ONLY FOR THE FANS OF THE FAMILY, GOT IT?

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Why do you buy only Usmag ?
I think all of them same trash.

Do we have to believe in everything we read? NO!

So?

Jared is not the one who wrote this story. He just let us know what’s going on with the other magazines. Why do you attack him?

Haters , are just pathetic. Forcing themselves in this web site, even if they are not welcome. Leave the family alone, they are doing good for the needy , God bless them for that. Beautiful Shiloh, that innocent child should be left alone and let her grow like my kids are growing.

agree with jennifer ,not buy this magazine
i love always angelina jolie

This is made up.Don’t believe it.

Adios Just Jared. You have crossed the line for me before… and I came back. But this is too much. For you to post bullcrap covers of Life&Style, Star etc. is an insult to the fans of Brad & Angelina and I’m not gonna be a part of it anymore. Is money the only thing you care about now? Disgusting.

I don’t think clever Jolie-Pitt fan believe the story of a trashloit, but I think just it is not appropriate to put on this thread, I know JJ has been very kind to us and thank him for satisfying us for the prompt news and pictures, I just think that this Shiloh thread is uneccessary. JMHO. Sorry JJ if I yelled at you.

Why do these magazines make up terrible lies about the Jolie-Pitts knowing full well they are good decent people.All this does is bring the haters and losers here to Jareds to post hate.[life&style)is the worst of the worst ,Writing lies about baby Siloh,just to make their payroll.

# 126 Z @ 02/06/2008 at 1:29 pm So don’t we see SHILOH anymore? I love to see all the kids together.
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they´re in LA

the tabloids are ridiculous. Stop putting babies on the cover!

A PERSON HAS TO BE SICK IN THE MIND TO MAKE A THREAT AGAINST AN INNOCENT BABY! DOESN’T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE IF THE CHILD IS FAMOUS OR NOT! A SICK AND TWISTED MIND WILL ONLY MAKE THREATS AGAINST ANY BABY! THE PERSON(S) WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE, SHOULD BE LOCKED UP IN AN ASYLUM FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. HEAVILY MEDICATED AND LOCKED IN ISOLATION! THAT IS PLAIN SICK! TO MAKE THREATS AGAINST BABIES!

WHY SHOULD THEY LET A SICK MIND, DICTATE THEIR LIVES? THAT IS JUST GIVING THE SICKO, TOTAL CONTROL. THEY HAVE THE BEST SECURITY MONEY CAN BUY! AND “TWO” VERY DEVOTED PARENTS. TO ALL THEIR CHILDREN. ANYBODY WHO SAYS DIFFERENT, IS JEALOUS. DON’T DENY IT, IT ONLY MAKES YOU LOOK FOOLISH. DON’T FORGET, ONLY THE JEALOUS FEEL THEY NEED TO PUT DOWN SOMEONE ELSE. IT MAKES THEM FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELVES. BUT, WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT, LOL. DOESN’T CHANGE THE FACT(S.) NO MATTER HOW YOU TWIST ANYTHING THEY DO OR SAY. YOU WEIRDO.

julianne @ 02/06/2008 at 1:00 pm

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ITA. Their safety is far more important for me too.

The cops should go after aniston fans from this thread who had been hating this family

you would think these two idiots would choose a less public lifestyle instead of dealing with constant paps, putting their family in danger and any other bs. neither one of them has to work, they’re got enough money so that even their grandkids will never have to work. i guess the attention and greed for even more money keep them in our face.

I also aggree with some of the other posters here; JARED YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF FOR THIS POSTING. You are stepping into very troublesome waters and whether you believe it or not you are promoting a very dangerous form of ‘journalism’.

Jared - I agree with the regulars. Creating a new thread based on a sleazy tab such as L&S is not cool at all, especially when it involves the kids. Truly disappointed.

Agree with some of the fans. I don’t buy these magazines anymore for a long time. Save me a lot of money. At first I did’nt realized I’m buying trash stories. When I learned, I’m so thankful.

JJ…………….I have but one word for this Post…

……………………………………PHEW!!!!!!!!…………………………

Angelina Jolie, a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, meets a child at a camp on the Iraq – Syria border for Palestinian refugees unable to cross into Syria. UNHCR estimates that 2,000 people are displaced each day in Iraq. © UNHCR/M.Bernard

http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/events/graphic.jpg?tbl=MENUS&id=46e7db842

lila , lilo an idiot lunatic who don’t hv money, power and byuti like the jolliepitt , so she’s here monkeying around with so much boling jealousy. she also hv a major BRAINDA-mage. now change tht monkey name, tht’s all ur good for.did u waxed ur ear? , brushed ur smelly rotten teeth? and washed ur pik-pik?

Angelina Jolie highlights humanitarian crisis during Syria and Iraq visits

DAMASCUS, Syria, August 28 (UNHCR) – UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has visited Iraq and Syria to see first-hand the plight of hundreds of thousands of families uprooted by the conflict in Iraq.

The UN refugee agency estimates more than 4. 2 million Iraqis have left their homes – 2 million to neighbouring states and another 2.2 million displaced inside Iraq.

Yesterday in Damascus, Jolie visited a UNHCR registration centre and spent hours talking to Iraqi refugees in their homes. Today, she crossed into Iraq to visit 1,200 refugees trapped in a makeshift camp at the border, unable to flee Iraq, and later watched scores of Iraqis crossing into Syria at a border checkpoint.

As a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Jolie said she would leave politics to others while focusing on the region’s huge humanitarian needs.

“I have come to Syria and Iraq to help draw attention to this humanitarian crisis and to urge governments to increase their support for UNHCR and its partners,” Jolie said. “My sole purpose in both countries is to highlight the humanitarian plight of those uprooted by the war in Iraq.”

After talking with some of the stranded refugees at Iraq’s Al Waleed camp on Tuesday, Jolie said: “it is absolutely essential that the ongoing debate about Iraq’s future includes plans for addressing the enormous humanitarian consequences these people face.”

While in Iraq, she separated from UNHCR to visit privately with US troops and other Multi-National Forces based in the area.

Jolie arrived in Syria on Monday. In Damascus, she met some of the thousands of Iraqi refugees registering with UNHCR, nearly one-quarter of whom are victims of violence and torture. Tens of thousands are without jobs, and many young people are in danger of losing out on an education and a future. She recognized Syria for its open borders and generosity to Iraqis.

In late July, UNHCR and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched a joint US$129 million education appeal aimed at getting 155,000 young Iraqi refugees throughout the Middle East back into school. The United States announced Tuesday that it will contribute US$30 million to the appeal.

Angelina Jolie visits camp in Chad to assess situation for Darfur refugees

BAHAI, Chad, February 27 (UNHCR) – UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie on Tuesday completed a two-day mission to a refugee camp in eastern Chad which enabled her to assess how the security situation has deteriorated for Sudanese refugees since her last visit to Chad three years ago.

Jolie, who visited both Chad and neighbouring Sudan’s Darfur region with UNHCR in 2004, said she was struck by the sense of hope she encountered at the Oure-Cassoni camp near this town and by the widespread desire for peace-keepers to be deployed in Chad.

She also reflected on the hardship and suffering she had seen at the camp, which is located less than five kilometres from the border with Sudan. “It’s always hard to see decent people, families, living in such difficult conditions,” she said. “What is most upsetting is how long it is taking the international community to answer this crisis,” Jolie added.

The award-winning actress had to travel through a sandstorm on Monday to reach the Oure-Cassoni camp, which with a refugee population of more than 26,000 is the northernmost of 12 UNHCR-run camps in eastern Chad housing more than 230,000 refugees from Sudan’s troubled Darfur region.

She was greeted at one of the camp’s many primary schools by singing children as the desert wind whipped against the plastic sheeting serving as the structure’s roof and walls. The encroaching sands and storms make their hard life even tougher, with many of the tents and mud-brick houses partially or completely buried. Wood for cooking and heat is scarce in the region, and competition for the resource causes friction between the refugee and local populations.

Refugee women are sometimes sexually and physically abused while out collecting the precious scraps of firewood beyond the protection of police provided by the Chadian government to help ensure refugee security.

At the school, Jolie listened to children’s tales of daily life, their concerns and their hopes of one day returning to their homes in Darfur. The room was filled with laughter as she and the children took turns drawing for each other. She later visited mentally ill refugees.

On Tuesday, Jolie visited a man-made reservoir that feeds the camp with water, but which is now almost empty following disappointing rains last year. Its shrinking reserves are a matter of concern for the refugees and UNHCR.

She then sat down with a group of women and discussed their desire for access to income-generating activities as well as their longing to return home. But the women, who were preparing celebrations for International Women’s Day on March 8, said it was still not safe enough across the border and many of the refugees she spoke to supported calls for a peace-keeping force in Chad.

In a report last week to the United Nations Security Council, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon proposed sending a multi-dimensional peace-keeping mission to Chad to protect civilians and deter cross-border attacks.

The refugees Jolie talked to also drew comfort from recent radio reports saying that the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) had told the Security Council it had credible evidence of grave crimes against humanity committed in Darfur.

“Today, many refugees seemed to have a new sense of hope, and they want to see those guilty brought to trial . . . In order to feel safe enough to return home, these people said they would need to know that the men who attacked them had been stripped of their weapons,” Jolie said. “This is a very important day for international justice. The decisions of the ICC could make a big difference in the lives of these women and their children.”

Jolie had high praise for the UNHCR staff and NGO workers that she met in the camp. “Years into this situation, now finding themselves coming under attack, humanitarian workers’ spirits are unbroken,” she said.

There are more than 230,000 refugees from Sudan in eastern Chad, while some 46,000 refugees from the Central African Republic have found shelter in southern Chad. In addition to these refugees, close to 120,000 Chadians are displaced in the eastern region of their own country.

By Matthew Conway
In Bahai, Chad

http://www.unhcr.org/news/NEWS/45e4603e2.html

Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie applauds courage of refugees in India

NEW DELHI, India, November 6 (UNHCR) – On a weekend visit to refugees, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie met Afghan and Burmese women who told her how they fled persecution in their homelands and found safety in India.

Relaxed and informal, dressed in jeans and a UNHCR tee shirt, Jolie also sat down on the floor to play with refugee children, commiserated with a hard-working single mother and chatted with teenagers about the joys and challenges of learning a foreign language.

“I am grateful to the refugee families who spent time with me and shared their stories,” Jolie said. “They are remarkable, courageous people.”

On Saturday, the actress visited the UNHCR Women’s Protection Clinic in west Delhi, a place where refugee women from Myanmar can come and air their problems in a safe environment.

Interviews at the clinic also enable UNHCR to better help the women – by getting them medical care, or arranging education for their children, for example. Longer term, many of the women are scheduled to be resettled in countries like Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway and the United States. Many of the refugees are from the Chin minority, Christians in officially-Buddhist Myanmar.

Writing notes in a thick notebook, Jolie listened attentively as Burmese refugee women told her that they cannot return to their country as long as the military regime remains in power. While she talked to the refugees, her five-year-old son Maddox played on the floor with Burmese children, overcoming any language barrier with an enthusiastic contest of spinning tops.

“It’s very upsetting to hear about the persecution the refugees have endured,” Jolie said. After a conversation with two Burmese women, one shyly told Jolie: “You look like an actress.” Added the second one: “Are you a film star?”

“That’s why I am in India, making a film,” Jolie replied, “but I came up to Delhi just to visit with you. I am honoured to be able to meet you. You are very strong women. You are amazing.”

The Afghan and Burmese women she met were among the 11,500 refugees in the Indian capital who are directly under the care of the UN refugee agency.

In the crowded narrow streets near the centre, Jolie slipped off her flip-flops and settled down on the wooden bed in a one-room apartment her Burmese refugee host shares with her three children. The woman, whose husband was arrested in Burma, fled to India alone with her young children. She cannot work here, she said, because she has her hands full taking care of the children, two of whom were at her side as she talked.

“That’s the hardest work,” said Jolie, who has three children of her own. “It must be very difficult for you to raise three small children in a foreign country.”

Jolie also visited Khalsa Diwan Welfare Society, an organisation run by and for Sikh Afghan refugees in west Delhi, where she dropped in on tailoring, music and English classes. Many of the Afghan Sikhs, who were a persecuted minority in their own country, have been in India for nearly three decades; most of the young refugees Jolie met were born in India and have never seen Afghanistan.

Chatting with a 15-year-old boy who said he loves computers, Jolie joked: “I am terrible with computers.” In an English class, Jolie, who said she has a special interest in Afghan refugees and would like to visit the country one day when it is peaceful, asked the students to teach her a few words in their mother tongue and praised their command of three languages.

Later she said it was tragic these Afghan refugees – who number 9,500 in New Delhi – had languished in exile for so many years. “We often focus on refugee emergencies, but we forget that there are millions of refugees around the world who spend years, even decades, outside their countries,” she said. “The international community really must work harder to find solutions for these forgotten urban refugees.”

On Sunday, Jolie met Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma, and also prominent members of Indian civil society, including academics and lawyers. She thanked both the people and government of India for “their longstanding hospitality to refugees” and for an “open-door policy” to refugees displaced by recent fighting in Sri Lanka.

In addition to the 11,500 refugees cared for by the UN refugee agency directly, India is also home to about 110,000 Tibetan refugees and more than 100,000 refugees from Sri Lanka who are looked after by the Indian government. Since violence flared on the island state in April this year, more than 18,000 Sri Lankans have sought refuge in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state.

http://www.unhcr.org/news/NEWS/454f05d62.html

Goodwill Ambassador Jolie sees urgency of more aid in Pakistan

JABEL SHAROON, Pakistan, Nov 28 (UNHCR) – UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie peered through the helicopter window at mile after mile of destroyed houses, and at the meagre possessions of poor Pakistanis buried in rubble strewn down the mountain sides.

“You fly over the area and you can’t believe it,” said Jolie during her three-day visit for the UN refugee agency that ended on Saturday. “No one sitting at home has any idea what this really looks like. It is unbelievable. For 20 minutes flying we just saw one house after another broken. There is nothing standing.”

The Goodwill Ambassador came to see first-hand the impact of the October 8 earthquake that killed at least 73,000 people and left tens of thousands homeless in one of the poorest areas of a generally impoverished country. From high-altitude villages where assistance is just arriving, to the almost totally destroyed city of Balakot, to the hospital in Islamabad where thousands of injured were treated, she heard from survivors about the horror of the earthquake and their fears for the future.

UNHCR, mandated to protect refugees, is not normally involved in natural disasters. But for the second time in a year – this earthquake and the tsunami that devastated the coasts of south and south-east Asia last December – the UN refugee agency found itself at the centre of an overwhelming humanitarian crisis.

As in Sri Lanka, where UNHCR has long been active, the agency has been in Pakistan for three decades assisting Afghan refugees. Within hours of the earthquake, UNHCR had opened its warehouses and began distributing tents, blankets and plastic sheeting to the victims of the earthquake.

“It is an obligation to be here and to help the people of Pakistan, and to stand by them at this time after having seen them do so much for the Afghan people over the years,” Jolie told reporters at a joint news conference with UNHCR High Commissioner António Guterres on Friday in Islamabad. Guterres was in the middle of a major tour of the region, and had also visited the devastated earthquake zone the previous day.

“I’m sorry it’s something we have to do. I’m sorry we’re in this situation, but I am so glad to be here for them,” said Jolie, whose two previous visits to Pakistan had been to meet Afghan refugees.

The UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador learned first-hand that this earthquake presents extreme challenges requiring sustained assistance – the initial disaster could be followed by a second as the harsh winter begins to grip the Himalayan slopes where people lost their houses.

A visit to Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-administered Kashmir where thousands died, had to be cut short on Saturday as clouds began to obscure the surrounding peaks and prevent flights. It was likely to bring snow to the area Jolie had visited earlier in the day, a remote community at Jabel Sharoon in the Neelum Valley, located at an altitude of around 2,000 metres.

Jolie and fellow actor Brad Pitt, jointly making the UNHCR-facilitated tour, had flown on board Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) helicopters that were carrying food into the isolated mountain-side strewn with the wreckage of wooden houses. AKF, an international aid and development organization which has been present in this part of Pakistan for many years, has worked closely with UNHCR in carrying aid into the mountains and evacuating thousands of injured.

“There are many people who are in the highest altitudes who for many reasons do not want to move – are afraid of losing their property and are used to that life – and if they don’t leave they will try to rebuild soon,” Jolie said. “I don’t know if that is possible … some of the people are trying to rebuild now, but I do think it is an emergency effort just to survive.”

As she talked with survivors at Jabel Sharoon, a frigid wind was already sweeping off mountains dusted with snow. Those who have had to give up the struggle to stay through the winter are making their way down the slopes to relief camps. Some are moving into spontaneous clusters of tents, a potential health problem, but others are moving to large, well-equipped camps set up by the Pakistan authorities with UNHCR assistance.

UNHCR, which has decades of accumulated expertise caring for refugee influxes around the world, has been tasked by the UN with providing guidance on building and maintaining these temporary camps for survivors.

Jolie visited the Ghari Habibullah camp, which was erected by the Pakistani army, and was relieved to hear from residents that, while still traumatized, they now felt secure as the winter approaches. The camp commander reported a steady, continuing flow of survivors from the high valleys.

She also visited the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad, which was the key medical facility in the weeks following the earthquake, and talked with children – many of them amputees – who require continuing assistance. At one point thousands of patients had overflowed the wards and were being treated in the corridors.

After hearing that the hospital was trying to raise funds to buy 40 specialized beds for patients who are paralyzed from spinal injuries suffered in the earthquake, Brad Pitt immediately offered to provide all of them – a donation worth more than US$100,000.

Jolie emphasized that the needs of survivors, especially with winter starting to close in on the Himalayas, are immense and urgent – international assistance has to continue and pledges made by governments have to be honoured.

“This is not just one disaster that has happened,” she said. “There is another disaster that could happen very soon if there is not enough coordination and money on the ground as soon as possible.”

By Jack Redden
In Islamabad

thank you mercy

UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Jolie urges aid for Afghans in Afghanistan and Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, May 9 (UNHCR) – UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie thanked Pakistan for hosting millions of Afghans over the past quarter century and appealed for international assistance to help both Afghanistan and Pakistan attack poverty through economic development.

Jolie, after three days of visiting Afghans in conditions from refugee camps to brick kilns where entire families labour, told a news conference Saturday that she had been brought to tears by what she had seen. But she was encouraged that in talks with UNHCR staff and the top leaders of Pakistan, she found agreement on what had to be done.

“Everybody feels that forced repatriation is not the aim and not something that should be done,” the American actress said. “Another thing is that the burden on Pakistan and the Pakistani people, which has lasted 25 years, is very large and they have not been given the support that they should have been given.”

While Jolie helped UNHCR’s voluntary repatriation programme, personally seeing off a convoy that pushed the number of Afghans returning this year above the 50,000 mark, she said there was a continuing need both to help those who still felt unable to go home and for more urgent development in Afghanistan.

“It’s up to the international community to help to fund and to help shoulder the burden of the problem in this part of the world – to help the people, help the families, to continue the programmes and encourage that there be more and faster development,” said Jolie, who had last been in Pakistan when Afghans were fleeing war in their country.

Soon after her 2001 visit, the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan were ousted and the flow reversed, with more than 2.3 million Afghans returning from Pakistan since 2002.

Jolie started her second visit to Pakistan last Wednesday by watching Afghans departing with UNHCR assistance from Islamabad. The following day, in the town of Attock near the Indus River, she spoke with many of the 500 Afghans who were returning that day. After talking to children who made their living collecting rubbish – a common occupation for Afghans in Pakistan – she scaled the side of a truck to speak with the women and children on the top.

But she also saw the complexity of the problem, wandering later on Thursday through the mud alleys of Katcha Gahri camp on the outskirts of Peshawar. Sitting with a group of children against the wall of a mud house, she heard many say they did not expect to return soon to a country that still lacks basic services.

The UN refugee agency and the government of Pakistan have started discussions on how to manage the Afghans who are likely to remain in the country after the current Tripartite Agreement between UNHCR and the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan ends in March next year. The agreement governs voluntary repatriation.

A census earlier this year – the first ever conducted of Afghans in Pakistan – counted just over three million Afghans who have arrived since the start of the chaos in Afghanistan in 1979. Some could be refugees but many fall in other categories such as migrant or even seasonal labour.

Jolie saw first hand the need for a shift toward development to address poverty. During an emotional visit with Afghan families labouring in the brick kilns on the outskirts of Islamabad, she watched children as young as six or seven years old pounding the mud into moulds. They earn about one U.S. cent for three bricks.

“It was really one of the worst things that I have ever seen – it is very, very difficult as a mother to see children having to work,” she said, admitting to reporters she had cried at the sight. “But I do understand that it’s very hard for these parents who need their children to work because they still don’t have the ability to eat unless the entire family is working.”

UNHCR is discussing a new international emphasis on rehabilitating degraded areas of Pakistan from where Afghans have gone home and also assisting both Afghans and Pakistanis in areas where they productively co-exist. This would be simultaneous with efforts to increase Afghanistan’s ability to absorb the millions of its citizens still outside its borders in Pakistan and Iran.

Jolie said the need for increased development aid to Afghanistan – a goal of UNHCR – had surfaced repeatedly in official talks during an intense three-day schedule that included meetings with Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.

Jolie said repatriation, the preferred goal of both UNHCR and Pakistan, would be a slow process. Despite that, UNHCR’s Goodwill Ambassador said she had found a deep desire among Afghans to go home even with the economic hardships they could face.

“I met a woman who was about to get on the truck with a small baby and didn’t have a husband. She was crying but she wanted to go home to Afghanistan,” Jolie said. “She said: ‘I have no water, I have no school, I have no house, I have nothing. I am scared but I am going and because I have God, I hope I will be okay.”

Jolie said the woman was probably arriving at her destination in Afghanistan on Saturday as she was ending her visit to Pakistan: “I too hope she will be okay because I don’t know how she is going to survive – how she will earn a living, find food and find health care.”

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UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie (centre) celebrating Christmas Eve with UNHCR staff in Beirut. © UNHCR Beirut

Who, in right mind, will believe that junk magazine?

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UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie with internally displaced children in Margasa village, West Darfur. Before clothes and food, they asked for security, said Jolie. © UNHCR/R.Ek

Urgent funds needed for Darfur refugees, stresses Jolie

IRIBA, Chad, June 7 (UNHCR) – UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has stressed the urgency of funding more assistance for Sudanese refugees in Chad after seeing first-hand the dire situation in the border area.

Over the weekend, the Goodwill Ambassador visited eastern Chad’s border sites and camps for refugees who had fled fighting in western Sudan’s Darfur region. She heard stories of militia attacks and saw aid agencies rushing to provide the refugees with emergency assistance.

“UNHCR and its partners in eastern Chad are working closely together to assist the Sudanese refugees in Chad as best as they can, an uphill battle that they seem to be winning,” said Jolie after a two-day mission that ended on Saturday. “But they are in a race against time before the rainy season comes.”

“When the rains start to fall, the weak temporary structures in the makeshift shelters will be in danger of collapsing. There will be illnesses, especially among children, due to the sanitary situation breaking down,” Jolie warned, adding that the rains will also render the roads impassable, making emergency transport, medical and food shipment close to impossible.

Travelling to the Chadian border town of Tine on Friday, Jolie spoke to some Sudanese refugees in makeshift shelters. “I fled the village with my children and walked several days before arriving here in Tine,” said one woman, recalling how the Janjaweed militia stormed into her village four months ago, shooting at people, looting and burning all the houses.

In Tine, a major entry point for Darfur’s refugees in recent months, the Goodwill Ambassador helped refugees, mainly women and children, to board UNHCR trucks. She distributed high-protein biscuits for their four-hour journey to the camp of Mille, where some 200 refugees were to be relocated that day. UNHCR organises convoys every other day from Tine to Mille camp.

Mille is one of eight inland camps where more than 81,000 refugees have been relocated to protect them against cross-border incursions by the Sudanese militia, and where they can receive regular assistance.

At Iridimi camp, two hours away from the border, Jolie joined a nutrition team from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention as they weighed and measured refugee children to check for possible malnourishment.

She then travelled to the nearby village of Iridimi, where a team from the Norwegian Church Aid briefed her on their water project and showed her the latest borehole they had dug to provide water for the refugees. The water is stored in bladders and trucked from the village to the camp. Currently, refugees in Iridimi get only 6 to 7 litres of water a day, far from the 15 litres they need per day. The new borehole should allow them to get closer to this minimum requirement.

The shortage of water in this arid region has posed a huge challenge in UNHCR and its partners’ search for camp sites to relocate the refugees.

On Saturday, Jolie visited a nutrition centre run by Médecins Sans Frontières-Belgique in the hospital at Iriba. Over 120 malnourished refugee children are being treated there. The Goodwill Ambassador also took part in a food distribution for 700 refugees who will be transported to Mille camp in the coming days.

Her mission ended with a visit to Touloum camp, 17 km from Iriba, which now hosts 17,000 refugees. Concluding the trip, she emphasised the urgent need for UNHCR and its partners to get additional funding in order to continue assisting the Sudanese refugees in Chad.

In all, there are an estimated 158,000 Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad.

Story date: 7 June 2004
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Goodwill Ambassadors visit refugees in Egypt; discuss more joint initiatives

CAIRO, Dec 29 (UNHCR) – UNHCR Goodwill Ambassadors Angelina Jolie and Adel Imam are discussing plans to work together to raise awareness of refugees in the Middle East after visiting Sudanese refugees near the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

During their weekend visit to Kilo Arbaa We Nus on the outskirts of Cairo, the Goodwill Ambassadors distributed winter clothes, blankets and toys to Sudanese refugees living there. Jolie also donated $20,000 to a community health project in the area.

“In keeping with its long-standing tradition of hospitality, Egypt has always kept the doors open to refugees,” said Jolie, commending the government for hosting 25,000 refugees and asylum seekers registered with UNHCR, as well as some 70,000 Palestinian refugees under the government’s protection.

She added, “Refugees are not just beneficiaries of assistance but, if given the chance, they are also contributing members of the host society. This, I have seen in many different refugee situations.”

Imam, known for his stout defence of refugees’ rights, stressed, “We must move towards permanent solutions for refugees in the region, and the increased engagement of civil society in our countries is fundamental to that. During our meeting, Angelina and I talked about the possibility of similar joint initiatives in the region, for instance, a visit to refugee camps in Yemen. She agreed it would be a useful awareness-raising measure, so we hope to be able to do that in the near future.”

At the end of the visit, UNHCR Regional Representative Ana Liria-Franch praised the insight of the Goodwill Ambassadors: “I am deeply moved by these two extraordinary people. They have demonstrated in their visit today to Kilo Arbaa We Nus precisely the type of passion, dedication and commitment required to achieve palpable improvements to the lives of refugees and their often impoverished hosts. It is profoundly reassuring to have artists of their calibre bringing attention to refugees’ search for solutions.”

Story date: 29 December 2003
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This is inexcusable.

They are intentionally and repeatedly putting this child’s life in danger by implanting dangerous ideas on people’s minds. This is a crime, no matter what angle you look at it from.

UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Anglina Jolie visiting refugee children at a healthcare centre in Ruwaished camp, Jordan. © UNHCR/B.Bronee

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Keep options open for displaced Chechens, urges UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador

MOSCOW, August 25 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency’s Goodwill Ambassador, Angelina Jolie, has concluded her four-day mission to the Russian Federation by calling for all options to be kept open for displaced Chechens who do not wish to return to Chechnya at this stage.

“I frankly cannot see how the situation in Chechnya has changed to the extent that it now is safe for all IDPs to return,” said Jolie at a press conference in Moscow Sunday. “I am grateful for the hospitality that the Republic of Ingushetia has extended to internally displaced persons, and I warmly welcome the assurances by President [Murat] Zyazikov that no displaced persons will be returned to Chechnya against their will.”

The Goodwill Ambassador travelled to North Caucasus from last Thursday to Sunday to learn about all aspects of UNHCR’s operations in the region.

In Ingushetia, a republic bordering Chechnya, she visited Bella and Sputnik camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs), meeting with displaced Chechens and visiting them in their tent homes. She paid particular attention to their worries about the security situation in Chechnya and their fears that they would have to go back there without being given an alternative option of continued accommodation in Ingushetia.

There are some 80,000 IDPs from Chechnya in Ingushetia. About 12,000 of them have been living in tented camps for the last four years.

On August 15, UNHCR reported that local authorities in Ingushetia were putting pressure on some Chechen IDPs to return to Chechnya. At the same time, the refugee agency expressed concern about the lack of alternative housing for those IDPs who do not wish to return to Chechnya at this time. In a statement issued at its Geneva headquarters, UNHCR stressed that returns to Chechnya can only be considered voluntary if the displaced persons are fully informed about conditions for return and if they have a genuine alternative available to allow them to remain in Ingushetia.

In North Ossetia, a republic bordering Georgia, Jolie visited the Gizel collective centre in Vladikavkaz, as well as a housing project for refugees in Komsomolskoe. She congratulated Prime Minister Mikhail Shatalov for the good co-operation between the North Ossetian authorities and UNHCR in the efforts to create durable solutions for some 30,000 refugees from Georgia in the republic. She also expressed her appreciation for what the North Ossetian government has done and is doing to help refugees integrate and start new lives.

UNHCR has launched a three-year integration programme to improve the situation of 7,000 refugees in North Ossetia who are living in appalling living conditions in 71 collective centres. Over the last two years, 140 one-family houses were constructed and another 70 will be completed this year. The housing project is being complemented by legal, medical and psychological counselling as well as community-oriented activities implemented by local non-governmental organisations.

In Moscow, Jolie met several families of asylum seekers. She also paid a visit to the Morozov children’s hospital and donated $20,000 to the hospital.

During her visit to the Russian Federation, the UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador met with Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Yuri Fedotov, President of the Republic of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov, and Prime Minister of the Republic of North Ossetia Mikhail Shatalov.

On August 22, President Zyazikov of Ingushetia awarded Jolie with the highest order of the republic, the Order for Merits, for her outstanding services to the cause of humanity, specifically in aiding refugees and displaced persons.

The Goodwill Ambassador’s concerns however, did not stop at people uprooted by war and persecution. While on mission, she expressed “outrage and shock” at last week’s bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad.

“I am joining all UN staff in mourning and extending my deeply felt sympathies to the families and colleagues of the victims,” she said.

“Such senseless attacks, directed against those who are dedicating their lives to the service of people in need, are unfortunately not a new phenomenon,” she added, noting that in the region of Northern Caucasus alone, 117 attacks against aid workers took place between 1995 and 2002, killing 11 people.

She made a personal plea for the release of Arjan Erkel, the Head of Mission of Médecins Sans Frontières, who was kidnapped a year ago in Daghestan and has not been heard from since.

“I urge the people who are holding him to let him go immediately and return him unharmed to his family and friends,” said Jolie. “I also appeal to all those with influence in the Russian Federation and the international community to do everything they possibly can to secure his release.”

This was Jolie’s first visit to the Russian Federation in her capacity as UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. She has previously visited the agency’s operations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Balkans.

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sugar or spice @ 02/06/2008 at 3:11 pm The writers and editors of Life & Style are a bunch of old dirty perverts with their Shiloh obsession image. Turns my stomach. I wouldn’t be surprised if this story was true… in the sense that THEY are the ones that are STALKING Shiloh and are a danger to her well-being. That’s how they have ‘insider’ information because they are writing an expose based on their own personal experiences. Bunch of crazy creeps.

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it´s so true.
Plus, they forgot that she´s the only one, she had 3 adorable brothers.
It´s so ridiculous.
Fortunally, Brad and Angie dont feel differently about her children.
They´re all a beautiful family!!!!

Goodwill Ambassador Jolie releases journals on Kosovo, Sri Lanka

GENEVA, Oct 7 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency’s Goodwill Ambassador, Angelina Jolie, today released two journals offering rare insight into her recent experiences with displaced people in Kosovo and Sri Lanka.

The journals, which are available on the UNHCR website, capture the hope and despair of the refugees, returnees and displaced people Jolie met while on mission to these post-conflict societies.

In Kosovo from December 27-30 last year, the Goodwill Ambassador visited return sites and met a team of women de-miners in the capital, Pristina. She also travelled to various enclaves in the volatile Mitrovica region, where she met Croatian refugees, minorities and mixed communities.

“It’s a sad place,” she notes. “Hard to see how it can ever return to normal. No real joy, but there is the ability to survive. To move on, to try to rebuild. To try to make neighbours of old enemies.”

Despite the bleakness, Jolie observes that hope springs in unexpected places. Describing the scene when a UNHCR worker turns up with flowers one day, she writes, “This leads to a long discussion as most people in the room haven’t seen flowers for a very long time. ‘Where did you get them? Were they flown in?’ ‘No, there is a small glass house behind a building and they are starting to grow them there.’… The conversation goes on for a while, and I realise I have never taken so much notice of a few flowers. What it means for things to be growing. How flowers can bloom in a frozen, bombed out country. And how much that can mean?”

In Sri Lanka, which she visited from April 14-15 this year, she encountered similar survival instincts.

Life is hard for Sri Lankans after 20 years of civil war. At the home of a returnee family in the north, Jolie reports, “The wife says simply, ‘We are finding it very hard to live. Sometimes we think maybe we starve – maybe we will set fire to ourselves. Maybe it will be better somewhere else.’ The kids tell us, ‘No, we have to stay strong. It will get better, but I don’t know when.’”

But the will to survive is strong. At another house, “the grandfather points to a large pile of rubble and says, ‘My brother’s house. He has not seen it yet.’ He jokes, ‘Much work to do.’ There is nothing to do but cry and start all over,” writes Jolie.

Such personal insight and day-to-day accounts are not new to the Goodwill Ambassador, who keeps a journal on all her missions to the field. Many of those journals can now be found in a soon-to-be-published book, “Notes from My Travels” (Simon and Schuster).

Jolie, an Oscar-winning actress, has been active with the UN refugee agency for the past two and a half years and was appointed UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in August 2001. To raise awareness and support for refugees, she has travelled with the agency to Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Balkans and the North Caucasus. She has also contributed generously to UNHCR programmes.

Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie ends Ecuador mission

QUITO, Ecuador, June 10 (UNHCR) – UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie ended her mission to Ecuador today after spending four days visiting Colombian refugees and taking a closer look at the Western Hemisphere’s most severe humanitarian crisis.

“I’m just now starting to understand this very complex situation,” said Jolie, who travelled to Ecuador from June 6-10. “People’s lives are truly in danger – not just in the sense that you feel your town is unsafe – their lives are actually being threatened and their houses are being burnt down.”

Caught in a 40-year internal conflict that has left hundreds of thousands dead and displaced close to 2 million people, the violence in Colombia is raising regional concerns. Thousands have fled to neighbouring Venezuela, Panama and Ecuador, and many thousands more have sought asylum in Costa Rica, North America and Europe.

In Ecuador alone, an estimated 7,000 Colombian refugees and asylum seekers have come seeking protection, with about 300 new arrivals every month.

In the border town of Ibarra, one of the largest refugee reception centres in Ecuador, Jolie met families who had fled from guerrilla and paramilitary violence. Travelling with UNHCR Regional Representative Maria Virginia Trimarco, she also visited a UNHCR-funded carpentry workshop run by refugees and a temporary shelter.

Already familiar with massive refugee operations in Asia and Africa, this was Jolie’s first experience in the Andean region. “What was really shocking was that every individual person you meet will tell you that their immediate family was [affected],” she said. “Somebody’s child was killed, somebody’s husband. Someone was beaten.”

After spending the night with UNHCR staff in Ibarra, Jolie visited a community of refugees in Cochasqui, located at the foot of the some of the country’s most important pre-Inca pyramids.

The following day she travelled with a UNHCR delegation to the remote jungle town of Lago Agrio, Sucumbios. One of the main centres of oil production, Lago Agrio is just a few kilometres from Colombia’s hotly-disputed Putumayo province – one of the world’s biggest coca-growing regions.

As a direct result of the armed conflict, the Ecuadorian government estimates some 10,000 to 12,000 Colombians came through Lago Agrio in 2001. Hundreds have stayed there under UNHCR protection. At the country’s largest shelter, Jolie met dozens of women who are growing their own vegetables to generate extra income. She also presented gifts to the children at the shelter while they showered her with laughter, flowers and a poem.

With a population of 12.5 million, Ecuador is the smallest country in the Andes and has generally been immune to Colombia’s rebel violence. Jolie said she was impressed and thankful that the country was so open to the plight of its neighbours. According to the government, there are some 225,000 Colombians living in the country.

“The majority of the people of concern to UNHCR are still inside [Colombia],” Jolie said. “There are hundreds of thousands of people in trouble, but because we can’t see them crossing [the border], maybe that’s why the world isn’t talking about it so much.”

An Oscar-winning actress who has starred in such movies as Girl, Interrupted, Pushing Tin and Tomb Raider, Jolie has been active with UNHCR for close to two years and has been a Goodwill Ambassador since August 2001. She has met with refugees in Sierra Leone, Namibia, Tanzania, Cambodia, Thailand and Pakistan, and contributed generously to UNHCR programmes.

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Angelina Jolie spreads goodwill in Namibia

WINDHOEK, Namibia (UNHCR) – Goodwill is in the air at Namibia’s Osire refugee camp. Between late March and mid April this year, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie visited and donated food, tents and sports equipment to the nearly 24,000 refugees there.

On March 23, Jolie joined the High Commissioner’s Representative in Namibia, Hesdy Rathling, at Osire camp while working on her new movie, “Beyond Borders,” in the country.

Osire camp, established in 1998, is home to mostly Angolan refugees. There, the Goodwill Ambassador met new arrivals, family groups, leaders of the women’s refugee organisation and nurses who briefed her on the running of the camp clinic.

After hearing about the enthusiastic sports teams at the camp, Jolie brought hundreds of volleyballs, basketballs, footballs and nets to be distributed to the refugees. This was in line with the discussion she held with High Commissioner Ruud Lubbers on the value of sports activities as a means of maintaining health and morale (Olympic Aid Roundtable, February 9, Salt Lake City).

Returning from her day with the refugees at Osire camp, Jolie said, “These people have amazing spirit and determination. I want to come back and spend more time with them.”

A private moment with some young friends. © UNHCR/J-B.Mollard

On April 13, Jolie and her production team donated 270 tents and several hundred items of bedding and mattresses to Osire camp. They also contributed 13.5 tons of food supplies including corn meal, wheat, sugar, salt and beans.

In addition, the Goodwill Ambassador made a generous personal contribution to UNHCR for projects benefitting refugees in Osire camp. These included education materials and support for the Women’s Centre. She told Rathling she will follow closely events which may allow a safe and peaceful return home for the Angolan refugees she now considers her friends.

Before leaving Namibia, Jolie also worked with the UNHCR video team to complete her narration of an updated version of “We Were There,” a 27-minute documentary offering a historical perspective of UNHCR’s work over the past 50 years.

She appears in the documentary alongside High Commissioner Lubbers, Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Olara Otunnu, Nobel Peace Prize winners Desmond Tutu and Rigoberta Menchu, as well as several former High Commissioners.

The documentary will be launched for global TV broadcast on World Refugee Day on June 20.

Jolie with Hesdy Rathling (left), the High Commissioner’s Representative in Namibia. © F.Duhamel

Story date: 1 May 2002
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Angelina Jolie responds to UNHCR emergency appeal

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GENEVA – UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie today became the first individual donor to respond to the refugee agency’s emergency appeal for more than $250 million to meet the enormous humanitarian needs in and around Afghanistan.

The American actress told UNHCR that she will contribute $1 million to help Afghan refugees in neighbouring asylum states such as Pakistan and Iran, which already host more than 3.5 million refugees between them. During the past year, Ms. Jolie has also contributed to UNHCR programmes for refugees in Africa and Asia.

Ms. Jolie visited Pakistan in August to meet refugees and get a first-hand look at UNHCR’s work and programmes on behalf of the 2 million Afghans already seeking refuge there. Having seen the dire plight of these refugees, she feels a particular concern for their situation in the looming humanitarian emergency now confronting the region.

High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers thanked Ms. Jolie for her support: “This significant contribution from a concerned young American reinforces my belief that, despite the trauma of recent events in her country, a strong sense of humanitarian responsibility toward innocent civilians suffering in far-off places continues to animate the spirit of caring individuals everywhere,” Mr. Lubbers said.

“The generosity of our Goodwill Ambassador, Angelina Jolie, has encouraged all of us in the midst of an immense and complex emergency operation. We hope that others will follow her example and help us continue to protect the lives of the thousands of families fleeing their homes in Afghanistan,” concluded the High Commissioner.

Ms. Jolie’s Journal about her August visit to Pakistan will soon be published on the USA for UNHCR website (www.usaforunhcr.org).

Facing a humanitarian crisis of perhaps unprecedented magnitude, UNHCR’s $268 million emergency appeal covers the needs for six months of a possible influx of up to 1 million refugees into Pakistan; 400,000 into Iran; 50,000 into Tajikistan; and 50,000 into Turkmenistan. The agency is also doing additional contingency planning to supply aid to 500,000 people inside Afghanistan, if the necessity arises.

The contingency plan involves a massive relief effort which includes the construction and maintenance of refugee camps and the delivery of more than 80,000 tents, hundreds of thousands of health and hygiene kits and a huge amount of other relief items. Much of it would have to be airlifted to Pakistan and Iran. UNHCR said it could deploy up to 700 international and local staff to deal with the looming crisis, in addition to more than 500 staff already working in countries neighbouring Afghanistan.

UNHCR, which has won two Nobel Peace Prizes over the past 50 years, cares for some 22 million refugees and other uprooted people in more than 100 countries.

Story date: 27 September 2001
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JL: I am sure you met many influential people and heard many amazing stories. Are there any of these experiences that you would like to share?

AJ: There are so many. Really it’s just person after person in every different country that has a life that I can’t even imagine and has gone through horror that I can’t even imagine. And yet, in every country, every family was more generous than I have met in other countries with their time or whatever they had. Trying to find food or tea or something and give you a smile, and [they] are so grateful for what they had left - an unbroken spirit. And that was remarkable for me that that was not specific to one place or one person. That continues to be the majority of these people out there. For whatever reason, I don’t know why, but they’ve learnt something in their suffering and struggle that we have lost touch with.

JL: What do you feel being an Ambassador for UNHCR has done for the organisations?

AJ: I hope it has brought more awareness. That’s all I can hope for. I know what it’s done for me, but I hope it has brought more awareness. I feel it has because people tend to ask me questions, and I have received a lot of letters from young people talking about the things they are doing to make a difference. And that’s been a very nice thing because I didn’t get letters like that before. The most important thing, or the thing I think I accomplished most was going to these places and sitting down with the families for about an hour, and I think… what matters most of all is that you go out of your way to sit down with people and listen to their stories and talk with them and show them somebody cares and is listening.

JL: Do you have any plans for further involvement with other humanitarian programs, or more specifically landmine organisations?

AJ: Yes, with landmines, well the film I just finished deals with a lot of things but it also deals with landmines, which has been great, a very interesting thing to have the whole crew listening about, the effects of landmines. But yes, I certainly will. We were just in Namibia, and I am more aware of that area. That area is… changing and I don’t know if we will understand more about the landmine situation there. And in Afghanistan, I’m sure with UNHCR moving back in there will be a lot they will be dealing with, and they will be dealing with working hand in hand with deminers. And in Cambodia, I have… funded some schools and I plan to move to Cambodia, and have a house there and a place to live. So all of that has to be demined. The schools have already been demined. The land will have to be demined. There’s also organisations too, like the Campaign to Ban Landmines. I’ve met with Jody Williams, and spent some time with her, we’ve had an evening at the house to raise awareness. There’s a lot to do. Hopefully it will stop all the manufacturing and everybody will sign off, because that’s what has to happen before anything.

JL: Do you have any future plans with UNHCR?

AJ: I will be in Washington for Refugee Week, and then it looks like I’m off to South America.

Was is signed “Sincerely Jennifer”?

Was is signed “Sincerely Jennifer”?

What kind of sick f*ck threatens a baby? What a f**cking loser.

Jared!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don’t you have something to post? If you think this story is creepy why you post it? People will start to hate your website if you keep doing this!

Hiya Carolina ((((waving))))

Is this story not insane??

mercy we get it! stop posting the same post over and over again. if we want to read that, it can be found elsewhere online.

“you would think these two idiots would choose a less public lifestyle instead of dealing with constant paps, putting their family in danger and any other bs. neither one of them has to work, they’re got enough money so that even their grandkids will never have to work. i guess the attention and greed for even more money keep them in our face.”

The only people Shiloh needs to be protected against are the tabloid writers.

carolina @ 02/06/2008 at 3:52 pm

alia @ 02/06/2008 at 3:46 pm Hiya Carolina ((((waving))))

Is this story not insane??

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of course.
It´s garbage, sick, and absolutely stupid.
Why L & S is so obsecessed with shi??? She´s a lil baby, an innocent girl

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Couldn’t agree more!

stop believing in tabloid crap

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PS, thanks Mercy. I would rather read about TRUE stories on this family. Too many, like Paige, only know of Angie as a character in a tabloid story. She is a wonderful person and doing so much good. Sad some people in this world dont have their focus in the right place.

PAIGE = SAM=DJ=BET ETC I know tabloid is your BIBLE LOL

nyc @ 02/06/2008 at 1:59 pm
julianne @ 02/06/2008 at 1:00 pm

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ITA. Their safety is far more important for me too.
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Julianne - good thoughts! I would get my kids out of harm’s way and only come to the US for work. Or, else move to Springfield where they respect their privacy. OR, Take a clue from Gwynnie and Modonna because it looks like the London based home works fairly well for them. Get the heck out of Hellay and all the crazed people who reside there! It’s unhealthy for one’s health to live in that place and I would like them to give their kids a more normal life, which they will never get in Hellay.

Did she really go to Jordon? I mean, that report came from a tabloid newspaper. No other legitimate sources. She could just be in London for something else.

#218: Because they think that if Angelina gets out of the limelight, their idol will have a clear field. As long as Angelina is a star, their idol won’t have a chance to shine. She’ll always be in the shade and her fans will always be gawking at JP fans and lamenting their loser status!

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This sounds crazy, unfortunately I have read fanistons who actually think like this. They can’t stand to see this family in the limelight. Why can’t they just like who they like and ignore who they don’t?

I’m tired of reading this tabloid Crap, so I’m going to post a few adorable pics of Shiloh :)
http://www.splashnewsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/splashnews_spl4179_004.jpg

http://buzznet-00.vo.llnwd.net/media/jj1/2007/09/brad-kidville/01-brad-angelina-kidville.jpg

http://buzznet-00.vo.llnwd.net/media/jj1/2007/08/jolie-zoo/angelina-jolie-petting-zoo-05.jpg

alia this is one of my favs
http://bp1.blogger.com/_xpoGYZrSn6M/R4u8NQwLjBI/AAAAAAAAAM8/mDY1FxYDjyI/s1600-h/041.jpg

i love this too
http://bp0.blogger.com/_xpoGYZrSn6M/R4uglAwLi0I/AAAAAAAAALU/iEoZ57jQn7g/s1600-h/016.jpg

“And Life & Style continues on its solo mission to kidnap Baby Shiloh. This week, the mag reported that Shiloh has a stalker. It forgot to mention that said stalker is in fact Life & Style.”

:/

Please blur famous kids’ faces in the pictures passed around on the internet. This is so dangerous as it causes them being targeted by many weirdos!

http://www.hellomagazine.com/vote/mostattractivewoman/index.html
Keep voting for her.

And Life & Style continues on its solo mission to kidnap Baby Shiloh. This week, the mag reported that Shiloh has a stalker. It forgot to mention that said stalker is in fact Life & Style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PStHp4KxQN0&feature=related

My all-time favorite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2f5EWbRexE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lA0yiRLALU

this really make me sick, why are they allowed to publish pictures of kids, that shouldn’t be allowed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lA0yiRLALU&feature=related

brad and angie need to do something about this…..these tabs have crossed the line time after time.this world is crazy

funny how the haters say we are obsessed and yet they post more than we do….weirdos hehehehehehehe

Well, either this is BS, which I’m guessing, or Jolie is the worst mother in the world. It’s because of her that Shiloh is known to the weirdos of the world, she pimps her out all the time…and now that there is alleged threats, she’s where??? Not even in this country!! Bow down to the Mother of the World!!

I also do not believe LIFE&STYLE magazine they just want to sell their magazine!! What a stupid way to sell magazines!!Remember you are not reading PEOPLE MAGAZINE, that’s all folks!!!Bye for now!!

Hi Carolina!

to #262:

Pimps Shiloh out all the time? When have you ever seen Angie and Brad drag Shiloh out on the red carpet to promote a movie? We only see Shiloh with them when they go to a museum, shopping for art supplies, or visiting Daddy at work on the set. You know, normal stuff that families do. You must be talking about TomKat, who brought Suri out and dressed her in designer clothes when they promoted Lions for Lambs and Mad Money.

You already know this stuff is BS, and yet you still had to put in your snark against Angelina!

Pls BOYCOTT THIS THREAD> SICK SICK!!

justjazz, a lot of people are back on the previous thread. we don’t want to support this one.

http://www.hellomagazine.com/vote/mostattractivewoman/index.html

VOTE FOR ANGIE.

AMEN #wondering

Thank You Mercy for all of the post!!!!the Jolie-Pitts are amazing.

#236 i never stuck up for Aniston. I don’t care about any of these people.. Jolie’s getting on in the years and starved herself into looking rough. Aniston never had a career off of Friends. Angie’s done a couple good films at least. But really Aniston to me are on the same level. Pitt has had a god film run but seems a lot more reserved then his wife so I don’t have anything to say about him.

I said it because their children should have full-time parents and a steady place to live and all that goes with that. If I had children and didn’t have to work or bounce them all over the place I certainly would want to have them be my main focus and where th main source of my time would be spent.

#236 : You old wet hen.You are jealous of Angie and Brad,why don’t you drop your ass off the face of earth,we are not stupid we know who the troll is, on this thread…..you self righteous old bitty..Have a nice day aniston….

God Blesss that Precious child, although I don’t believe rags like life and style, there are some real nut cases out there, and I would not be surprised if they have had threats, So very sad

WHO CARES??

Gussie @ 02/06/2008 at 11:28 am I doubt this is true. Most probably a stupid and inconsiderate invention from a tabloid only idiots buy.

BUT, in case there is some truth in the story, the police should start by investigating the haters who post here. It is so easy to track people on the Internet…

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I agree, there are a lot of nuts in this world who would do anything for 15 minutes of fame. And its true, anyone that makes horrible remarks about innocent children on the net should be looked at closely

Hey let’s all get together and file a class-action suit against these tabs that are using real people for their stinking sales. Even better, why don’t we JUST IGNORE THEM and never never buy a rag, and then they’ll be outta biz!!!!!!!!!!!!!

why bother buying them why this site provides it for you … LOL

SHiloh isnt as cute as the other baby celebs

wooden legs Angelina @ 02/06/2008 at 7:43 pm
i can totally see why someone would do this
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Are you out of your fcuking mind? You actually advocate kidnapping a child because you don’t happen to like the parents?

You know what? If you have any children of your own, CPS should take them away so they don’t grow up to be a pathological bítch like you. If you don’t have any, you should be forcibly sterilized just in case.

Jared, you need to delete this thread ASAP. And please post any more threads based on phony articles in the tabloids. You’re better than that.

tabloids tell story even without basis. Anyway, true or not, Brad & Ange should not let their guards down. So many people out there are crazy. They will do anything to get their pictures specially their kids. How crazy the world we live in.
I’m happy, I got my pink tote bag from Make It Right NOLA today. It’s really beautiful. I will carry it with pride specially the project is headed by Brad.
God bless the Jolie-Pitt’s.

Shame on Jared

BOYCOTTING THIS THREAD!!!

Since the FBI is investigating into Intouch editors/staffers, they might as well include the whole Bauer organization….or all these tabloids.

Lies and Shiit obsession over this child is creepy. The FBI should check L&S because they are the ones stalking this family.

What a way to spin a pap trespassing in their house news story into this kind of cokc and bull story.

#279: Paige, you pathetic troll…that is what is wrong with you. You don’t have children! Stop raising other people’s kids. Buy a husband if you can’t find one or run to the nearest sperm bank. It’s womb envy you’re feeling…and a selective envy at that!

i THINK ITS NOT TRUE, or if ever its true why angie is working now as ambassador of united nations for the refugee in jordan. shes too young to always go out!

LOL what are you hypocrites talking about? You love the tabs, you live your life to read them and talk bad about them on how untrue they are (well of course it is about the ex, then it is true). This site is tab gossip and about stalking. You all stalk this family every day all day … do you seriously feel you are any diff then the paps?? They are stalking this family and their kids for you .. are you all proud of yourselves? Now J has been giving blow by blow of this familys life and he gives you another thread and you all throw him under the bus … WOW! i was right all along about you freaks you would throw your mother or kids out to the trash if they said anything ill of this family … You all have seriously mental issues.

#305 tita i don’t have “womb envy”. kids are great but i’m single, well-employed, living in nyc and have a pretty fabulous life which i love. i come on here when i’m bored.. like when it’s raining and i can’t/don’t want to get out. i expressed my opinion and that’s that. if and when i decide to have children i’ll be financially stable enough to devote as much time to them as i can and my career will come second. which is why in my mid-20’s i’m still childless.. i’m building and securing my future for myself and my family.

This thread is very unpleasant. This time they have reallygone too far.

hahaha tht idioti PAIGE claims to hv a fabulous life …LOL….. u hv a fabulous life in a blog! …if we knew , u are crazy , insecure , monkey and barely make money….how bout a lowlife criticizing people who are better thn u ?….calling them idiot?…these couple are doing good, has beautiful life & family, intelligent and most of all beautiful people. now , whose the real idiot ?…if u hv a brain, u know it U! , the hater who call the good ones idiot, when infact u see the idiot in the mirror, anyway wht happened to ur other personality LiLa , u already forgot her?….do u think ur idiotic LiLa personality will come out soon agreeing with u, maybe or would deny in ur idiotic manner.

oh paige is from dilisted, oh i c tht’s why u hv idiotic brain. ha!…..fabulous life …lol….maybe fagulous face, i guess!

LOL @ 02/06/2008 at 6:01 pm OH YEAH ANGIE IS THE ONE PIMPIMG THEM OUT BUT SOMEHOW EVERY TIME SHE LEAVES THEE COUNTRY BRAD MANAGES TO BE SEEN BY THE PAPZ WITH ZAHARA.

LAST TIME HE TOOK ZAHARA OUT ON A HORSE CARRIAGE RIDE AND NOW HE TOOK HER TO FREAKING GAP? C’MON…. LIKE ANGIE SHOPS AT GAP. PLEASE… EVERY TIME HE NEEDS SOME GOOD PR HE BRINGS OUT THE KID FOR THE GOOD DADDY HEADLINES. gmab
SHE KNOWS HOW TO HIDE HERSELF AND HER KIDS BETTER THAN BRAD WHEN THEY ARE IN LA.

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Excuse me you want brad and angelina to keep their kids indoor for the rest of their life just because when they go out and let their kids go to places like ordinary people they are pimping the kids?? but when kate holmes & tom cruise, Gwen, and Jennifer garner, and the rest of the celebrity go out with their kids they are not doing it for PR but becoz they are just ordinary family doing their thing>>> WTF?? You really need to see a shrink with youtr obsessive hatred for the jolie-pitts family you “low life”

Fans–Don’;t click on “Hey OT” #89’s link–you can’t get out of it, and you have to close out and reenter Jared’s entire site. BOO ON YOU, “Hey OT”!

Delete her, Jared!

Jill @ 02/06/2008 at 11:44 pm
Jilll @ 02/06/2008 at 11:35 pm
I’m so stupid.
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You got that right. You not only steal my name, you can’t even spell it correctly.

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well jenniloonies/trolls are known to be mentally challenge people bwahahhahahahha!!!

BOYCOTT

Love the BAMPZS fans here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!All of you are so awesome!!!!!BAMPZS are so lucky to have so many fans that totally love them!!!!!

shiloh’s adorable. i don’t think this is true…well, hopefully at least.

Lila @ 02/06/2008 at 2:03 pm

The cops should go after aniston fans like Lila @ 02/06/2008 at 2:03 pm

Why did Angie release a statement announcing that she is trying for a baby and won’t be able to do some of the press tours in June/July?

I don’t get it…I’ve never head of any celebrity announcing they are tyring for a baby. That’s pretty personal.

Why did Angie release a statement announcing that she is trying for a baby and won’t be able to do some of the press tours in June/July?

Is this true?

http://www.people.com/people/stylewatch/gallery/0,,20170225,00.html

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/07/jolie.transcript/

Transcript: CNN interviews Angelina Jolie

Damon: There are reports out of Hollywood that… (laughs)

Damon: No you don’t. I completely and totally you’re right and will not press the matter.

http://www.hellomagazine.com/vote/mostattractivewoman/index.html

It is obviously true that maybe Ange is pregnant, she is mum about it & maybe in due time, Brad & her will announce it when her tummy starts to show but you can see on the picture that she has a small bump on the tummy part. She is wearing black & the picture is small so it is really hard to tell. She is probably on her way home now. So proud of you & your family is so proud of you. She is probably on her way home back to the US by now. God bless the Jolie-Pitt.s

If it’s true, it’s their own fault. Shiloh is okay but she sure isn’t
the cutest baby in Hollywood. She just doesn’t seem to have
much expression on her face. Maybe because of the way she
lives but for her age I would think she would be doing more.

Shi is a beautiful just look at her features.

OMG, why live your life, as others want you too? A person should live their lives as they choose to. They have the resources to protect their family. If they give up their “causes” and values. They might as well shut themselves off from the rest of the world. That is no life, only the jealous would want that for them. Why give the sickos control of their private lives? Give it a rest, they will choose to live their lives, how they “want” to live it. The Government should find and lock up people with the sick minds, not the innocent. And quit picking on and innocent Baby! Must make you feel like a “big and strong man,” to put down an innocent baby! All babies are cute, and the only pictures you see of the baby are the, from here to there pictures. You don’t see their private interactions, as they choose to keep it private. And the pictures aren’t taken just for your benefit, lol. They are taken by the paparazzi, who invade their space. You weirdo!

that would be jennifer aniston, methinks!

i am such a big fan of brad hes so hottt!

all this **** makes me ****** pissed they should shoot up the bith who is doing i mean they should um put them someplace where they can do no harm to any one

sortof offtopic but hey look @ the pic: why can’t the girls EVER wear “girl” colours? I mean is it a crime for Angelina to EVER put them in something truly feminine? are they even ALLOWED to be girls in this family? or must they ALWAYS wear shades of blue, browns, greys, etc colours mainly associated with MALES? why no pinks? or pastels? EVER??

she’s so cute!!!