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Angelina Jolie Celebrates World Refugee Day
Since early 2001, Angelina Jolie has traveled the world as a Goodwill Ambassador to UNHCR, The UN Refugee Agency. On World Refugee Day, she pays tribute to the forcibly uprooted and to the people who protect them.
Here’s what Angie, who is expecting twins with Brad Pitt this summer, says in her PSA:
“They have survived war, they have survived displacement, they have survived rape, they have survived hunger and disease. For those who have survived and for those who did not, we are thinking of you on this day.”
Friday, June 20 is World Refugee. Visit UNHCR.org to get involved.
Angelina Jolie Celebrates World Refugee Day
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Neleh -
I’ve been posting the name “micro” or a long time.
Recently, someone has been using this name.
Therefore, I’m changing to another name.
or = for (referring to comment # 51)
WRD
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bSfkAGuslKs
She´s doing a lot of good things. That´s why I admire her, she´s nice, of course, she´s living with Brad and they have 3 adopted children - 4 with Shi… of course. But the most best thing about Jolie is this.
to micro
micro the best way is contact jared even though you using new name that will not stop troll to use it.
The message is clear and very direct. Kudos to Angie and UNHCR.
angie keep up the good work
to # 16 micro
You have taken my name.
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I shall put this ON RECORD.
I shall also tell him to pay attention to your IP in case you continue your LIBEL and SLANDER.
interesting information norse42 posted on that last video:
~Those interested in refugee rights:
Today, 8 million of the world’s 14 million refugees are warehoused. They are denied their basic human rights.
For 10, 20 or 40 years, men, women, and children have been confined to their camps.
Camps are the breeding ground for disease, child soldiering, terrorist recruitment, and physical and sexual violence. Often, they are funded by UNHCR.
For more info on warehousing, go to the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants website
#22 I AGREE WITH YOU, BUT NOT INDIVIDUAL PERSON, IF YOU WATCH THOSE YOU TUBE POEMS/POET ON THE INTERNET. YOU WILL LEARN WHO REALLY ARE THE MONSTER, WHO START THE WAR AND HIRE TO HIT THOSE BUILDING AND KILLED PROPLE, HOW SAD, JUST TO GET SOME EXCUSE TO GET WHAT THEY WANT. THEY USED BIN LADIN NAME, SO THEY CAN GET AWAY. I BELIEVED SOMEDAY SOMEHOW, THOSE PEOPLE WHO IS INCHARGED IN CORRUPTION/CORRUPTING OTHER COUNTRY BECAUSE THEIR COUNTRY DON’T HAVE ENOUGH WHAT THE OTHER COUNTRY HAVE WILL PAY, THEY ARE SO GREEDY, THEY WANT MORE AND MORE. IF THEY ARE NOT GREEDY, THERE’S NO HUNGER AND NO HOMELESS ALL POOR PEOPLE HAVE A HOUSE AND HAVE ENOUGH FOOD TO EAT.
I love this Beautiful Lady,Thanks ! Angelina for Caring.Thank-You ! Jared for posting This Thread,you are the Best..Hi to all Jolie-Pitt Fans,Love all of You.I am waiting on the The Jolie-Pitt Twins,But I want Angelina and Babies to take their Time.We want Nice Healthy Babies.Have a Good Day and Peace be with You.Bye.
You have taken my name.
I’m going to EMAIL justjared. I shall tell him that I’m NO LONGER using this name.
I shall put this ON RECORD.
I shall also tell him to PAY ATTENTION to your IP # in case you continue your LIBEL and SLANDER.
that lady host from the show Top Chef Padma Lakshmi really looks like AJ, i thought it was her at first, they’re both beautiful women, neway, can’t wait for them twins to come.
UNHCR
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oUMoKu2X358&feature=related
soft,i understand,bu email jared and tell him
to # 16 micro
I’ve just emailed to NOTE your IP # for FUTURE reference.
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World Refugee Day: Iraqi musician raises USD 24,000 for UNHCR programmes
DAMASCUS, Syria, June 18 (UNHCR) – Acclaimed Iraqi oud (lute) player Naseer Shamma has raised more than USD 24,000 for UNHCR’s Iraqi refugee programme with a concert at the Damascus Opera House to mark World Refugee Day, which falls on Friday.
The take from Tuesday’s concert will be used to provide financial support for 150 of the most vulnerable Iraqi families in Syria over a month-long period.
Sold out within two days of tickets going on sale, the concert featured new music that Shamma created to reflect the situation of Iraq and Iraqi refugees. The programme included musical dialogues with other performers from Iraq; different styles challenging and mingling, with wisps of music evoking Iraq’s past.
“I am terrified that we are losing Iraq’s culture. Its sense of oneness, its true being,” Shamma said. “I am committed to supporting my people as human beings who have a lot of talent to offer and share.”
At times Shamma played his six-string oud with one hand only, a technique he developed to remember Iraqis who had their hands cut off in the late 1980s during the autocratic regime of the late President Saddam Hussein.
After playing “Good Morning Baghdad,” he called on the audience of 1,300 people to support UNHCR’s Iraqi refugee programme, which is facing a funding crisis. “This support is a lifeline. We all need to do our best to gather people, gather friends to support Iraqi refugees.”
In the past Shamma’s music has been compared by musical critics to a political rally without words. Despite the standing ovation and the warm media reviews, Shamma worried that his work advocating for refugees could affect his music and oud playing.
“I play my music with more conviction, more strongly, but my mind is preoccupied with the problems of my people. I will not stop, but I am challenged with finding the time and space for my practice, my music,” said the musician, much of whose work is inspired by his exile.
Shamma fled Iraq in 1993 when a friend warned him that his arrest was imminent. Several years earlier, he spent 170 days in prison followed by 50 days in hospital. He left Iraq the day of his release and headed to the Jordanian capital of Amman.
Since then, he has only returned to Iraq once – he brought a group of doctors to Baghdad in 1997 to help children needing surgery. Shamma says he will only return to Iraq when there is real democracy and no sectarian divisions. “I need freedom for people in Iraq,” he said after the concert.
As food and fuel prices rise and their savings dwindle, Iraqi refugees are becoming more impoverished. The worst consequences of this poverty are child labour, homelessness, children not attending school and early marriage. UNHCR’s financial assistance programme targets this vulnerable portion of the refugee population – currently some 4,000 families receive help.
Since the beginning of 2007, the falling value of the US dollar has led to a USD 6 million dollar loss of support for the UNHCR programme in Syria. There is a funding shortfall of USD 61 million for the entire Iraq operation, covering Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq.
By Sybella Wilkes
In Damascus, Syria
http://www.unhcr.org/news/NEWS/48590a5b2.html
krung krung @ 06/18/2008 at 11:32 am
I’ve said this before. With all the stupid people saying that Megan what’s her name looks like Angelina, It’s Padma Lakshmi from Top Chef who is THE only person who reminds me of Angelina. They could be sisters.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BoNG9ScDuaU&feature=related
bye bampzs,end of my break
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5oiQzEJhgHg&feature=related
World Refugee Day: Displacement in the 21st Century. A new paradigm
The refugee challenge in the 21st century is changing rapidly. People are forced to flee their homes for increasingly complicated and interlinked reasons. Some 40 million people worldwide are already uprooted by violence and persecution, and it is likely that the future will see more people on the run as a growing number of push factors compound one another to create conditions for further forced displacement.
Today people do not just flee persecution and war but also injustice, exclusion, environmental pressures, competition for scarce resources and all the miserable human consequences of dysfunctional states.
The task facing the international community in this new environment is to find ways to unlock the potential of refugees who have so much to offer if they are given the opportunity to regain control over their lives.
There are three ways we at the UN Refugee Agency are making this goal a reality: we protect, we build and we advocate. First, we protect refugee rights to safety, shelter and health, focusing special attention on the most vulnerable people, particularly women and girls.
Second, we work with our partners to build the capacity of refugees to fend for themselves once they are able to do so. And we work hard to find solutions so that refugees become self-sufficient as soon as possible.
Third, we advocate to draw attention to the plight of refugees and to raise the money necessary to get the job done. Our goal is to persuade people that it is our common responsibility to make a difference for those forced to pick-up and go through no fault of their own. Results on the ground show we are making progress. Last year, we helped hundreds of thousands of people return home. In Africa, bright spots include stepped-up repatriation to South Sudan and winding up of UNHCR’s operations in Liberia and Angola. In April, we held a major conference in Geneva and mobilized international support for the millions fleeing conflict in Iraq. We cannot do this alone. But with your support UNHCR can begin to turn the tide, giving refugees hope for the future and new opportunities for their families and their communities.
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/events?id=3e7f46e04
For the Jen trolls, I guess she was busy in her plastic surgeons office or indulging in her latest boy toy while angie was thinking about refugees and all the disenfranchised on this planet. So I get your obsessive loyalty to such a sterling individual.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0iT3ScEeMSc&feature=related
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