| This section here is dedicated to Angelina Jolie's work as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNHCR. She has been invovled and started educating herself with hands on information since 2001 after shooting the film Tomb Raider in Cambodia (where her son Maddox was born). She donates at least half of her paychecks from the movies she stars in to organizations in need to help refugees world wide. She has since published a book Notes From My Travels about her journeys to places like Sierra Leone & the congo. With profits going towards the UN's organizations to help displaced refugees. |
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Angelina Jolie's UNHCR Page On the offical UNHCR site you can learn more about Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie and her missions and causes she is working hard towards. You can watch her in humanitarian action in the Multimedia section and get a sense of what her own eyes witness on her visits through these war torn countries. You can also keep up to date on the current hot issues she is working on and the missions she has currently been involved in and how she feels about them. Click HERE to view. |
Angelina Jolie's UNHCR Journals Aside from her book Notes From My Travels you can also view more of Angelina's journals on the UNHCR's Angelina Jolie's Refugee Journal's Page. You can now read about her travels and experiences from place like Jordan, Kosovo, Sri Lanka, & the Russian Federation. Click HERE to get started. You can also view her Thailand Journal HERE |
Angelina Jolie In Refugee Magazine/October 2006 Angelina Jolie is refeatured in October's Refugee Magazine (thanks to Katja from SoulieJolie.com) addressing the refugee crisis at hand. In this article you can read about the launching of Angelina Jolie's UNHCR's Emergency Response Team initiative. The mission of this repsonse team is to be available around the clock to respond to any major refugee crisis wherever it may be in the world. To read more about this cause click HERE |
A Trip To Darfur In this issue of People Weekly you can read and see Mia Farrows recent visit to Darfur. While on her visit she has captured in images the devastastion these people are living in and trying to live through every day. To read the article & view her photographs click HERE. To view more on Darfur go HERE |
March.02.2007 Angelina Returns To The Crisis In Chad to Visit Darfur Refugees!!!!  UN Ambassador Angelina Jolie makes a two day trip to an eastern camp in Chad to visit refugees and get up close and personal with the issues at hand. This is Angelina's 2nd visit to Chat. Her first was back in 2004. Ms. Jolie also wrote an article on the crisis in the Washington Post. With an international court finally in place she talks about how this may be the moment to stop the violence and deliver justice for the people who have been endlessly tortured as "what the worst people in the world fear most in justice.That's what we should deliver." A bit of the article: "On Monday I asked a group of refugees about their needs. Better tents said one; better access to medical facilities said another. Then a teenage boy raised his hand and said, with powerful simplicity, "Nous voulons une epreuve." We want a trial." You can read about Angelina's visit to Chad HERE at accesshollywood.com. You can view her Washington Post article HERE. |
March.13.2007 Angelina Gives NewsWeek Magazine an Interview As An Insight To Her Trip To Chad  Angelina Jolie has been spending time in between the border of Darfur & Chad, her second trip there since 2004, gaining light on the needs and dangers of the refugees and UN workers. In photographs, that will break your heart, Angelina has let her travels to be documented in the plight of these people. In the March 13th issue of NewsWeek (on stands now) magazine she gives further insight into those photographs and why she allows herself and the people to be captured during this time. She also shares the touching story of her holding a little boy that was chained to a tree for his own saftey.. " As a first reaction you want to remove [the rope]...... But if [he's] left alone he will disappear or bang himself." Read and view the interview and pictures HERE. You can also view Angelina on her travels through Chad HERE. To make a donation to the UNHCR to help the refugees that are very much in need please visit UNHCR.org |
April.27.2007  Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt are spolighted for their humanitarian work in People Weekly's 100 Most Beautiful People List-May 7th 2007 issue. The picture above is from Jolie's recent trip to Darfur & Chad which was spotlighted in Newsweek's March 13th issue where Angelina wrote an article about the state of the genocide taking place there. You can read about it HERE. You can read this spotlight on Angelina & Brad's Humanitarian Work HERE. |
Sept 2, 2007 Angelina Jolie Visits Iraq & Syria  On Tuesday, August 28th, UNHCR Ambassador Angelina Jolie visited the bleak areas of Iraq & Syria where she spent time with sick children & elderly refugees learning first hand about the plight of more than 4 million refugees who have been uprooted by the conflict in Iraq. She also took the time to inspect a site where the UNHCR is building a school. Read about Angelina Jolie's recent travels HERE. Donate to the UNHCR to help refugees HERE. Learn how to help further or how to get involved with the UNHCR HERE. |
Sept 27, 2007 Angelina Jolie Speaks At The Clinton Global Intiative  At the Clinton Global Intiative Ms. Jolie speaks about why education is so important to not only the children in our own backyards but most importantly refugees. She opens up about what she herself as seen as well as stories she has been told from the refugees she has met and talked with. You can view the video and pictures (thanks to JustJared) HERE. |
November 14, 2007 Angelina Jolie Calls For Tougher Action  ANGELINA JOLIE is calling for world leaders to persecute those who commit crimes against humanity, because it is the only way to hold people to account. The Hollywood actress and human rights campaigner made her plea to international governments in a new article for The Economist magazine, entitled The World in 2008, in which she urged tougher action against rogue leaders. And Jolie, a goodwill ambassador to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), hopes to see something done soon to combat the ongoing genocide in Darfur, western Sudan. She has visited neighbouring Chad twice once in 2003 and again earlier this year (07) - to speak to victims of the Sudanese atrocity and highlight their cause. Writing in The Economist magazine, she says, “Accountability is perhaps the only force powerful enough to break the cycle of violence and retribution that marks so many conflicts. “Through accountability we can begin the process of righting past wrongs, and even change the behaviour of some of the world’s worst criminals. You can read the full article HERE. |
February 7, 2008 Angelina Jolie Gives Exclusive Interview To CNN On Her Trip To Baghdad  Angelina Jolie sits down with CNN's Arwa Damon and talks about why she has chosen to visit Baghdad and how she plans to address the issues of the refugees. She also speak of what she believes will eventually happen if these people are not properly placed back in their homes and what that will mean for the Middle East. You can view the interview HERE. Also watch a clip of Angelina eating with the troops HERE. |
