Angelina Jolie NETWORK

She plays many roles onscreen, but Angelina Jolie never loses sight of her important role as a concerned global citizen and active UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. The dedication to her craft that garnered Angelina an Academy Award for her performance in Girl, Interrupted (1999), is reflected in her efforts for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a UN agency that currently assists 20 million refugees in approximately 120 countries.

Tragically, their stories are all too familiar to Angelina, who has met thousands of men, women, and children forced to flee from their homes and struggle to survive as refugees. “You go to these places and you realize what life’s really about and what people are really going through,” says Angelina. “These people are my heroes.”

PROVIDING EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN  -

Angelina Jolie supports NINEMILLION campaign About the education partnership for children of conflict

THE RIGHT OF CHILDREN

The Education Partnership for Children of Conflict is co chaired by UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and Council on Foreign Relations Term Member, Angelina Jolie, and Gene Sperling, Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Council on Foreign Relations.

To learn more about the EPCC visit http://www.educationpartnership.org

ninemillion has partnered with the EPCC to deliver programs to children from Iraq and children from Darfur, to help them to continue their young lives with hope for a brighter future.

Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004

Answers on Iraq

ANGELINA JOLIE-UNHCR GOODWILL AMBASSADOR

Mission statement

UNHCR – THE UNITED NATIONS REFUGEE AGENCY

The High Commissioner for Refugees is mandated by the United Nations to lead and coordinate international action for the worldwide protection of refugees and the resolution of refugee problems.
UNHCR’s primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. In its efforts to achieve this objective, the Office strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, and to return home voluntarily. By assisting refugees to return to their own country or to settle permanently in another country, UNHCR also seeks lasting solutions to their plight. UNHCR’s Executive Committee and the UN General Assembly have authorized involvement with other groups. These include former refugees who have returned to their homeland; internally displaced people; and people who are stateless or whose nationality is disputed.
The Office seeks to reduce situations of forced displacement by encouraging states and other institutions to create conditions which are conducive to the protection of human rights and the peaceful resolution of disputes. In all of its activities, it pays particular attention to the needs of children and seeks to promote the equal rights of women and girls.
The Office works in partnership with governments, regional organizations, international and non-governmental organizations. It is committed to the principle of participation, believing that refugees and others who benefit from the organization’s activities should be consulted over decisions which affect their lives.

GARANTEE THE RIGHTS

PRINCIPLES OF EQUALITY AND NON DISCRIMINATION

FREEDOOM OF EXPRESSION

THE RIGHT OF HEALTHCARE AND FOOD SECURITY

THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN CULTURE AND  IN ART

THE RIGHT TO  EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

THE RIGHT OF EDUCATION

THE RIGHT FOR PEACE

THE RIGHT TO A CHILDHOOD

THE RIGHT OF WATER AND ELECTRICITY

“Refugees are the strongest people we never meet…”

We are engaged to protect Refugees

Angelina’s involvement with UNHCR began with a mission to Sierra Leone, a small African country that – like the Democratic Republic of the Congo – has been devastated by years of brutal civil war. Seeing firsthand the enormous challenges that refugees face was a life-altering experience for Angelina, who decided to use her fame to aid their cause. In 2001, she was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador.

Although only 28, Angelina’s acting career has already spanned two decades. Her first feature role was in Lookin’ to Get Out (1982), a film co-written and co-produced by her father, the acclaimed actor Jon Voight. Since then, she has received Golden Globe Awards for the television movies George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998) and her film credits include Hackers (1995), The Bone Collector (1999), Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003).

As a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Angelina uses her status as a superstar to generate media coverage about the plight of refugees and the conditions under which they live. She has traveled widely to remote refugee camps and receiving centers in countries including Tanzania, Namibia, Cambodia, Pakistan, Thailand, and Ecuador.

To further raise awareness, she has released her personal journals for select field visits that can be accessed at USA for UNHCR. For her efforts, Angelina has been honored with the Church World Service Immigration and Refugee Program Humanitarian Award.

While hosting What’s Going On? Angelina was inspired by the stories of the Fataki brothers, Echa Nyange and Sofia Mocke, all children living at the Lugufu refugee camp in Tanzania.

“Préserver la nature,et informer les hommes”

“TOGETHER” with the  UNHCR

GBC -(Global Business Coalition)

Aids/HIV -Tuberculosis -Malaria

2006 Awards for Business Excellence

WERI

CHANNEL  – CAMPAIGN -EVENTS

CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE

COUNCIL OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS

Angelina and Brad Poverty Activism

UN GOODWILL AMBASSADOR

NINEMILLION

COMMITMENTS AND INVOLVEMENTS

In early 2001, Angelina Jolie approached the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) asking how she could help refugees.

She wanted to learn more about humanitarian field operations. Shortly after spending a day in briefings with UNHCR in Washington DC, she was on her way to Côte d’Ivoire, Tanzania and Sierra Leone, where she spent several weeks meeting refugees and working with UNHCR field staff. During the summer of 2001 she traveled with UNHCR through Cambodia (July) and later spent a week with Afghan refugees in Pakistan (August).

On August 27, 2001, Jolie was named UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, accepting the responsibility of meeting with and advocating for the protection of refugees on five continents. For over four years, Jolie has traveled with UNHCR to remote and often forgotten regions, meeting refugees and field workers in some 20 countries and regions including Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Côte d’Ivoire, Pakistan, Cambodia, Thailand, Ecuador, Kenya, Namibia, Kosovo, Sri Lanka, the Russian Federation, Jordan, Egypt, Chad, Sudan’s Darfur region and Lebanon.

She has kept journals during several of her missions. Journals of her first four missions were published two years ago in a book, “Notes from My Travels”, Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador”