Jolie issues emotional plea on behalf of refugees
Angelina Jolie issues emotional plea on behalf of refugees around world
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Friday, 19, Jun 2009 11:28
Angelina Jolie has issued an emotional plea on behalf of refugees around the world.
Speaking at a World Refugee Day event in Washington, Jolie declared: "Refugees are not numbers. They're not even just refugees. They are mothers, and daughters and fathers and sons."
The Wanted actress has been a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees since 2001.
And on Thursday she paid tribute to the 10.5 million people now recognised by the commission.
It was also announced yesterday Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt had donated $1 million (£612,000) to the hundreds of thousands of people recently uprooted by violence in Pakistan.
In an interview with CNN, Jolie said her humanitarian work was having a profound affect on the way she treated her own children.
"I want to make sure they go out into the world, as I've been fortunate enough to do, in whatever way they can and really see the way other people live and meet these other children that are so strong, that are so grateful, with so little and are such strong survivors," she said.
"I think by witnessing them, by meeting them, by making friends with these type of people, these type of children, it will make my children better people."