![]() ![]() It was the shooting for the film Tomb Raider in 2000 in Cambodia that awakened her desire to work for humanitarian purposes. Since then she has been visiting refugee camps and crisis areas all over the world in more than 60 missions in order to get a first-hand insight into situations and lives of the people there. ![]() After representing UNHCR from 2001-2012 as the Goodwill Ambassador, she was appointed as the Special Envoy of the UNHCR in April 2012. “These people have lost everything and the trauma and loss they have suffered are unprecedented.” June 2018, Domicile/Iraq, UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie thanks the Iraqis for their generosity towards the Syrian refugees, © UNHCR/ Ivor Prickett Twenty years for human rightsĪngelina Jolie has been dedicated to promoting the cause of refugees and displaced persons for almost two decades now. “This is the worst devastation I have seen in all my years with the UNHCR,” explains the special envoy to UN during her fifth visit to Iraq. The city in Iraq, once so rich in cultural life, was catastrophically destroyed in June 2018, one year after liberation. The apocalyptic scenery of a completely destroyed city, however, is not from a Hollywood set, but the bitter reality of Mossul. Dusty jumper boots, black trousers and a safety vest: Angelina Jolie climbs over heaps of debris and rubble, past the stretches of ruins, dust and destruction. ![]()
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