Angelina Jolie

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Since early 2001, renowned American actress Angelina Jolie has travelled the world with UNHCR to help refugees. She has worked with field staff and met with refugees in over 20 countries.

Angelina Jolie Fact Sheet

An unflagging determination to help the displaced, publicize their plight and lobby for assistance.

Angelina Jolie Biography

A stellar career on the silver screen.

Angelina Jolie's Journals & Books

Read more about Jolie's personal impressions and reflections during her field missions as Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR.

Angelina Jolie Field Missions

Find out more about Jolie's missions to the field, where she has been and what she has been saying.

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Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie in Iraq

During a day-long visit to Baghdad, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie visited a makeshift settlement for internally displaced people in the Chikook suburb of north-west Baghdad where she met with four families displaced from the district of Abu Ghraib and from the western suburbs of the Iraqi capital.

Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie's 2009 World Refugee Day message

UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie released a video for World Refugee Day to draw attention to the plight of millions of people uprooted by conflict and persecution.