Actress Angelina Jolie visits Iraq
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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics
United Nations, New York, 23 July 2009 - Noon briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. Academy award-winning actress and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations refugee agency Angelina Jolie today called for greater support for the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who remain displaced. This is a moment where things seem to be improving on the ground, but Iraqis need a lot of support and help to rebuild their lives, said Ms. Jolie, who was today visiting families in a makeshift settlement in a suburb of Baghdad, on her third visit to the country. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador spent a day at a camp in the Chikook suburb of north-west Baghdad, home to some 20,000 people, listening to men, women and children forced from their homes in the western suburbs of the capital. News story: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=31564&Cr=iraq&Cr1=displaced
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