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Jolie visits Bosnia, hopes to support education
A top official in Bosnia says Angelina Jolie is interested in supporting education and other projects to help young Bosnians and people who return to homes they left during the war.
Haris Silajdzic, chairman of Bosnia’s three-member...
Angelina Jolie donates $110,000 to Pakistan flood victims
HOLLYWOOD star Angelina Jolie, in Europe to promote her spy thriller Salt, has donated AU$110,448 to help refugees from Pakistan’s floods, UN sources told AFP.
A crowd of 1,000 fans engulfed the 34-year-old actress, who is also...
Angelina returns to Ecuador
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has returned to northern Ecuador to see how the situation has changed since she was last in the country eight years ago and to raise awareness about unaccompanied minors and violence against...
Angelina Jolie appeals for safety of civilians in Somali capital
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie today expressed her concern for the lives and the well-being of thousands of displaced people who are trapped in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.
More than 170,000 Somalis have been forced...
Angie and Brad in Bosnia
UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina and Brad Pitt visit Bosnian Muslim refugee Sabina Karman, second from left in background, and her four children, in the village of Medjedja, near the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad, 70 kilometers...
Angelina Jolie ‘Struck by the Strength and Spirit of the Haitian People’
Actress and activist Angelina Jolie on Wednesday visited survivors and met with aid workers of last month’s devastating earthquake in Haiti.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) goodwill ambassador (pictured...
Angie visits Haiti
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and actress Angelina Jolie, greets MINUSTAH staff after meeting with the MINUSTAH Head of Mission, the Special Representative of the Secretary General, Mr. Edmond Mullet in his office at MINUSTAH’s Logbase...
