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Angelina The GoodWill Ambassador Enter subhead content here The reformed Hollywood bad girl, who is slated to play a humanitarian
aid worker in the upcoming love story Beyond Borders, apparently is doing such a good job prepping for her role that
the United Nations has decided to name her a goodwill ambassador.
We kid you not.
"She has a genuine interest in refugee issues and she is fantastically
popular," Kris Janowski, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, tells Reuters. "The kind of people who find
the U.N. boring--young people and teenagers who are not interested in refugee issues--adore Angelina Jolie."
While the U.N. is making a play for the MTV generation, Jolie seems
genuinely up for the assignment. She made a point of touring refugee camps in Sierra Leone and Cambodia while shooting scenes
for her summer action flick, Tomb Raider.
On Wednesday, the 26-year-old Oscar winner paid a visit to Pakistan's
Jalozai Refugee Camp, where an estimated 60,000 Afghans have come to escape the ravages of their war-torn country.
Jolie reportedly shook hands with refugees, listened to their tales
and witnessed first-hand the filthy living conditions of their tent city.
The tatooed star, who has also spent time in refugee villages in the
Ivory Coast and Tanzania in Africa, was due to tour additional Afghan refugee encampments in the southwestern Baluchistan
province before heading back to Europe to pick up the honor.
Jolie is scheduled to receive her ambassadorship next week at a ceremony
in Geneva.
Jolie follows in the footsteps of other celebs who have been tapped
as U.N. ambassadors for their pet projects. Ex-Spice Girl Geri Halliwell spoke out on birth-control issues and Michael Douglas elected to petition for nuclear disarmament.
The U.N. gig will give Jolie plenty of material for her upcoming role
in Beyond Borders. The film, which had a revolving-door of talent attached to it (including Kevin Costner, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Meg Ryan, Oliver Stone) before Jolie committed and got the project green-lighted, tells the
story of two relief workers who fall in love while traveling the globe to help humanitarian causes during the course of many
years. Shooting is expected to get underway soon.
As for her new U.N. duties, Jolie has turned down all interview requests,
preferring to let her humanitarian efforts do the talking. Last December, Ms. Jolie visited
Ruweished camp in eastern Jordan where more than 500 refugees have settled after fleeing the conflict in Iraq last spring.
Most of them are Palestinians, though some have travelled from Somalia and Sudan. view her jornal : http://www.unhcr.ch/news/joliejordan.pdf After travelling, Angelina Jolie recognized the proliferation
of refugees around the world, and decided to serve as Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR. Angelina Jolie travelling in a
truck with separated refugee children from Kigoma to Lugufu camp in Tanzania visit the link for full story http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0618_030618_angelinajolie.html http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=33274
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A 'must see' video, Jolie gives an interview prior to the official meeting right at
the beginning of this video, if you don't want to see the whole thing, Jolie is back at 1:16 hrs:min (about 90%) for her speech,
she speaks very candid about her work for UNHCR, etc. [Harm].
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