UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie

In early 2001, Angelina Jolie approached the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) asking how she could help refugees.

She wanted to learn more about humanitarian field operations. Shortly after spending a day in briefings with UNHCR in Washington DC, she was on her way to Côte d'Ivoire, Tanzania and Sierra Leone, where she spent several weeks meeting refugees and working with UNHCR field staff. During the summer of 2001 she traveled with UNHCR through Cambodia (July) and later spent a week with Afghan refugees in Pakistan (August).

On August 27, 2001, Jolie was named UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, accepting the responsibility of meeting with and advocating for the protection of refugees on five continents. For over four years, Jolie has traveled with UNHCR to remote and often forgotten regions, meeting refugees and field workers in some 20 countries and regions including Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Côte d'Ivoire, Pakistan, Cambodia, Thailand, Ecuador, Kenya, Namibia, Kosovo, Sri Lanka, the Russian Federation, Jordan, Egypt, Chad, Sudan's Darfur region and Lebanon.

She has kept journals during several of her missions. Journals of her first four missions were published two years ago in a book, "Notes from My Travels, Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador" (October 2003, Simon and Schuster).

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