Angelina Jolie is definitely not just another Hollywood celebrity. Once again, she has used her status to spread awareness for a very important cause.
Brad Pitt's wife together with their daughter Shiloh Jolie-Pitt went to Turkey last Saturday in recognition of the World Refugee Day.
They have visited a Syrian and Iraqi refugee camp where the award-winning actress aired out her plea to the world leaders, encouraging them to get involved in the "worst refugee crisis ever recorded."
"Our world has never been richer or healthier or more advanced," Jolie stated. "Yet never before have so many people been dispossessed and stripped of their basic human rights."
"People are running out of places to run to. If you are an Iraqi or a Syrian fleeing violence, where do you go? Every border country is being pushed beyond its limits."
As the United Nations ambassador on the refugee issues, the-40 year old made sure to learn the issues surrounding the innocent victims. Sadly, funds and resources are not enough to help everyone in need.
"We should see this time in displacement as the time where we should take the most care, and give the most support. Not because they are vulnerable, but because in fact they are the future stability of all the countries we say we are so concerned about," Jolie petitioned.
"We must protect them, and invest in them. They are not a problem, they are part of the solution to the global crisis. They are the potential for the rebuilding and restabilization of countries."
She also made an appeal to other people in power to experience a first-hand view of the harsh realities many families face today.
"I call, again, on the United Nations Security Council: Send your ministers and ambassadors here. Witness this crisis for yourself," Jolie said. "See that it simply cannot go on. And that it is past time for a credible plan to reach a political solution to end the conflict."
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