Angelina Jolie leaves position as UN refugee company envoy

By Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS: Angelina Jolie and the United Nations’ refugee company are parting methods after greater than twenty years.

In a joint assertion issued on Friday, the US actor and the company introduced she was “moving on” from her position because the company’s particular envoy “to engage on a broader set of humanitarian and human rights issues.”

“I will continue to do everything in my power in the years to come to support refugees and other displaced people,” Jolie was quoted as saying within the assertion, including that she felt it was time “to work differently” by straight participating with refugees and native organizations.

Jolie first began working with the UN refugee company in 2001 and was appointed its particular envoy in 2012. The launch described the multi-hyphenate as “finishing up greater than 60 area missions to bear witness to tales of struggling in addition to hope and resilience.”

“After a long and successful time with UNHCR, I appreciate her desire to shift her engagement and support her decision,” UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi was quoted as saying. “I know the refugee cause will remain close to her heart, and I am certain she will bring the same passion and attention to a wider humanitarian portfolio.”

In an opinion piece printed in The Guardian final month, Jolie alluded to frustration with the shortage of worldwide progress in ending sexual violence in battle.

“We meet and discuss these horrors and agree that they should never be allowed to happen again. We promise to draw — and to hold — that line. But when it comes to hard choices about how to implement these promises, we run into the same problems time and again,” she wrote, particularly calling out U.N. Security Council members for “abusing their veto energy.”

Jolie beforehand characterised the United Nations as “imperfect” throughout a 2017 speech in Geneva, but additionally defended the worldwide physique and stated it wanted to be supported.

She later pressed the United Nations to create a everlasting and impartial investigative physique to amass and consider proof in instances relating to alleged struggle crimes, crimes towards humanity and different human rights violations. While selling that effort at UN headquarters in 2019, she instructed the AP that selling equality for ladies, combatting injustice, and serving to refugees had been a very powerful components of her life after her kids.

“But in some ways, they go hand in hand,” she stated. Jolie has been concerned in different advocacy efforts, lately pushing for the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act within the US.

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Jolie started visiting refugee camps in 2001 and was appointed as a UNHCR goodwill ambassador that very same yr. At the time, the then-high commissioner stated he hoped the then-26-year-old actress may direct younger individuals’s consideration to the plight of refugees.

Last yr, Jolie instructed The Associated Press in Burkina Faso that she was involved that rising displacement the world over would drive extra instability — and that governments needed to do one thing to deal with the conflicts on the root of the difficulty.

“Compared to when I began working with UNHCR 20 years ago, it seems like governments have largely given up on diplomacy … countries which have the least are doing the most to support the refugees,” she stated.

Developing nations play host to greater than 80 per cent of the world’s refugees, based on UNHCR, which additionally introduced in May that the variety of displaced individuals crossed 100 million for the primary time. In August, Grandi praised the European Union’s efforts to help Ukrainian refugees however implored world leaders to recollect the opposite humanitarian crises for which his company was fundraising.

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“The big problem that we have at the moment is that it tends to marginalize all other crises in which people suffer,” Grandi stated of Russia’s struggle in Ukraine.

UNHCR lists completely different classes of “prominent supporters” on its web site, together with goodwill ambassadors like Australian actor Cate Blanchett, British creator Neil Gaiman and Pakistani actor Mahira Khan.

In response to a request for added remark, a spokesperson for the UN company declined to supply additional particulars past saying that UNHCR “has no intention of appointing anyone else in the role of special envoy.”

UNITED NATIONS: Angelina Jolie and the United Nations’ refugee company are parting methods after greater than twenty years.

In a joint assertion issued on Friday, the US actor and the company introduced she was “moving on” from her position because the company’s particular envoy “to engage on a broader set of humanitarian and human rights issues.”

“I will continue to do everything in my power in the years to come to support refugees and other displaced people,” Jolie was quoted as saying within the assertion, including that she felt it was time “to work differently” by straight participating with refugees and native organizations.

Jolie first began working with the UN refugee company in 2001 and was appointed its particular envoy in 2012. The launch described the multi-hyphenate as “finishing up greater than 60 area missions to bear witness to tales of struggling in addition to hope and resilience.”

“After a long and successful time with UNHCR, I appreciate her desire to shift her engagement and support her decision,” UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi was quoted as saying. “I know the refugee cause will remain close to her heart, and I am certain she will bring the same passion and attention to a wider humanitarian portfolio.”

In an opinion piece printed in The Guardian final month, Jolie alluded to frustration with the shortage of worldwide progress in ending sexual violence in battle.

“We meet and discuss these horrors and agree that they should never be allowed to happen again. We promise to draw — and to hold — that line. But when it comes to hard choices about how to implement these promises, we run into the same problems time and again,” she wrote, particularly calling out U.N. Security Council members for “abusing their veto energy.”

Jolie beforehand characterised the United Nations as “imperfect” throughout a 2017 speech in Geneva, but additionally defended the worldwide physique and stated it wanted to be supported.

She later pressed the United Nations to create a everlasting and impartial investigative physique to amass and consider proof in instances relating to alleged struggle crimes, crimes towards humanity and different human rights violations. While selling that effort at UN headquarters in 2019, she instructed the AP that selling equality for ladies, combatting injustice, and serving to refugees had been a very powerful components of her life after her kids.

“But in some ways, they go hand in hand,” she stated. Jolie has been concerned in different advocacy efforts, lately pushing for the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act within the US.

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Jolie started visiting refugee camps in 2001 and was appointed as a UNHCR goodwill ambassador that very same yr. At the time, the then-high commissioner stated he hoped the then-26-year-old actress may direct younger individuals’s consideration to the plight of refugees.

Last yr, Jolie instructed The Associated Press in Burkina Faso that she was involved that rising displacement the world over would drive extra instability — and that governments needed to do one thing to deal with the conflicts on the root of the difficulty.

“Compared to when I began working with UNHCR 20 years ago, it seems like governments have largely given up on diplomacy … countries which have the least are doing the most to support the refugees,” she stated.

Developing nations play host to greater than 80 per cent of the world’s refugees, based on UNHCR, which additionally introduced in May that the variety of displaced individuals crossed 100 million for the primary time. In August, Grandi praised the European Union’s efforts to help Ukrainian refugees however implored world leaders to recollect the opposite humanitarian crises for which his company was fundraising.

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“The big problem that we have at the moment is that it tends to marginalize all other crises in which people suffer,” Grandi stated of Russia’s struggle in Ukraine.

UNHCR lists completely different classes of “prominent supporters” on its web site, together with goodwill ambassadors like Australian actor Cate Blanchett, British creator Neil Gaiman and Pakistani actor Mahira Khan.

In response to a request for added remark, a spokesperson for the UN company declined to supply additional particulars past saying that UNHCR “has no intention of appointing anyone else in the role of special envoy.”