Angelina Jolie speaks out for refugees

2011-03-03 442


Hollywood actress, Angelina Jolie has been in Kabul talking about the plight of returned refugees.


In her role as the UN's Goodwill Ambassador she also spoke out about the tens of thousands of civilians caught up in two separate and fast-unfolding emergencies in the Ivory Coast and Libya.


On her two-day visit she assessed problems of returned refugees still struggling to survive and reintegrate into their communities, almost ten years after returning from exile.


"It is clear travelling through the country that what needs to be done is a very focused approach on these places of return. This idea of what return is and the difference between just returning and reintegrating. And the focus that needs to be put now on reintegration," Jolie said.


Jolie also noted UN's concern about people's "right for safe passage", saying: "I think it is a shame to identify one person as the most vulnerable, or one group or one situation as the most dire, because there are no comparisons."


The UN says thousands of people have been displaced in Abidjan, the Ivory Coast's commercial hub. They say refugees have been streaming across the country's western border into Liberia in unprecedented numbers.

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