ANGELINA JOLIE CALLS for URGENT HELP to SOMALIA REFUGEES (UNHCR) (MaximsNewsNetwork)

UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / 04 October 2011 -- Geneva - Angelina Jolie, the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, today (04 October) called for urgent help to help the people in Somalia and surrounding countries who are suffering from famine and in near-death conditions in a situation she called "the humanitarian crisis of a generation."
In a speech to the leadership of the UN Refugee Agency in Geneva, Angelina Jolie said that humanitarian work "needs to scale up to meet the needs of these individuals" and warned that the level of world response will determine "whether a huge number of people live or die."
Jolie and the Yemeni humanitarian aid group Society for Humanitarian Solidarity (SHS) were praised for their outstanding work to help the world's refugees over the past ten years; Jolie and the SHS founder and 290 staff of SHS received the prestigious Nansen Refugee Award for their live-saving work helping tens of thousands of desperate boat people on the coast of Yemen from the Horn of Africa.
As she was speaking, news from Mogadishu, Somali's capital, reported that dozens were killed in a suicide bomb blast at a government ministry.
The Hollywood actress spoke about the heroism of the SHS staff who "often risk their own lives, pulling people from the waves and the rough seas and working in extremely volatile security conditions."
Angelina Jolie was recognized for completing 10 years as UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, and the founder and 290 staff of SHS received the prestigious Nansen Refugee Award for their live-saving work helping tens of thousands of desperate boat people arriving on the coast of Yemen from the Horn of Africa.
The Nansen Refugee Award was created in 1954 in honour of Fridtjof Nansen, who became the first international High Commissioner for Refugees in the 1920s and was also a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat and politician.
Jolie, was presented with a gold pin by the UN agency for her important work as the UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador over the past decade where she has visited almost 30 countries for refugees often living in dire circumstances, including Afghanistan, Italy, Tunisia, Turkey, Malta in this year alone.
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[1Ascoltare]

Sorry telling you to take care of your own kids makes you mad.

[ALANLEEY]

@1Ascoltare would you spit shine my shoes

[1Ascoltare]

Angelina, you idiot, if you bring these peopel to europe, the same thing will happen there.

Do this you bubble-head, tell the fathers to take care of their children.

It's not racist to do that.