Angelina Jolie is speaking out about the refugee crisis in a powerful new piece for Time. Jolie, special envoy of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, referenced the U.N.
Refugee Agency’s latest annual report, stating, “Nearly 80 million people — the highest number since records began, according to available data — have been forced from their homes by extreme persecution and violence, and are living as refugees, asylum seekers or people displaced within their own countries.” Jolie writes, “These are people fleeing attacks on schools and hospitals, mass sexual violence, the siege and starvation of whole cities, the murderous oppression of terrorist groups, and decades of institutionalized persecution based on religion, gender or
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