UN Envoy Angelina Jolie Calls For ‘Compassion And Solidarity’ For The People Of Yemen

etcanada.com:

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie arrived on Sunday to war-wrecked Yemen to show solidarity with displaced families in hopes of mobilizing support for an incoming fundraising conference, the United Nations said.

Jolie, who is special envoy for the U.N. on refugee issues, landed in the southern coastal city of Aden to meet with families and refugees there.

Aden is the seat of the internationally recognized government. The U.N. refugee agency said it hopes that Jolie’s visit would draw attention to growing humanitarian needs in Yemen, the Arab World’s poorest country, ahead of the annual High Level Pledging Conference for Yemen on March 16. “As we continue to watch the horrors unfolding in Ukraine and call for an immediate end to the conflict and humanitarian access, I am here in Yemen to support people who also desperately need peace.

The situation here is one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world,” Jolie said in a post on her Instagram account. In a special statement on International Women’s Day, Jolie called for “compassion and solidarity” with the people of Yemen. “The level of human suffering here is unimaginable.