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Academy Award winning actress Angelina Jolie, often billed as the ‘most beautiful woman on the planet’, is doing some amazing work as a special envoy for the United Nations’s body for the refugees, the UNHCR.
The ravishing actress, who has covered some of the most troubled regions in the world with a message of compassion, is currently on a humanitarian mission in Lebanon to meet with Syrian refugees.
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UNHCR's special envoy actress Angelina Jolie smiles as she meets with Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, on Monday
Jolie is on a humanitarian mission to Lebanon to meet Syrian refugees.
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Angelina Jolie arrives at the Jalozai flood victim relief camp during her visit to flood affected areas and relief camps supported by the UNHCR, in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, in September 2010.
Jolie had called on for constant and long-term assistance for Pakistan to help it cope with its worst ever floods that wreaked havoc in 2010.
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UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie chats with children in the Dadaab refugee camp on the Kenya-Somali border in September, 2009.
Jolie undertook a day-long visit to the camp to highlight the forgotten plight of the refugees from Somalia and to appeal for solutions for the overcrowding.
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Angelina Jolie meets with Khanum Gul, a mother of eight and her youngest son, Samir at their makeshift home at Tamil Mill Bus site in war-torn Kabul in March, 2011.
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Angelina Jolie speaks during a news conference with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres and Jordan's Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh (not pictured) at Al Zaatri refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, in September, 2012.
The refugee camp is hosting Syrian refugees displaced by the conflict.
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Angelina Jolie visits the Green Zone in Baghdad in February, 2008. The Hollywood star and humanitarian activist had appealed for more international help for the millions of Iraqis displaced internally and abroad, UN officials said.
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UN goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie visits a group of displaced children at a camp in eastern town of Bunia in Democratic Republic of Congo in September, 2003.
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Angelina Jolie climbs aboard a bus during her visit to the Kacha Gari refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan in May, 2005. The bus was carry Afghan refugees back to Afghanistan.
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Angelina Jolie visits Shousha Camp at Ras Djir, 8 kilometres from the Tunis-Libyan border, in April, 2011. Jolie appealed for international support for people fleeing the conflict in Libya and for increased aid for those inside Tunisia.
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Angelina Jolie speaks with Chechen refugee women at the Bella refugee camp in Ingushetia, near the border with Chechnya, in August, 2003.
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Angelina Jolie visits Somali refugees at Shousha Camp at Ras Djir, 8 kilometres from the Tunis-Libyan border, in April, 2011. UNHCR established its presence in Tunisia's southern village of Ras Djir on February 24, 2011, to respond to the mass influx of people crossing into Tunisia to escape the violence in Libya.
According to the Tunisian authorities, more than 200,000 people fled Libya to Tunisia since 20 February with more than 150,000 being third-country nationals. While most of the arrivals were from Egypt, more than twenty-five others nationalities have been seen at the border, including a large number of Bangladeshis, Egyptians, Somalis and Sudanese. The majority of arrivals were migrant workers who were employed in Libya before the violence split the country.
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Angelina Jolie is greeted by village elders upon arrival in Qala Gudar village, Qarabagh district, some 28 km outside Kabul in March, 2011.
According to the agency, the actress visited the site where she funded a new girls primary school.
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Angelina Jolie is seen with Karenni refugee children in Thailand's Mae Hong Son Province, near the Thai-Myanmar border, in February, 2009.
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Angelina Jolie speaks with Nourelhuda, the daughter of Ibtisam and Mazin, who are Iraqi refugees living in Jaramana, at a suburb in southern Damascus, Syria, in October, 2009.
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Angelina Jolie meets with wounded U.S. Service members preparing to travel back to the U.S. during a visit to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, in May, 2011.
Jolie took time to meet with the Service members as a part of her USO tour.
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Angelina Jolie distributes balls to the children at the Tham Hin refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border in May, 2002.
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Angelina Jolie speaks during an annual meeting of UNHCR's governing executive committee in Geneva on October 4, 2011.
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