Angelina Jolie Honored by the International Rescue Committee
The IRC honored the UNHCR and it’s Goodwill Ambassadors with its 50th annual Freedom Award for their work on behalf of the world’s refugees. Angelina and the United Nations High Commissioner(Antonio Guterres) accepted the award for the UNHCR team. Angelina was unable to attend due to her shooting schedule but she did send a video message where she applauded the strong partnership between the UNHCR and the IRC.
Former Freedom Award recipients include include Winston Churchill (1958), former US presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton (200), Madeline Albright(1998) and Burmese Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (1995).
In 2006, the IRC assisted more than 15 million conflict-affected people around the world. Here’s a look at some of their recent achievements.
- Gave over 3 million people access to clean water and sanitation.
- Trained more than 10,800 educators, and supported schools attended by 316,000 children, more than half of them girls.
- Their doctors,nurses and community health workers served more than 6 million people with primary and reproductive health care.
- Reached some 5 million people through our health education and HIV/AIDS prevention programs.
- Counseled and cared for nearly 140,000 survivors of sexual violence.
- Educated some 1,560,000 men,women and adolescents on the prevention of sexual violence.
- Reunited over 2,400 separated children and former child soldiers with their families and cared for another 9,300 young people.
- Resettled 5,000 newly arrived refugees and asylees and provided services to 18,000 other refugees in the United States.
- The IRC helped over 6,400 refugees settle into new homes, schools and communities in the United States.
Congratulations to Angie and the rest of the UNHCR team. Keep up the good work.
angelina jolie, unhcr, united nations, united nations high commissioner for refugees, irc, international rescue committee
November 11th, 2007 at 5:15 am
I THINK SHE REALLY DESERVE AND SHOULD BE HONORED FOR THIS YEAR 50TH ANNUAL FREEDOM AWARD BECAUSE OF HER DEDICATION TO HER WORK AND HELPING THOSE REFUGEES. i rally admire her as a humanitarian.
December 7th, 2007 at 3:33 am
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