Angelina Jolie Watch

Well we finally know where Angelina and Maddox were headed a few days ago-well Angelina least. (There are rumors that she and Maddox will also attend a children’’s conference in Jordan and I doubt she took Maddox to Iraq.)

Angelina is visited and Iraqi refugee settlement where “20,000 Iraqis live, unable to return to their homes because of sectarian violence.”

This Angelina’s third visit to the war torn region. One she made while pregnant with twins.

Angelina visited the region because support waning for the refugees in the area.

“It is the most critical time,” Jolie told CNN. “I think this will make the difference in the future of Iraq and in the future of a country that is so crucial to our world and our security and this region in the world. It is in the hands of the government to now really step up.”

“It’s for all of us not to feel like ‘Oh, let’s move on.’ There are so many other things that are grabbing our headlines,” she added. “This region of the world, the stability of this region is important to all of us,” she said.

“There are still three million people displaced, innocent families,” Angelina said. “We have still many young men and women from our country who are fighting every day, there are men and women from all countries who have lost their lives, and this is a time to try to make some positive change.”

“The UNHCR has been doing everything it can,” she said. “It’s been building houses. It’s having funding issues. It’s only half-funded this year. It takes six months to be able to build a house.

“So they’re not going to get enough money to be able to build all the houses that they want to build, to be able to facilitate anybody that does want to come home. They’ll be able to do something, but not as much as they could if they were given all the support.”

UNHCR estimates that 1.6 million Iraqis were internally displaced by a wave of sectarian warfare that erupted in February 2006 after the bombing of a mosque in the ancient city of Samarra. Almost 300,000 have returned to their homes amid a general improvement in the security situation since mid-2008.

Since April last year, UNHCR has provided emergency shelter rehabilitation and shelter upgrade to 5,000 families. Close to 20,000 homes will be rehabilitated by the end of this year. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees remain in neighbouring countries, mainly Syria and Jordan.

You can donate to the UNHCR HERE.

Source : CNN
Source: UNHCR