Angelina Jolie Exposes Daughter Shiloh To Refugee Camps

Angelina Jolie is making sure the whole family is on board with her when it comes to fighting for ideal world causes. She and her daughter Shiloh Jolie-Pitt made a trip to Turkey in honour of World Refugee Day.

E Online reported that June 20, the “Maleficent” actress took daughter Shiloh Jolie-Pitt to visit a Syrian and Iraqi refugee camp in Midyat, Turkey. The 9-year-old eagerly accompanied her mom, who is currently serving a special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. While on Turkey, Jolie met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and discussed the the “refugee crisis,” which Jolie said is now at an extent that it could be called a “crisis of global security and governance” instead.

On a press release from the UNHCR covering the meeting, Jolie is said to have stated that even though the world is significantly richer and healthier than ever, the number of refugees is staggering. This is a problem because refugees signify people who lost their basic human rights. "We should call this what it is: not just a 'refugee crisis,' but a crisis of global security and governance, that is manifesting itself in the worst refugee crisis ever recorded -- and a time of mass displacement," Jolie said.

The mother-daughter duo also met with UNHCR High Commissioner Antonio Guterres on the said Turkey visit. Pitt claimed that this is a “central problem.” She added that the world cannot focus on certain human rights violations to resolve while tolerating other types of violations. "We cannot pick and choose which human rights violations we will and won't tolerate," the actress said while at the Midyat camp.

Prior to this Turkey visit, she took Shiloh to Lebanon to play with a 12-year-old Syrian girl named Hala. She told People magazine Shiloh had been interested in her work for the UN for years now and had been asking about the refugee families she had been working with. She said Shiloh learned of Hala since her last visit to Lebanon and wanted to meet the kid and her siblings ever since. Jolie confimed that most refugees are children and she is happy that her daughter is willing to befriend and play with many refugee kids who said they lost their friends as they lost their homes.

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