United Nations marks World Refugee Day on Saturday, Hollywood actor and
director Angelina Jolie is lending her support by visiting a refugee
camp in Turkey.
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Angelina Jolie, has appeared in a promotional video to mark World Refugee Day .
She will be accompanied Saturday by U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees
Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Guterres warned that "a spreading global
violence has come to threaten the very foundations of our international
system" and urged the world not to turn its back on those who most need
its help.
"More people fled last year than at any other
time in our records. Around the world, almost 60 million have been displaced by
conflict and persecution. Nearly 20 million of them are refugees, and more than
half are children," he said.
United Nations says the figures of refugees worldwide is a true reflection of a world in chaos.
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