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Angelina Jolie Opens Girls School In Afghanistan   Apr 2, 2013

  • Angelina Jolie's charity work and causes
  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters

Angelina Jolie has opened a girls-only school in Afghanistan, according to a report from E! News.

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Angelina Jolie Visits Displaced Women In Democratic Republic Of Congo   Mar 26, 2013

  • Angelina Jolie's charity work and causes
  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters

British Foreign Secretary William Hague and actress Angelina Jolie this week visited a displacement camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where the International Rescue Committee is working to prevent violence against women and girls.

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Prince Charles Visits Refugee Camp In Jordan   Mar 14, 2013

  • Duchess of Cornwall's charity work and causes
  • UNICEF's celebrity supporters
  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters
  • World Food Programme's celebrity supporters
  • Prince Charles's charity work and causes

In the week marking two years since the crisis in Syria began, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall visited a refugee camp in Jordan and met families who have fled the fighting.

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WWE Divas To Visit Refugee Camps In Rwanda   Mar 1, 2013

  • Alicia Fox's charity work and causes
  • United Nations Foundation's celebrity supporters
  • Nothing But Nets's celebrity supporters
  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters

WWE Divas Alicia Fox and Natalya will visit refugee camps in Rwanda this week as part of their alliance with the United Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign to help raise awareness and funds to fight malaria in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Lady Antebellum To Play Charity Ping Pong   Feb 14, 2013

  • Lady Antebellum's charity work and causes
  • Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt's celebrity supporters
  • St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's celebrity supporters
  • Children's Miracle Network Hospitals's celebrity supporters
  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters

Lady Antebellum will front up for a special charity ping pong tournament next month.

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Angelina Jolie Visits Refugees On Syria-Jordan Border   Dec 9, 2012

  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters
  • Angelina Jolie's charity work and causes
  • Brad Pitt's charity work and causes

UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie travelled to the Jordan-Syria border overnight on Wednesday-Thursday to meet frightened and exhausted Syrian refugees who had just completed the perilous crossing to safety in Jordan.

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Lady Antebellum Launches LadyAID To Help Children In Need   Dec 5, 2012

  • Lady Antebellum's charity work and causes
  • Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt's celebrity supporters
  • St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's celebrity supporters
  • Children's Miracle Network Hospitals's celebrity supporters
  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters

GRAMMY winning trio Lady Antebellum announced this week their new charitable initiative called LadyAID, a philanthropic effort created to bring awareness to and generate support for children in need locally, nationally and globally.

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Photos Follow Angelina Jolie's Visits To Syrian Refugees   Oct 9, 2012

  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters
  • Angelina Jolie's charity work and causes

In her new role as UNHCR Special Envoy, Angelina Jolie has made five trips to visit refugees so far this year. She travelled to Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey in September 2012 to meet some of the tens of thousands of Syrians who have fled conflict in their homeland and sought shelter in neighboring countries.

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Barbara Hendricks Performs At UNHCR Nansen Awards   Oct 3, 2012

  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters
  • Barbara Hendricks's charity work and causes

UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres on Monday night presented the Nansen Refugee Award to Somali humanitarian, educator and women’s rights advocate Hawa Aden Mohamed.

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Angelina Jolie Visits Syrian Refugees In Iraq   Sep 17, 2012

  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters
  • Angelina Jolie's charity work and causes

UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie has hailed the Iraqi government’s willingness to host Syrian refugees fleeing violence and said she hoped all Syrians seeking asylum in Iraq would be welcomed.

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Angelina Jolie Visits Syrian Refugees In Turkey   Sep 13, 2012

  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters
  • Angelina Jolie's charity work and causes

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) António Guterres and his Special Envoy Angelina Jolie were in Turkey today, continuing their mission to visit Syrian refugees.

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Angelina Jolie Visits Syrian Refugees In Lebanon   Sep 12, 2012

  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters
  • Angelina Jolie's charity work and causes

UNHCR chief António Guterres and Special Envoy Angelina Jolie have spent a second day visiting Syrian refugees who have escaped the violence in their country.

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Angelina Jolie Meets Syrian Refugees In Jordan   Sep 11, 2012

  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters
  • Angelina Jolie's charity work and causes

UNHCR chief António Guterres and Special Envoy Angelina Jolie have heard harrowing tales of suffering and cross-border escape during meetings with Syrian refugees in northern Jordan.

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eBay Founder Donates $500,000 To Refugee Support In South Sudan   Sep 5, 2012

  • Pierre Omidyar's charity work and causes
  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters
  • The Elders's celebrity supporters
  • Desmond Tutu's charity work and causes
  • Mary Robinson's charity work and causes

eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam have donated US$500,000 to UNHCR’s emergency operation for tens of thousands of refugees in South Sudan.

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Annie Lennox To Perform At UNHCR Nansen Refugee Awards   Sep 4, 2012

  • Annie Lennox's charity work and causes
  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters
  • Barbara Hendricks's charity work and causes
  • Luciano Pavarotti's charity work and causes

British singer/songwriter, campaigner and activist, Annie Lennox, OBE, will perform at this year’s Nansen Refugee Award ceremony in Geneva on October 1, the UNHCR announced on Monday.

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Angelina Jolie's World Humanitarian Day Message   Aug 20, 2012

  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters
  • Angelina Jolie's charity work and causes
  • Beyoncé Knowles's charity work and causes

UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie has written a special message on the organization’s Facebook page to mark World Humanitarian Day.

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Barbara Hendricks Visits Refugees In Burkina Faso   Jul 11, 2012

  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters
  • Barbara Hendricks's charity work and causes

UNHCR’s only lifetime goodwill ambassador, soprano Barbara Hendricks, has visited a camp in northern Burkina Faso to raise awareness about the plight of tens of thousands of Malian refugees in Africa’s Sahel region and to help raise funds for UNHCR’s relief operations there.

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The Elders Visit Sudanese Refugees   Jul 10, 2012

  • Desmond Tutu's charity work and causes
  • Mary Robinson's charity work and causes
  • The Elders's celebrity supporters
  • Richard Branson's charity work and causes
  • Peter Gabriel's charity work and causes
  • Nelson Mandela's charity work and causes
  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters

Nobel Peace Prize laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Martti Ahtisaari, a former Finnish president, visited Sudanese refugees this weekend in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state along with Mary Robinson, a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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Angelina Jolie Donates $100,000 On World Refugee Day   Jun 20, 2012

  • Angelina Jolie's charity work and causes
  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters

Angelina Jolie has made a donation of US$100,000 on World Refugee Day to the UNHCR for their work in helping Syrian refugees.

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Angelina Jolie Leads Celebrity PSAs For World Refugee Day   Jun 14, 2012

  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters
  • Angelina Jolie's charity work and causes
  • Barbara Hendricks's charity work and causes
  • Juanes's charity work and causes

In the past 18 months, the UNHCR has faced one of the busiest periods of its history, with crisis after crisis keeping the agency at full stretch, but over the next week staff across the globe will take time to commemorate World Refugee Day and the millions they help.

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Angelina Jolie Meets Refugees In Ecuador   Apr 23, 2012

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  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters

Angelina Jolie made her third trip to Ecuador to meet Colombian refugees this week, and urged the government to maintain its open asylum policy.

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Angelina Jolie Named As UNHCR Special Envoy   Apr 17, 2012

  • Angelina Jolie's charity work and causes
  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters

The UN refugee agency announced on Tuesday that actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie will take on a new and expanded role for UNHCR as Special Envoy of High Commissioner António Guterres.

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Malaria Takes Center Court To Save Lives In South Sudan   Mar 29, 2012

  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters
  • United Nations Foundation's celebrity supporters
  • Nothing But Nets's celebrity supporters
  • Stephen Curry's charity work and causes
  • Ruth Riley's charity work and causes

Since last June, more than 130,000 refugees—and counting—have entered South Sudan and neighboring countries to escape fighting on the border of Sudan. As the situation worsens, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is providing food, water, and shelter. Living in a country where malaria is the leading cause of death among children under five, the refugee families in South Sudan need another life-saving tool: insecticide-treated bed nets.

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Celebrities And Companies Help In Horn Of Africa   Feb 1, 2012

  • Jonah Hill's charity work and causes
  • United Nations Foundation's celebrity supporters
  • Nothing But Nets's celebrity supporters
  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters

In less than three months, thousands of Americans have donated to send 150,000 anti-malaria bed nets in response to the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa.

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Angelina Jolie Inspires New Home For Bosnian Refugees   Nov 6, 2011

  • Angelina Jolie's charity work and causes
  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters

Thirteen Bosnian refugees moved into a new US-financed apartment building named after Angelina Jolie last week.

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Angelina Jolie Visits Aid Agencies In Libya   Oct 11, 2011

  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters
  • Angelina Jolie's charity work and causes

UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie was in Libya on a personal mission this week to bring awareness to the agencies bringing aid to the country.

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Angelina Jolie: Hundreds Of Thousands Of Refugees Depend On You   Oct 5, 2011

  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters
  • Angelina Jolie's charity work and causes

UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie on Tuesday urged the international community to scale up its efforts to deal with the crisis in the Horn of Africa, saying the lives of hundreds of thousands of refugees depended on it.

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Angelina Jolie Honored By UNHCR For Refugee Work   Oct 4, 2011

  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters
  • Angelina Jolie's charity work and causes
  • Martin Bell's charity work and causes
  • Luciano Pavarotti's charity work and causes

The UNHCR paid lavish tribute on Monday night to award-winning American actress Angelina Jolie and Yemeni humanitarian aid group Society for Humanitarian Solidarity (SHS) for their outstanding work for refugees over many years.

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Alexander McCall Smith Brings Literature To Young Refugees   Jul 8, 2011

  • Alexander McCall Smith's charity work and causes
  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters

Acclaimed author Alexander McCall Smith has discussed his contribution towards a project to bring the joys of literature to young refugees with the help of UNHCR.

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Angelina Jolie Spends Busy Weekend With Refugees   Jun 20, 2011

  • Angelina Jolie's charity work and causes
  • UNHCR's celebrity supporters

Angelina Jolie had a busy weekend with the UNHCR, traveling to Turkey to meet Syrian refugees on Friday, and meeting boat people on a tiny Italian island on Sunday.

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