I’m a bad Brangeloonie, because I completely forgot that World Refugee Day was coming up. It’s June 20th, every year. And every year since she became a goodwill ambassador for the UNHCR (the United Nations High Commission on Refugees) in 2001, Angelina Jolie has done some sort of activity or event to note World Refugee Day. The past few years, she’s been filming PSAs (in addition to doing press and attending events) – you can see 2009’s Jolie PSA here. And if you go here, you can see her 2010 PSA for Pakistani Relief. Anyway, here’s her 2011 World Refugee Day PSA:
Not bad. CB usually refuses to watch them because they make her cry, but I convinced her that she needed to see Angelina’s styling for this one, which is much improved. Some of these PSAs, it’s like Jolie is being recorded in someone’s dank basement. They actually prettied her up for this one.
As for the content… “Every day, thousands of people run from war, persecution and terror… Even one is too many. One family forced to flee is too many, one child growing up in a camp is too many, one refugee without hope is too many.” It’s noble, and the repetition of “one” is because this is for a new UNHCR initiative for the One campaign.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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