Angelina Jolie in Jordan to visit Syrian refugees
U.N. Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie presents the 2011 Nansen Refugee Award at a ceremony on Oct. 3, 2011, in Geneva. / JASON TANNER/AFP/Getty Images
(CBS/AP) AMMAN, Jordan - The U.N. refugee agency says its special envoy, actress Angelina Jolie, is in Jordan to visit Syrians who fled the civil war in their country.
UNHCR spokesman Ali Bebe says the Hollywood star arrived Monday and is to visit Jordan's first tent city for Syrian refugees on Tuesday morning.
Jolie will be accompanied by U.N. refugee chief Antonio Guterres and Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh on the visit to the Zatari camp, which hosts about 27,000 Syrians displaced by the 18-month conflict.
Angelina Jolie on two-day visit to Libya
Angelina Jolie visits Syria refugees in Turkey
More carnage in Syria amid pleas for peace
Watch: Syria refugees want Assad to suffer
Jordan has sheltered more than 185,000 Syrian refugees - the largest number in the region.
Actress and U.N. goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie meets locals in Misrata, Libya Tuesday Oct. 11, 2011.
/ AP Photo/Jason Tanner/hoThe UNHCR in April promoted Jolie from serving as its goodwill ambassador to special envoy due to her work for the agency. Jolie has contributed $5 million to U.N. efforts aiding refugees worldwide.
The movie star met with Syrian refugees in Turkey last year in June. She was greeted with a 45-foot banner near the entrance of a refugee camp that read: "Goodness Angel of the World, Welcome" in English and Turkish.
Popular on CBSNews.com
- N. Korea sends top envoy to China as tensions mount
- 12 years post-Taliban, Afghan women's rights under fire
- Visitors evacuate after suicide at Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral
- Costa Concordia captain ordered to stand trial
- Octogenarians in race to summit Mt. Everest
- Boat hijack stokes tension between N. Korea, China
- Egypt TV: 7 security personnel kidnapped in Sinai freed
- Egypt troops in Sinai sweep mistakenly hit funeral
4 Comments Add a Comment
- linkicon reporticon emailicon
- Just wait until a bunch of Muslim refuge men jump her in the street and pull her panties down, that'll change her mind about being a "U.N. envoy" real quick!
- reply
- linkicon reporticon emailicon
- Just wait until a bunch of Muslim refuge men jump her in the street and pull her panties down, that'll change her mind about being a "U.N. envoy" real quick!
- reply
- linkicon reporticon emailicon
- Wow... Hateful comments about someome that actually cares about others. Why dont you hateful things go out and do something nice for a change. Who knows, you may actually feel better.
- reply
- linkicon reporticon emailicon
- And I bet that all of the refugees will sleep so much better tonight knowing that she was there!
- reply
