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Maeve Murphy, the UN Refugee Agency Community Services Officer serving in Darfur, Sudan shares the most difficult and rewarding aspects of her job.
UN Refugee Agency Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has called on business and political leaders meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos to use their influence to keep refugee issues at the top of the international agenda. The Oscar-winning actress was speaking at Davos earlier this year in support of the UN Refugee Agency’s Acting High Commissioner,Wendy Chamberlin, who was announcing the formation of a Council of Business Leaders.This initiative is intended to boost our efforts to address the plight of innocent people forced to flee their homes.
‘If there’s been one positive thing to come out of the immense tragedy of the tsunami, it is the amazing response by people and organizations across the world,’ said Ms Jolie, who has worked for refugees over the past four years in Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe.
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Angelina, Davos & Council of Business Leaders Samuel A. Di Piazza Jr., Global Chief Executive Officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers; Sadako Ogata, President of Japan International Cooperation Agency; Wendy Chamberlin, UNHCR Acting High Commissioner; and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie at the World Economic Forum in Davos. © UNHCR/J.Gubler |
‘Everyone was horrified, and so many have tried to do their bit to help out,’ she added. ‘What we need now is for this momentum, and this generosity, to be translated into a sustained effort to help solve some of the world’s other neglected crises, like the desperate situation in Chad and Sudan.’ The Council of Business Leaders consists of top executives from five major corporations that are working together with the agency to improve opportunities for refugees – Merck & Co, Inc., Microsoft, Nestlé, Nike and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Between them, the companies have already helped with refugee registration systems, supported skills development activities, water projects and girls’ education in countries including Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia.
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TOP: Angelina Jolie looks at an Afghan refugee making bricks at a bricks kiln in the outskirts of Islamabad May 6, 2005. Jolie asked for increased international help to repatriate more than 3 million Afghans living in Pakistan.
