'The international community is failing': Angelina Jolie meets ISIS victims at refugee camp in northern Iraq and calls on leaders to end violence in the region
The actress made the comments in her role as special envoy of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, while visiting a Kurdish refugee camp in Dohuk, northern Iraq, earlier today.
The camp is currently home to tens of thousands of Yazidis and other refugees who have been forced to abandon their homes in Mosul, which has been invaded by the Islamic State.
More than a million refugees are now living in the region as a result of the Syrian civil war and ISIS overtaking large swathes of Iraq.
Angelina, 39, met with families living in makeshift homes, took a tour of the nearby area and gave a speech to the hundreds of refugees and politicians who had gathered to catch a glimpse of the star.
The Hollywood star spent her first day in Iraq visiting with Yazidi refugees and touring their camp. Among the ISIS victims she met were a group of elderly women who were among nearly 200 Yazidis recently released by insurgents.
She has visited the Middle East several times as part of her job at the UN and has visited the Kurdistan region of Iraq in 2012, when she visited another refugee camp in Erbil.
She has also been a regular visitor to war-torn parts of Africa as part of her campaign with former British Foreign Secretary William Hague to bring an end to rape being used as a tool of war.
Today, she appealed to anyone listening to work together to end the suffering, so that people can return to their homes in Iraq and Syria.
