UNO: After more than two decades together, Angelina Jolie and the UN agency for refugees are no longer working together. The American actor and the organization said in a joint statement on Friday that she was "stepping on" from her position as the organisation's special envoy "to engage on a broader set of humanitarian and human rights issues".

In the statement, Jolie was quoted as saying, "I will continue to do everything in my power in the years to come to support refugees and other displaced people." He also said he felt it was time to "do things differently" by talking directly with refugee and neighborhood organizations.

Jolie joined the United Nations agency for refugees in 2001 and was named its special envoy in 2012. release.

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Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, was quoted as saying, "After a long and successful time with the UNHCR, I appreciate their willingness to relocate and support their decision.

   "I am confident she will bring the same passion and focus to a broad humanitarian portfolio, and I know the refugee cause will remain close to her heart."

Jolie signaled her dissatisfaction with the lack of global progress in ending sexual violence in conflict in an opinion piece published in The Guardian last month.

"We meet to talk about these atrocities and decide they should never happen again. We pledge to demarcate that line and to uphold it. But when it comes to fulfilling these commitments When it comes to making difficult decisions, we face the same issues over and over again." ,” she wrote, reprimanding members of the United Nations Security Council for “abusing their veto power.”

In a 2017 speech in Geneva, Jolie called the United Nations "incomplete", but she also defended it, arguing that it needed to be supported.

Later, it pushed the United Nations to establish a permanent, impartial and investigative body to collect and assess data on alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity and other human rights abuses.

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After her children, advancing women's equality, fighting injustice and helping refugees were the most important aspects of her life, promoting that initiative at the United Nations Headquarters in 2019.

However, they often go hand in hand, she added. Jolie has been active in other advocacy campaigns, most recently urging the renewal of America's Violence Against Women Act.

Jolie began visiting refugee camps in 2001, the same year she was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. At that time, the High Commissioner expressed the 26-year-old actress' desire to draw attention to the plight of refugees.

In Burkina Faso last year, Jolie told The Associated Press that she was concerned that an increase in global displacement would lead to further instability and that governments needed to act to address the underlying conflicts that were causing the problem. .

It appears that governments have abandoned diplomacy to a greater extent than when I started working with UNHCR 20 years ago. "The least countries are doing the most to support refugees,"

Developing countries are home to more than 80 percent of the world's refugees, according to the UNHCR, which also reported in May that the number of internally displaced people had surpassed 100 million for the first time.

In an August interview with the AP, Grandi praised the European Union's efforts to aid Ukrainian refugees and encouraged world leaders to take note of other humanitarian crises for which her organization was raising funds.

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The main issue we are currently facing, according to Grandy, is that it has a tendency to overshadow all other human suffering crises.
On its website, UNHCR lists various categories of "key supporters", including goodwill ambassadors such as Pakistani actress Mahira Khan, British author Neil Gaiman and Australian actor Cate Blanchett.

A spokeswoman for the UNHCR declined to provide further details in response to a request for additional comment, except that the organization "has no intention of appointing anyone else to the role of Special Envoy."