We can not manage the world through aid relief in the place of diplomacy and political solutions.
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Braving the pouring rain and winds at a press conference in Bekaa Valley, the brunette beauty sat down to give a passionate speech, imploring others to increase their support.
“The greatest pressure is still being felt in the Middle East and North Africa”, Jolie said. She lies in one room, where she lives with her whole family, in a small, cold, makeshift settlement here in the Bekaa Valley.
“Syria is the biggest humanitarian and refugee crisis of our time”, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said in a statement, “[It is] a continuing cause of suffering for millions, which should be garnering a groundswell of support around the world”.
“When I saw her lovely smile, and her dedicated husband and children looking after her, I was in awe of them”, she continued.
Accordingly Angelina, a mother-of-six, has called on world leaders to adhere to their worldwide obligations to aid refugees. She said it’s “tragic and shameful that we seem to be so far from that point”.
According to the UNHCR, Lebanon hosts more than 1.1 million Syrians who fled their war-torn country since the beginning of the uprising against the regime of President Bashar Assad in March 2011. They are heroes to me. And that I ask myself, ‘ to when such heirs are created to feel just like beggars What’ve we come?’ We develop a safer global atmosphere and are able to do the best thing.
“They have to (…) meet the fears of their citizens not based not on emotion but on a proper assessment of what can be done to share responsibilities and resolve the situation”, she added. So many refugees are children.
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The vast majority of Syrian refugees in Lebanon live in extreme poverty, the United Nations says. Counting people forcibly displaced within their home countries, that figure balloons to a staggering 60 million. March 15 marks the 5th anniversary of peaceful protests against Assad, leading to the devastating civil conflict in the country.
