JORDAN / ANGELINA JOLIE VISIT

The United Nations Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) Special Envoy Angelina Jolie called on world leaders gathering in New York later this month to put the “root causes of the Syrian conflict and what it will take to end it” at the centre of their discussions. UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:00:56
• Production Date: 9 September 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: ANGELINA JOLIE
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: REFUGEES; SYRIA SITUATION
• Geographic Subject: JORDAN; SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 1704372
• Parent Id: 1704372
• Alternate Title: unifeed160909f

Description

STORY: JORDAN / ANGELINA JOLIE VISIT
TRT: 00:56
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: 09 SEPTEMBER 2016, AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP, JORDAN

Shotlist

09 SEPTEMBER 2016, AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP, JORDAN

1. Wide shot, Azraq refugee camp
2. Med shot, Jolie hugging woman
3. Close up, child speaking with Jolie
4. Med shot, Jolie and child
5. Tracking, Jolie walking to child’s bedside in hospital
6. Wide shot, Jolie by infant’s bedside
7. Wide shot, Jolie meeting with children
8. Med shot, Jolie speaking with family

Storyline

The United Nations Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) Special Envoy Angelina Jolie called on world leaders gathering in New York later this month to put the “root causes of the Syrian conflict and what it will take to end it” at the centre of their discussions.

During a visit to the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan today (9 Sep), Jolie said none of the camp’s 60,000 residents had not suffered loss and trauma, yet they still count themselves “among the lucky ones.” Jolie said the 75,000 Syrians stranded in the no-man’s land on the Jordanian border known as the Berm had no access to humanitarian assistance and “None of the basic protections under international humanitarian law are being applied” to them. Jolie said the the world has known about the situation in the Berm for months, but no solutions had been put forward.

Jolie said any increase in humanitarian funding was deeply appreciated and absolutely necessary, but refugees wanted to know “when they will be able to go home.”