Hollywood star and UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie has expressed her concerns for the children of Ukraine, saying that without an end to the war children will pay the highest price.
The Maleficent actor turned to Instagram and shared gripping photos of children in Ukraine, writing that the war will result in trauma, lost childhoods and shattered lives. She said, “As well as the millions who’ve fled over Ukraine’s borders, nearly 2 million people are displaced inside their country, many trapped by fighting, denied access to aid, and indirect physical danger.”
“Without an end to the war children will pay the highest price – in trauma, lost childhoods, and shattered lives,” Jolie further said.
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In her Insta stories, the filmmaker said, “3 million refugees have fled Ukraine in 15 days. It’s the fastest-growing displacement crisis in Europe since World War 2 and a measure of the conflict’s brutality.”
Angelina Jolie made a tearful speech of support to renew a long-lapsed law to strengthen domestic violence protections. She visited Capitol Hill to help a bipartisan group of senators roll out a new version of the Violence Against Women Act.
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Jolie, who brought daughter Zahara along with her to Washington, got emotional when addressing a packed press conference and shamed Congress ‘silence’ on the matter as they’ve not reauthorised the bill in nearly a decade.
“Most of all, I want to acknowledge – most of all, I want to acknowledge the children who are terrified and suffering at this moment,’ she said, her voice cracking. ‘And the many people for whom this legislation comes too late,” she said.
