After visiting a camp for Syrian refugees in southeastern Turkey on Saturday, actress Angelina Jolie said the world is living through an era of mass displacement.
Jolie, who serves as a United Nations special envoy for refugees, was speaking at a news conference in southeastern Turkey, home to Syrians and Iraqis displaced by war, on World Refugee Day.
'Never before have so many people been dispossessed or stripped of their human rights,' Jolie said.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Special Envoy Angelina Jolie said on Saturday - World Refugee Day - that the world is living through an era of mass displacement
As Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Angelina Jolie's role is to bring attention to the plight of refugees
Angelina Jolie (right) and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres (left) attended a press conference in Mardin, Turkey, on Saturday in which they discussed the current state of refugees
On Saturday Jolie visited a refugee camp in southeastern Turkey that hosts victims of the crisis in Syria
Jolie visits Midyat refugee camp in Mardin, southeastern Turkey, near the Syrian border on Saturday
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said in a report last week that there were now more refugees than at any other time in history, with 59.5million people displaced from their homes worldwide.
'There is an explosion of human suffering and displacement on a level that has never been seen before,' Jolie said, warning that Syrians and Iraqis were running out of safe havens as neighbouring states reached the limit of their capacity.
'It is hard to point to a single instance where, as an international community, we are decisively addressing the root causes of refugee flows,' she said.
Jolie's visit is the latest in a series of visits to Turkey as part of her work as the UNHCR's special envoy to bring attention to the plight of refugees.
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