UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie Condemns ISIS Extremism; Criticizes International Response – 'Step Up And Do More'

On Jan. 25, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie visited Iraq.

While, most Hollywood stars are busy preparing for the 2015 SAGA, Brad Pitt's wife was talking to the victims of ISIS who are forced to leave their homes and stay in refugee camps.

The 39-year-old mother of six visited Khanke Camp for Internally Displaced People, where she met the crowd of tens of thousands of families and gave a speech to the press.

The UNHR Goodwill Ambassador delivered a strong message to ISIS extremists, condemning them of their inhumane actions that continually causing hundreds if not thousands of deaths in Iraq and Syria.

On the other hand, she also urged world leaders to do better and "step up."

"Since I was last here in Iraq, another two million people have been forced from their homes. Mostly in the last six months - this time Iraqi citizens.

Too many innocent people are paying the price of the conflict in Syria and spread of extremism. The international community has to step up and do more.

It is not enough to defend our values at home. We have to defend them here, in the camps and in the informal settlements across the Middle East, and in the ruined towns of Iraq and Syria. We are being tested here, as an international community, and so far - for all the immense efforts and good intentions - we are failing," UNHR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie said in her statement (via Western Journalism)

She also emotionally talked about the children, who are suffering the most from the war.

"Children whose parents were murdered and are now here unaccompanied - a 19 year old working and being the sole provider for his seven siblings.

I have met mothers whose children have been kidnapped by ISIL. As a parent, I couldn't imagine a greater horror. They are overwhelmed by thoughts of what is happening to their children.

The spill-over from the Syria conflict has been devastating. The brutality of the conflict and speed and scale of the displacement has shocked the world. Help has come, but not nearly enough."
In conclusion, she questioned the leaders, people who supposedly fighting for human rights, if what they are doing are enough to put a stop to the ISIS extremism and give back the life of those who where forced to vacate their homes because of the war.

"But the plain fact is we cannot insulate ourselves against this crisis. The spread of extremism, the surge in foreign fighters, the threat of new terrorism - only an end to the war in Syria will begin to turn the tide on these problems. Without that, we are just tinkering at the edges.

At stake are not only the lives of millions of people and the future of the Middle East, but also the credibility of the international system. What does it say about our commitment to human rights and accountability that we seem to tolerate crimes against humanity happening in Syria and Iraq on a daily basis?"

What do you think about UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie's speech? Do you agree that world leaders are not doing enough to put a stop to the ISIS extremism? Sound off in the comments section below.

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