Angelina Jolie Lends Voice to Syrian Refugees in Jordan
75,000 Syrian refugees are stranded in the Jordanian camp which is a no man’s land.
The United Nations Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) Special Envoy Angelina Jolie called on world leaders gathering in New York later in September 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 on 9 September, Jolie said none of the camp’s 60,000 residents had not suffered loss and trauma, yet they still counted themselves among the lucky ones.
Jolie said that the 75,000 Syrians stranded in the no man’s land on the Jordanian border, known as Berm, had no access to humanitarian assistance and that none of the basic protection under International Humanitarian Law (IHL) are being applied to them.
(With inputs from AP.)
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