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Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie's interest in humanitarian affairs was piqued in 2000 when she went to Cambodia to film the adventure movie, "Tomb Raider."

Named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in 2001

In 2003, she started the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation project dedicated to conservation in Cambodia, which later expanded to agriculture, education, health care, vocational training, infrastructure

In 2003, she was the first recipient of the Citizen of the World Award by the United Nations Correspondents Association

In 2005, she launched the National Centre for Refugee and Immigrant Children, an organization that provides free legal aid to young asylum-seekers

2005 she was awarded the Global Humanitarian Award by the United Nations Association of the USA and the Business Council for the United Nations for her work with refugees.

In 2007, the International Rescue Committee awarded its Freedom Award to Jolie and High Commissioner Guterres for their contributions to the cause of refugees and human freedom.

In 2007, Jolie became a member of the influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Jolie has since funded various CFR special reports, including the "Intervention to Stop Mass Atrocities and Genocide."

In 2008, she partnered with Microsoft to launch Kids in Need of Defence (KIND), a pro bono movement of law firms, corporate law departments, NGOs and volunteers committed to providing legal advice to unaccompanied immigrant children in the United States.\

several visits to Haiti in 2010, she established the Jolie Legal Fellows Programme to enhance government capacity around the rule of law. The programme places young lawyers within the existing structures in Haiti to support the government's child protection efforts.

In October 2011, the UN refugee agency paid tribute to Jolie, for her 10 years of service to the humanitarian cause as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador.

In 2012, High Commissioner António Guterres recognized her years of extraordinary service with the refugee

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