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| Actress Angelina Jolie poses with United
Nations Association of the USA chairman William H. Luers at the
UNA-USA 2005 annual dinner, where she was presented with the Global
Humanitarian Action Award, in New York, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005.
(AP) |
Angelina Jolie has accepted an award for her humanitarian work as a
goodwill ambassador for the United Nations refugee agency.
At a dinner attended by 700 diplomats and VIP guests Tuesday, Jolie
received the Global Humanitarian Award from the United Nations Association
of the U.S.A.
The actress said her humanitarian work has been "the greatest thing in
my life" aside from her two children.
Jolie has a 4-year-old son, Maddox, who was adopted from Cambodia, and
an infant daughter, Zahara, adopted this summer from Ethiopia.
She said she hoped she would live up to the promise she made to herself
when she became a goodwill ambassador four years ago for the office of the
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees to do everything possible to help
refugees all over the world because "they deserve every bit of our
effort."
Jolie quoted from the preamble to the U.N. Charter which reaffirms
"faith in human rights" and said, "the U.N. is the closest thing to
fighting for justice."
"I feel very, very privileged to be a very small part of it," Jolie
said.
(Agencies) | 
Updated: 2005-10-13 09:43
