Angelina Jolie and UN Refugee Chief Meet With Boat People on Lampedusa

by Gary Kopycinski on June 20, 2011

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NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–19 June 2011. On the eve of this year’s World Refugee Day, Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie joined the United Nations refugee chief on a visit on Sunday to Lampedusa, where they met some of the tens of thousands of people who have crossed the Mediterranean and descended on the small Italian island after fleeing unrest in North Africa.