Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has visited displaced Colombians forced to seek refuge across the border in Ecuador, as a special envoy of High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, according to the UNHCR.
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Special Envoy Angelina Jolie (4th L) meets with residents in the village of Barranca Bermeja, on the banks of the San Miguel River which marks the border between Ecuador and Colombia April 22, 2012. The little village of Barranca Bermeja hosts 50 families, 60 percent of them Colombian refugees. Jolie is visiting Ecuador this weekend in her first field visit since being appointed to her new position this month. REUTERS/UNHCR/JTanner/Handout
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Special Envoy Angelina Jolie (2nd R) meets with Plinio (R) in Providencia community, composed of 24 Afro-Colombian refugee families, on the banks of the San Miguel River April 22, 2012. Plinio is a bean farmer belonging to a part of an agricultural project supported by UNHCR to encourage self-sufficiency and improve nutrition in the community. Jolie is visiting Ecuador this weekend in her first field visit since being appointed to her new position this month. REUTERS/UNHCR/JTanner/Handout
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Special Envoy Angelina Jolie (2nd R) walks through a jungle led by Plinio (R), the president of Providencia community, on the banks of the San Miguel River April 22, 2012. Plinio is also a bean farmer belonging to a part of an agricultural project supported by UNHCR to encourage self-sufficiency and improve nutrition in the community, which is composed of 24 Afro-Colombian refugee families. Jolie is visiting Ecuador this weekend in her first field visit since being appointed to her new position this month. REUTERS/UNHCR/JTanner/Handout
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Special Envoy Angelina Jolie (C) meets with 71-year-old Gerardina in the village of Barranca Bermeja, on the banks of the San Miguel River which marks the border between Ecuador and Colombia April 22, 2012. The little village of Barranca Bermeja hosts 50 families, 60 percent of them Colombian refugees. Jolie is visiting Ecuador this weekend in her first field visit since being appointed to her new position this month. REUTERS/Jason Tanner/UNHCR/Handout
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