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By BRAM JANSSEN Associated Press12:05 p.m.Jan. 25, 2015
Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Angelina Jolie delivers a speech during a press conference in Khanke camp in Dahuk, north of the Kurdistan region, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. Actress and United Nations envoy Angelina Jolie called on the international community to do more for people in Iraq and Syria, during a visit to a refugee camp in northern Iraq on Sunday. (AP Photo/Seivan M. Selim)
Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Angelina Jolie speaks with Dohuk governor, Farhad Atrushi, during a press conference in Khanke camp in Dahuk, north of the Kurdistan region, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. Actress and United Nations envoy Angelina Jolie called on the international community to do more for people in Iraq and Syria, during a visit to a refugee camp in northern Iraq on Sunday. (AP Photo/Seivan M. Selim)
Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Angelina Jolie stands with Dohuk governor, Farhad Atrushi, at Khanke camp in Dahuk, north of the Kurdistan region, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. Actress and United Nations envoy Angelina Jolie called on the international community to do more for people in Iraq and Syria, during a visit to a refugee camp in northern Iraq on Sunday. (AP Photo/Seivan M. Selim)
Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Angelina Jolie delivers a speech during a press conference in Khanke camp in Dahuk, north of the Kurdistan region, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. Actress and United Nations envoy Angelina Jolie called on the international community to do more for people in Iraq and Syria, during a visit to a refugee camp in northern Iraq on Sunday. (AP Photo/Seivan M. Selim)
DOHUK, Iraq (AP) Actress Angelina Jolie, the special envoy for the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR, appealed Sunday for urgent funding to assist more than three million displaced Iraqis and Syrians living in dire conditions in northern Iraq.
Visiting Iraq for the fifth time, Jolie said that the slow pace of funding this year to help people displaced by the conflicts in Syria and Iraq has triggered a humanitarian crisis that will lead to catastrophe if not addressed. The UNHCR said it received only 53 percent of the $337 million required to fund its response to internal displacement in Iraq and Syria during 2014.
"We are being tested here as an international community and so far, for all the immense efforts and good intentions, the international community is failing," she told journalists at a camp for the displaced in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk. "The people I met today need to know that we will be with them. Giving them the support they need to survive for every day they remain displaced. And above all they need to know that one day they will be able to go home."
The civil war in Syria, now entering its fourth year, prompted millions to flee their homes to neighboring countries and abroad as the fighting showed no sign of easing. The fighting intensified and later spilled into Iraq as the militant Islamic State group rose up and seized about one-third of both Iraq and Syria. The extremist militia's stunning territorial gains have driven millions more from their homes in both countries.
"Millions of people are internally displaced and over five million people are in dire need of humanitarian assistance in Syria alone," Jolie said. "They are paying the price for our collective failure to end the conflict which has allowed extremists to take hold."
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DOHUK, Iraq, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Actress and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy Angelina Jolie visited Iraq to raise awareness for the 3.3 million displaced in the country.
"It is shocking to see how the humanitarian situation in Iraq has deteriorated since my last visit [in 2012]," Jolie said of her Sunday visit. "On top of large numbers of Syrian refugees, 2 million Iraqis were displaced by violence in 2014 alone. Many of these innocent people have been uprooted multiple times as they seek safety amidst shifting front lines."
Jolie has visited Iraq five times and met with Syrian refugees in the region six times. During her latest trip, she spoke with internally displaced people in Khanke, near Dohuk city, including Yazidi women who were recently released by insurgents.
"Nothing can prepare you for the horrific stories of these survivors of kidnap, abuse and exploitation and to see how they cannot all get the urgent help they need and deserve," Jolie said.
The United Nations continues to face a funding shortfall that has impacted its aid operations. The 2014 budget was 53 percent funded and the projected funding for 2015 has only reached 31 percent.
"The needs so dramatically outstrip the resources available in this vast crisis," Jolie said. "The international community has to step up and do more."
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