Angelina Jolie To Give Speech On Refugee Crisis

London: Angelina Jolie is going to speak on behalf of those caught in the global refugee crisis during a BBC News event.

The 40-year-old actress, director and humanitarian will deliver the keynote address during a BBC News event called ‘World On The Move’, an entire day of programming dedicated to immigration issues. Jolie, a longtime UN special envoy, will deliver her speech on May 16, which will be broadcasted live on BBC World Service and BBC World News.

In March 2016, Jolie traveled to a refugee camp in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, where hundreds of thousands of Syrians have sought refuge. She called out world leaders for failing millions of victims who were forced to flee their homes. “We cannot manage the world through aid relief in the place of diplomacy and political solutions,” she said. 

She also traveled to Greece, visiting both a refugee camp on the island of Lesbos and the port of Piraeus, where thousands of refugees remain caught in limbo. Jolie also met with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens.During Jolie's last trip to Lebanon she said she'd hoped to be helping victims return to their homes on the fifth anniversary of the uprising against President Bashar Assad. It's “tragic and shameful that we seem to be so far from that point,” she said.BBC News will dedicate the whole of May 16 to discussing migration and its global impact.

Jolie is currently abroad directing the Netflix movie, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, based on the memoir from Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung about surviving the deadly Khmer Rouge regime.