Angelina Jolie: A Voice for the Victims

UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie recently concluded a two-day trip to a refugee camp in eastern Chad that houses refugees from Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region, praising humanitarian workers for their tireless efforts in providing assistance while calling for more aid to those in need. Angelina hopes her visit will help focus the world's attention on the war in Darfur and the plight of the refugees. "If I can draw you in a little because I'm familiar, then that's great," she told Newsweek's Middle East Regional Editor Christopher Dickey after she came back from her visit to the Oure Cassoni camp. "Because I know that at the end you're not looking at me, you're looking at them." Well ...... "As long as [you] end up looking at them, that's the point." Jolie's response to critics who call what she does "celebrity tourism" is matter-of-fact: "I don't know if anybody saying that has spent the last six years of their life going to over 30 camps and really spending time with these people."