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Angelina Jolie has touched down in Yemen. The Oscar winner, who has been a special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees since 2012, shared in an Instagram post Sunday that she traveled to the city of Aden amid what she called «one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.»«I’ve landed in Aden, to meet displaced families and refugees for UNHCR @refugees and show my support for the people of Yemen,» the mother of six captioned her post. «I will do my best to communicate from the ground as the days unfold.»While referencing the attack Ukraine is currently facing from Russia, Jolie shone a light on the ongoing plight of the Yemeni people. «As we continue to watch the horrors unfolding in Ukraine, and call for an immediate end to the conflict and humanitarian access, I’m here in Yemen to support people who also desperately need peace,» she wrote.

Angelina Jolie, 46, told fans that she’d arrived in Yemen’s city Aden to help offer support for people, who, like Ukrainians, are in dire need of peace in an Instagram post on Sunday March 6. The actress shared a few statistics about the struggles that people from Yemen face, and called for further support for them, as she likened the situation to that in Ukraine. “This week a million people were forced to flee the horrific war in Ukraine. If we learn anything from this shocking situation, it is that we cannot be selective about who deserves support and whose rights we defend,” she wrote in one slide.

Angelina Jolie is on the ground in Yemen to aid refugees. Jolie, 46, emphasized the need to support all displaced families and refugees as she arrived in the capital city of Yemen on Sunday amid the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia. The U.N.

Angelina Jolie on Sunday visited war-wrecked Yemen to show solidarity with displaced families in hopes of mobilizing support for an incoming fundraising conference, the United Nations said.Jolie, who is special envoy for the U.N. on refugee issues, landed in the southern coastal city of Aden to meet with families and refugees there.

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Manori Ravindran International EditorOne of the most controversial movies to emerge from this year’s Sundance Film Festival is a documentary called “Jihad Rehab,” which follows a group of former Guantanamo Bay detainees.Directed by American filmmaker Megan Smaker — a former California firefighter who spent five years in Yemen — the film follows several Yemeni men who were unlawfully detained for 15 years in the U.S.-run detention camp, before being relocated to Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed Bin Nayef Centre for Counselling and Care — a so-called “rehabilitation center” for extremists who must graduate the program before they’re allowed to rejoin society.The film tracks Ali, Nadir and Mohammed’s turbulent journey over three years as they try to come to grips with their trauma and navigate an uneasy future in Saudi Arabia, where it’s illegal for them, as Yemenis, to leave. (A Saudi-led coalition of Gulf states infiltrated Yemen’s civil war in 2015, carrying out air raids that have devastated the nation.) While “Jihad Rehab” isn’t the first film in the grisly orbit of Guantanamo, its Sundance premiere has received heavy criticism from human rights advocates and other documentarians, many of them from Arab or Muslim backgrounds, who are concerned that the doc’s subjects are being framed as criminals (despite never standing trial in the U.S.

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Six months after 9/11, firefighter turned “Jihad Rehab” filmmaker Meg Smaker left her job as a Bay Area firefighter to travel to the Middle East to better understand the world she lived in.After making a pit stop in Afghanistan, Smaker moved to Yemen to study Arabic and Islam, and got a job there running a firefighting academy. “So I was a head fire instructor, teaching Yemeni men to fight fire in Yemen, which is where I was when I first heard about the rehab center, when I was living in Yemen and teaching a firefighting like course,” Smaker tells Sharon Waxman at The Wrap’s Sundance Studio.

Tomris Laffly “Are you a good person or a bad person?” This is the question that documentarian Meg Smaker poses to one of her subjects in a quietly reflective moment of “Jihad Rehab,” her thought-provoking film about Saudi Arabia’s controversial rehabilitation center for radicalized extremists. “I don’t know,” comes the response, from a man with a hefty résumé of terrorist activities.

An asylum seeker has described food and conditions at a hotel in Liverpool as 'disastrous'.

Both British and American embassies in the United Arab Emirates are receiving backlash online from conservative Emiratis after raising the rainbow Pride flag alongside their own national flags in celebration of Pride Month in June.The UAE still criminalises same-sex relationships.

Haley Bosselman editorAcademy Award-nominated documentary “Hunger Ward” paints an intimate portrait of the children in Yemen suffering from starvation and malnourishment as a result of war-induced famine.

Skye Fitzgerald’s experience making films about human rights issues in the Middle East prepared him for one practical aspect of making Hunger Ward.

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according to The Guardian. The paper reports that Mr Alhabib travelled on the small boat with 15 other people from Yemen, Syria and Iran.One Yemeni asylum seeker who travelled with Mr Alhabib told the Guardian they had been charged €2,000 or €3,000 to be smuggled across the water.They described the journey as ‘terrifying’.

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The virtual map on the website of the International Medical Corps shows where the emergency relief agency has provided aid since its founding in 1984: Zimbabwe, Yemen, Syria and Venezuela — to name but a few. Now, IMC, which counts J.J.

Abeer, one of the main subjects of Skye Fitzgerald’s short documentary Hunger Ward, is as pretty as a fairytale princess, with eloquent brown eyes and a smile—when it appears—to melt the heart.

Christopher Vourlias Wild Bunch TV is set to launch three new series, “Crisis Unit,” “Fragile” and “We Are Now,” at MIPCOM and the Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo (MIA) in Rome.Created and directed by Jacob Berger, “Crisis Unit” is a political thriller set in the murky underworld of the humanitarian industry in Yemen.

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Angelina Jolie made an “extremely generous” donation to two 6-year-old boys who set up a lemonade stand fundraiser for Yemen amid its humanitarian crisis. Although Jolie, 45, never visited Ayaan Moosa and Mikaeel Ishaaq’s stand in London, England, she still showed her support.

Angelina Jolie has always been heavily invested in her philanthropy over the years where she's not only opened up about issues close to her heart but has also let her actions do the talking. This time, the 45-year-old actress helped two young boys from London, Ayaan Moosa and Mikaeel Ishaaq, in their thoughtful gesture to raise funds to help the humanitarian crisis in war-torn Yemen by setting up a lemonade stand.

Angelina Jolie is continuing to do good.

Two British children running a lemonade stand to raise money for those suffering from the humanitarian crisis in Yemen have received an unexpected donation from Angelina Jolie.

Angelina Jolie is celebrating two young boys’ Yemen relief efforts.

Angelina Jolie has sent a donation to two six-year-old boys who opened a lemonade stand in London. The 'Maleficent' actress read about the efforts of friends Ayaan Moosa and Mikaeel Ishaaq, who have raised more than £37,000 this summer for children in Yemen, on the BBC News website and sent them a note explaining she was sorry she couldn't purchase one of their drinks, but still wanted to help.

Angelina Jolie donated to a fundraiser called "Lemonade for Yemen-Aid," organized by two boys in the United Kingdom to raise money for the Yemen Crisis Appeal.Per the Ilford Recorder, Ayaan Moosa and Mikaeel Ishaaq were surprised when Jolie heard about the lemonade stand they'd created and sent them a personal note. The lemonade stand went viral after the BBC reported on the charity endeavor.

Mackenzie Nichols Staff WriterSpin Film and Vulcan Productions announced on Wednesday that Oscar-nominated director Skye Fitzgerald is in the last stages of post-production on “Hunger Ward,” a short documentary about the war in Yemen.“Hunger Ward,” filmed in Yemen in early 2020, follows two female health care workers, Dr. Aida Alsadeeq and Nurse Mekkia Mahdi, who are fighting in opposition of widespread starvation in the country.

39 people from Vietnam found dead in a refrigerated lorry last October.Families try to enter the UK without a visa from poor and war-torn parts of the world such as from Yemen and Iraq, in the hope that they can make a better life in the UK rather than in their homelands.Many claim asylum - where you can only apply once you have left your country and are unable to go back over fear of persecution.When picked up at the Channel, UK Border Force would usually take them to detention centres before

2 min read A blogger, born in Yemen but now an undocumented immigrant in Saudi Arabia, has been convicted and sentenced to 10 months in prison after he tweeted that there should be equal rights for everyone – including the LGBTQ community.

Little Mix star Jade Thirlwall has opened up on “avoiding” discussing her race when she shot to fame with the girl group on the X Factor.The 27-year-old revealed how she feared opening up on her mixed-race heritage after being cruelly bullied when she was in school. Jade’s grandfather is from Yemen, while her maternal grandmother is from Egypt.

Arms firms linked to alleged war crimes and torture have passed human rights checks by a Scots agency and been given grants, it has emerged.

NEW YORK -- The Yemeni-American poet Threa Almontaser has won the Walt Whitman Award for best first book. Almontaser's “The Wild Fox of Yemen” comes out in April 2021.

Air crews with the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen are facing Saudi legal proceedings for alleged war crimes linked to a US arms firm with a base in Scotland.