The United States have been requested by a leftist farmers' group to send Angelina Jolie to the Philippines in order to take into account that the people displaced by army offensives in the countryside are more and more numerous. Angelina was requested to do so, as she is famous for her various charity acts and her implication in such matters. Most importantly, she is an ambassador of goodwill at the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.

The Philippines are in real trouble, the Philippine army has been fighting communist insurgents and Muslim separatists in twin insurgencies ever since the late 1960s.  160,000 people have been killed in these attacks, more than 2 million have been displaced and the country's economic growth was completely destroyed.

According to Willy Marbella, the leader of  The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (Movement of Farmers in the Philippines), a letter has been sent to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. They were asked to check their county's situation, and especially the refugee situation, which has grown even worse.

Marbella stated: "Since June 2005, we have been asking the chair of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, to look into this and send Angelina Jolie to see the real situation of internally displaced people in the country. Hundreds of people are being forced out of their homes and farms every month."

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country.

In more than five decades, the agency has helped an estimated 50 million people restart their lives. Today, a staff of around 6,289 people in 111 countries continues to help 32.9 million persons.

For further information, please visit http://www.unhcr.org/home.html