Angelina Jolie and daughter Shiloh continued their humanitarian trip on Saturday, visiting South Eastern Turkey for World Refugee Day.
Angelina serves as a special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and her 9-year-old daughter with husband Brad Pitt visited a Syrian and Iraqi refugee camp in the town of Midyat, in the Mardin province of Turkey.
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She voiced her concerns while visiting the camp, saying that this is the "worst refugee crisis ever recorded." "Our world has never been richer or healthier or more advanced. Yet never before have so many people been dispossessed and stripped of their basic human rights," she said according to the released statement online.
"We should call this what it is: not just a 'refugee crisis,' but a crisis of global security and governance, that is manifesting itself in the worst refugee crisis ever recorded – and a time of mass displacement."
Jolie hopes that international community and leaders, as well as ministers and ambassadors, will help to make a change.
"I call, again, on the United Nations Security Council: Send your ministers and ambassadors here. Witness this crisis for yourself," Jolie said. "See that it simply cannot go on. And that it is past time for a credible plan to reach a political solution to end the conflict."
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Jolie and Shiloh were also joined by the UNHCR High Commissioner Antonio Guterres on their refugee camp visits.
"This is a central problem. We cannot pick and choose which human rights violations we will and won't tolerate," she said.
The 40-year-old actress brought Shiloh first to Lebanon to spend time with a 12-year-old Syrian girl she met a year before during another UNHCR trip.
"Shiloh is very aware that I hold refugee families in high regard and has been asking to come on missions and meet them for many years," Mrs. brad Pitt told PEOPLE.
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