In this photo released by the United Nations Human
Committee for Refugees actress Angelina Jolie, listens to
Dona Marianela in the town of Sucumbios, Ecuador.
Angelina Jolie has traveled on rutted jungle roads to a
village on Ecuador's border with Colombia to highlight the
abuses suffered by women and children refugees.
The actress and U.N. human rights goodwill ambassador
returned for the first time in eight years to a turbulent
region where thousands of Colombian refugees live.
She ended her two-day visiton Friday with a meeting in
Shushufindi with President Rafael Correa and other senior
government officials.
On Thursday, Jolie was in the isolated border hamlet of
Barranca Bermeja. The U.N. says one of the women she met had
lost two children in Colombia's conflict.
More than 50,000 Colombian refugees are registered in Ecuador
though unofficial estimates put the number at more than
170,000.
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