Angelina Jolie's humanitarian work

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees special envoy Angelina Jolie speaks before a United Nations Security Council meeting on Women and Peace and Security and Sexual Violence in Conflict on June 24, 2013, at UN headquarters in New York. The Oscar-winning actress has traveled the world in her role with the UNCHR, first as a goodwill ambassador and later as a special envoy.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is recognizing her with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian honor at the 2013 Governors Awards.

Jordan

Angelina Jolie takes notes as she speaks with Syrian refugees in a Jordanian military camp based near the Syria-Jordan border on June 18, 2013.

London

Actress Angelina Jolie, in her role as UN envoy, talks during a news conference regarding sexual violence against women in conflict, during the G-8 foreign ministers meeting in London on April, 11, 2013.

Jordan

UNHCR special envoy Angelina Jolie meets with refugees at the Zaatari refugee camp on Dec. 6, 2012, outside of Mafraq, Jordan. Jolie said on her second visit to the region in three months civilians inside the country are being targeted. Many of those trying to flee are exposed to extreme danger right up to the border itself. Since her last visit to the region in September, the number of refugees in the region has increased by more than 200,000 and in Jordan alone by nearly 50,000.

Lebanon

UNHCR special envoy Angelina Jolie, left, meets with Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, on Sept. 12, 2012. Jolie and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres visited Lebanon to hear accounts from Syrian refugees and their host communities in the Bekaa Valley and hold talks with the government.

Jordan

Actress and UNHCR special envoy Angelina Jolie shakes hands with a Syrian refugee during her visit to the Zaatari refugee camp near the Jordanian border with Syria, on Sept. 11, 2012.

Jordan

The U.N. refugee agency's special envoy, actress Angelina Jolie, center, arrives to the Zaatari Refugees Camp in Jordan for Syrians who fled the civil war in their country on Sept. 11, 2012. Jolie said she heard "horrific" and "heartbreaking" accounts from Syrian refugees in a camp which hosts about 30,000 Syrians displaced by the 18-month conflict that has so far claimed at least 23,000 lives, according to activists.

London

Actress Angelina Jolie speaks ahead of a screening of her new film "In the Land of Blood and Honey" at the Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) on May 29, 2012, in London. Jolie spoke on the Foreign Secretary's initiative on preventing sexual violence in Conflict, ahead of the screening.

Ecuador

UNHCR special envoy Angelina Jolie meets with Plinio in the Providencia community on April 22, 2012, in Ecuador. Plinio is growing beans as part of agricultural project supported by UNHCR to encourage self sufficiency and improve nutrition in the community. This community located on the banks of the San Miguel border is composed of 24 Afro-Colombian families, all of them refugees.

Libya

Actress and U.N. goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie visits Libya to help agencies bringing aid to Libyans in Tripoli and Misrata on Oct. 11, 2011, in Misrata, Libya.

Italy

Actress Angelina Jolie, center, looks on next to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, left, during a visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa on June 19, 2011. Jolie made a surprise visit to Lampedusa, thanking residents for hosting thousands of refugees who have fled unrest in north Africa in recent months. She traveled from Malta with Guterres to the Mediterranean island that has been flooded with more than 40,000 asylum-seekers since the start of 2011, the UN refugee agency said.

Tunisia

UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie visits Somali refugees at Shousha Camp near the Tunis-Libyan border on April 5, 2011, at Ras Djir, Tunisia. The actress travelled to the camp in Tunisia to encourage continued funding and support from the international community to further assist the hundreds of thousands of people who have crossed into Tunisia to escape the violence in Libya.

Afghanistan

UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie presents education materials to teacher Gul Rahman and young schoolgirls in the village of Qala Gudar in February 2011, outside Kabul, Afghanistan. Jolie was visiting the site where she will fund a new girls' primary school.

Pakistan

Actress and UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie, right, meets with 64-year-old flood victim Zenul Hawa in the village of Mohib Bandi, on the outskirts of Nowshera, Pakistan, on Sept. 7, 2010. Jolie visited Pakistan's northwest to draw the world's attention towards the plight of 21 million people affected by the country's worst-ever floods.

Bosnia

UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie, right, shakes hands with Bosnian Muslim refugee Sabina Karaman in the village of Medjedja, near the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad, on April 5, 2010. Jolie and partner Brad Pitt flew into Bosnia on a surprise visit to meet refugees still suffering from the brutal 1992-1995 civil war, an official said.

Iraq

UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie sharing a light moment with a displaced Iraqi boy at a makeshift camp, at an undisclosed location northwest of Baghdad, on July 23, 2009. Jolie was on a one-day trip to Iraq to see first-hand the plight of hundreds of thousands of families uprooted by the ongoing conflict.

Iraq

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Angelina Jolie, left, talks to a woman in a wheelchair on Aug. 28, 2007, at the Al Waleed refugee camp, Iraq. Jolie, the UNHCR goodwill ambassador, visited the refugee camp where at least 1,200 people are living.

India

Actress and UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie, left, speaks with the Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, Anand Sharma, at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Nov. 5, 2006. Jolie, who was in New Delhi for two days to work with the UN refugee agency, met with refugee women and children from Myanmar and also the Khalsa Diwan Welfare Society, an organization run by and for Sikh Afghan refugees in India.

Washington

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, confers with UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie, right, at the National Geographic Museum's Explorer's Hall on June 15, 2005, in Washington, D.C. Rice, Jolie, and Paul Rusesabagina, real-life hero of the movie "Hotel Rwanda," met to commemorate World Refugee Day.

Pakistan

United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie is pictured during her visit to the Kacha Ghari Repatriation Centre outside Peshawar, Pakistan, on May 5, 2005. Jolie arrived in Pakistan a day earlier on a four-day mission to focus world attention on the plight of more than 3 million Afghan refugees.

Chad

UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie helps Sudanese refugees load their belongings onto a truck near Tine, Chad, on June 4, 2004. The refugees are crossing the Chadian border, fleeing war-ravaged western Sudan.

Chechnya

Actress and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie talks with refugees in Severny refugee camp on the border between Ingushetia and Chechnya on Aug. 22, 2003.

Switzerland

Actress Angelina Jolie holds a certificate from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees confirming her appointment as a goodwill ambassador for the UNHCR on Aug. 27, 2001, in Geneva, Switzerland.