{"id":6621,"date":"2016-05-17T07:08:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T06:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6621"},"modified":"2016-05-17T07:08:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T06:08:48","slug":"migrant-crisis-needs-generosity-not-fear-jolie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/migrant-crisis-needs-generosity-not-fear-jolie\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrant crisis needs generosity, not fear: Jolie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2463 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Angelina-Jolie.jpg\" alt=\"Angelina Jolie\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/>UN special envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt urged the international community on Monday to respond to Europe\u2019s worst refugee crisis since World War II with generosity and not the \u201cpolitics of fear.\u201d<br \/>\nIn a speech in London, the Oscar-winning Hollywood actress said there was a \u201cduty that falls on all of us\u201d to help those fleeing their homes, warning the alternative was \u201cchaos.\u201d<br \/>\nThe American star also had criticism for US presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has proposed building a wall to stop Mexican immigrants and called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is hard to hear that this is coming from somebody who is pressing to be an American president,\u201d she said in a question and answer session after her speech.<br \/>\n\u201cAmerica is built on people coming together for freedom, especially freedom of religion.\u201d<br \/>\nConflicts, including the five-year war in Syria, have fueled a global refugee crisis, with 60 million refugees and displaced people across the world. Jolie Pitt, a UN special envoy for refugees, said she recognized that some people felt \u201cangry\u201d about the numbers of people on the move, and no longer had faith that institutions could deal with the issue.<br \/>\n\u201cIt has given space to a false air of legitimacy to those who promote the politics of fear and separation,\u201d she said.<br \/>\n\u201cIt has created the risk of a race to the bottom, with countries competing to be the toughest in the hope of protecting themselves whatever the cost or challenge to their neighbors, and despite their international responsibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/migrant-crisis-needs-generosity-not-fear-jolie\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN special envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt urged the international community on Monday to respond to Europe\u2019s worst refugee crisis since World War II with generosity and not the \u201cpolitics of fear.\u201d In a speech in London, the Oscar-winning Hollywood actress said there was a \u201cduty that falls on all of us\u201d to help those fleeing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6622,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions\/6622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}