Angelina Jolie spoke in Washington D.C. Tuesday at a Council on Foreign Affairs meeting about education for Iraqi children. Angie, co-chair of the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict and goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, was not there to protest the war, but to urge the international community to make educating Iraqi children a greater priority. The actress/activist stressed that every child has the right to education.

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Angie told CNN in an interview,

"I'm not good at policy and fixing all this and saying what's wrong. But I do know that [the United Nations] needs to be more active inside Iraq."

At the meeting, Jolie told the Council, "The best way to heal children of conflict from trauma is to have them focus on their future." CGG couldn't have said it better ourselves!

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The Iraq war has produced 4.5 million refugees and internally displaced many others. About 1.5 million people who have fled the country are now in neighboring Syria, while hundreds of thousands have relocated to Jordan and Lebanon.

Other speakers at the event suggested building more schools and providing textbooks inside Iraq and pushed for more support for governments hosting Iraqi refugees.

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