UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt visits Greece (UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)

(Source: UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Press Releases, 16 March 2016 UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt is visiting Greece today on behalf of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi. The Special Envoy's mission will concentrate on the humanitarian situation of thousands of refugee families in Greece, most of whom were forced to flee Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. Close to 85% of all the refugees and asylum seekers who have arrived in Europe landed in Greece since January 2015. Today, there are over 40,000 people in...