Angelina Jolie Showing Her Different Face Expressions

Boasting its many faces, Angelina Jolie speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations on the desperate need for education to help bring about change and hope for Iraqi refugee children.

During a speech in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, Beowulf pregnant actress told the crowd that: 'It is a fact that the best way to treat children in conflict and their trauma is to concentrate their minds on their future. "

"The people we are talking about is the future of Iraq," Angelina Jolie added. "So to achieve now, to help them overcome their trauma and refocus their minds on a possible must be one of our major priorities. "

Angelina Jolie , 32, added: "We need these kids ... To rebuild their country, to stabilize their country and to lead their country. "

Angelina Jolie Want To Discuss A New Initiative For Education

Toting around her growing baby bump, Angelina Jolie arrived to discuss a new initiative to educate the world at a Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC, forum on Tuesday (April 8).

The previous day, Jolie was spotted running around the nation's capital with wires and Pax Maddox Jolie-Pitt, visiting DC's Air and Space Museum, The Washington Post reports.

Insiders People on the scene said that Angelina Jolie was "accompanied by security guards and have a navy hoodie, 6 years old, Maddox and 4 years, Pax, an olive green jacket, which apparently asked a barrage of questions as they looking On Space Hall, Skylab and World War I and World War II aerial exhibitions. "

Later, on Monday evening, the left Jolie kiddies at home, she attended a Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards Gala, where she presented Mariane Pearl with an award.

Angelina Jolie Urged The International Community To Educate Iraqi Children

Actress and activist for human rights Angelina Jolie urged the international community on Tuesday to educate Iraqi children a higher priority.

"The best way to treat children from the trauma of conflict is to have them focus on their future," Jolie told the Council on Foreign Relations.

Angelina Jolie, who visited Iraq in August, and other humanitarian workers discussed how to help children displaced Iraqis regain a sense of normalcy and stability through education.

The schooling of refugee children are often victims of violence and political unrest, "said Gene Sperling, an economic adviser to former President Bill Clinton, who co-chairs the Education Partnership for Children conflicts with Jolie.

"Every child has the right to education and conflict is not a reason to ignore that," Angelina Jolie said.

The Hollywood actress has visited more than 20 humanitarian hotspots, including Iraq and the Darfur region of Sudan, since becoming a goodwill ambassador of the United Nations in 2001.

The Iraq war has produced 4.5 million refugees and internally displaced persons. Of those who fled the country, about 1.5 million are now in neighbouring Syria, while hundreds of thousands have been moved to Jordan and Lebanon.

Speakers at the event recommended building more schools and provision of textbooks inside Iraq and urged more support for governments that host refugees from Iraq.

Syria and Jordan have stretched their limited budgets to educate some Iraqi children, but they need help to accommodate the influx of students, "said George Rupp, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee.