The UN’s most notable goodwill ambassador is being called to the Philippines.

A group of farmers have written to the United Nations requesting that Angelina Jolie visit the country in order to shed light on the current troubles facing displaced refugees in the region, E! Online reports.

The Movement of Farmers in the Philippines wrote a letter to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees detailing the hardships of the country and specifically asking for Jolie’s presence in the Philippines.

Decades of insurgencies have left more than 2 million Filipinos homeless and more than 160,000 killed by ongoing civil unrest.

E! Online reports that the farmers’ leader told reporters on Friday that with the help of someone like Jolie, global attention could shift to the region and move people to help the country.

“Since June 2005, we have been asking the chair of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, to look into this and send Angelina Jolie to see the real situation of internally displaced people in the country. Hundreds of people are being forced out of their homes and farms every month,” the farmer reportedly said.

No comment from Jolie has been made yet but the actor has devoted many humanitarian efforts to refugee camps around the world, specifically in Cambodia, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Pakistan and Iraq.






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