Jolie: 'Iraq needs better education for children'

Angelina Jolie has called on the international community to do more to ensure the education of Iraqi children is made a top priority.

Jolie - who visited Iraq last August as part of her role as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador - met with other humanitarian workers on Tuesday to discuss how to help Iraqi children regain stability through education following the war.

She told the US Council on Foreign Relations: "The best way to heal children of conflict from trauma is to have them focus on their future.

"Every child has a right to education and conflict is not a reason to ignore that."

Jolie has visited more than 20 humanitarian hot spots, including Iraq and Sudan's troubled Darfur region, since becoming a UN ambassador in 2001.