Angelina Jolie decries ‘explosion of human suffering’

Angelina Jolie has described a spiralling global refugee crisis as an “explosion of human suffering” whose causes the international community refuses to confront.

Jolie, who serves as a UN special envoy for refugees, was speaking at a news conference in south-eastern Turkey, home to Syrians and Iraqis displaced by war, on World Refugee Day.

The UN refugee agency UNHCR said in a report last week that there were now more refugees than at any other time in history, with 59.5m people displaced from their homes worldwide.