Jolie heads 2007 humanitarian poll
Angelina Jolie has topped a Reuters poll parrot of the topper renown humanitarians of 2007.
The poll of 606 citizenry by do-gooder web website Reuters AlertNet set the 32-year-old star ahead of U2 singer Bono, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Microsoft founder Billhook William Henry Gates.
Jolie kit and caboodle as a UN good will embassador and has tried to lift knowingness of the problems facing Africa.
Simon Peter Walker, Film director of the Feinstein International Famine Centre at Tufts University in the US, said: "Somebody like Angelina Jolie comes across as having more integrity than roughly celebrities and a greater sense that she doesn't just do this for the publicity."
Commenting on Jolie's work for UNHCR, UNHCR spokesman Shaft Kessler said: "She does this in a very low-key way. She goes come out to interpret for herself, to get up close and rattling personal. She doesn't jaunt with film crews, and I think that is real testimony to her dedication to the reason."
Piece Bono ranked second behind Jolie, he too had sufficiency negative votes to feature in the top of the inning quint least-liked humanitarians - on with Dock Geldof.
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