Oscar-winning actress and human rights activist Angelina Jolie is her celeb status to help bring attention to the Syrian refugee crisis. The brunette beauty, who is an ambassador for United Nations' refugee agency, penned an emotional op-ed piece for U.K.'s The Times.

Earlier this year Brad Pitt's lady love visited a Syrian refugee camp during a humanitarian trip and has written about the cause in a piece for the New York Times. In Monday's Times piece, Angelina, along with journalist Arminka Helic, wrote:
    "At no time in recent history has there been a greater need for leadership to deal with the consequences and causes of the global refugee crisis. Syrians are fleeing barrel bombs, chemical weapons, rape and massacres. Their country has become a killing field. It should come as no surprise that people who have endured years of war, or who have been living in refugee camps on dwindling rations, are taking matters into their own hands."


Jolie also made sure to praise the "growing numbers of political leaders" who have welcomed groups of refugees into numerous European countries. However she made sure to point out that the conflict in Syria isn't isolated the country, that it's an international problem.

"We need to build on this and make it a turning point in people's understanding not just of the Syria conflict but of the global refugee crisis," she wrote.

Jolie also made it clear that we have a duty to help these refugees, saying, "The first is that the responsibility to help is not determined by the accident of geography but by adherence to universal human rights and values. It transcends religion, culture and ethnicity. We should not be reaching for the lowest common denominator in our response to the refugee crisis, but striving to live up to our highest ideals. Every country in the world, not just in Europe, must be a part of the solution."

The 40-year-old also called for something other than a short-term remedy to this conflict. "We cannot donate our way out of the crisis, we cannot solve it simply by taking in refugees, we have to find a diplomatic route to end the conflict," she said, asking the U.N. Security Council to visit the region and pleading for "long-term solutions" to resolving conflicts.