US actress and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie (C-L) and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C-R) leave after visiting a small garment factory in the HlaingTharYar township, Yangon, Myanmar, 01 August 2015. Angelina Jolie is on a six days visit to Myanmar as UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. EPA
The Oscar-winning star, who is also a special envoy for the United Nations’ refugee agency, arrived in Myanmar on Wednesday, meeting President Thein Sein in the capital Naypyidaw and survivors of sexual violence in war-torn northern Kachin state.
On Saturday she met Suu Kyi at her residence in Yangon after which the pair visited women from Myanmar’s largely female textile industry workforce at their living quarters in Hlaing Tha Yar, a town on the western outskirts of the city.
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