CNN's senior international correspondent
Arwa Damon investigates the shocking exploitation of Syrian refugee
women and girls in the half-hour documentary, "Syria Uncovered" this weekend on CNN International. For more programming times, click here.
(CNN) -- The world pays attention to Angelina Jolie when she's stepping out with partner Brad Pitt, writing opinion pieces and spurring debate about breast cancer or promoting her latest movie.
Now, she's is hoping to turn that spotlight onto Syria's refugee crisis.
This week, Jolie -- a
special envoy for the U.N.'s refugee agency -- traveled to the world's
second-largest refugee camp, where she spoke to Syrian refugees and documented their stories in a video for CNN.
Nearly 1.7 million
Syrians have fled the country's brutal civil war, many living in densely
crowded refugee camps in Syria's neighboring countries. Jordan's
Za'atri refugee camp, which Jolie visited to mark Thursday's World Refugee Day, was built to house 20,000 refugees but now has more than 120,000.
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