Angelina Jolie Pitt Tours Factory with Aung San Suu Kyi During Myanmar Humanitarian Trip

Angelina Jolie Pitt with Aung San Suu Kyi (center) during a humanitarian trip to Myanmar

 

Angelina Jolie Pitt's humanitarian trip to Myanmar continued with a tour of some of the working conditions facing female workers, where she was joined by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

It was a personal invitation from Kyi, who has advocated for democratic rule in the nation for decades, that brought Jolie Pitt to Myanmar for the first time.

Her trip – conducted in her capacity as both the co-founder of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative and as a U.N. Refugee Agency Special Envoy – took her to Yangon, where she and Kyi met with female workers.

They toured a factory and discussed the workers' living conditions.
"I am looking forward to meeting with many people including women's groups, civil society, displaced people and youth, to learn firsthand from them about their concerns and hopes for the future of their country," Jolie Pitt, 40, told PEOPLE earlier this week.

In Yangon, Jolie Pitt also met with first-time female voters during a trip to the "She Leads" program, which works to help women understand the democratic electoral process.

Angelina Jolie Pitt with Aung San Suu Kyi (far left) during a humanitarian trip to Myanmar

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On Friday, she met with representatives from the Rohingya, a Muslim minority group which has endured waves of violence and oppression, in Yangon to hear more about life in the Rakhine State.

Conflicts in Rakhine in 2012 killed almost 200 and displaced another 140,000, according to the Myanmar Times, and many have not been able to return to their homes.

"The situation for the displaced inside this country is extremely serious," Jolie Pitt said in a statement to 

PEOPLE.