Special envoy for the U.N. Refugee Agency, Angelina Jolie, released a statement via the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday (August 23), imploring the world to address the conditions of child refugees from Syria.<br/> <br />The actress and U.N. ambassador said that one million Syrian children are left without food, shelter and protection and that they were "innocent victims of a senseless conflict."<br/> <br />She said that thousands of children have lost their lives, and included the recent attacks near Damascus.<br/> <br />On Wednesday (August 21), rockets launched deadly fumes over rebel-held Damascus suburbs, killing men, women and children as they slept.<br/> <br />It is yet to be determined who the responsible party was for the mysterious pre-dawn killer fumes, with the death toll estimated at between 500 and 1,300 in what would be the world's most lethal chemical weapons attack since the 1980s.<br/> <br />Jolie, who has visited refugee camps around the world, has previously s