Actor Ben Stiller will testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday, panel Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, announced.
Stiller, star of such hits as “Dodgeball” and “Zoolander,” is a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.
Risch is holding a hearing on the humanitarian impact of the eight-year war in Syria, which has created a massive refugee crisis.
Stiller will testify alongside International Rescue Committee President David Miliband.
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The U.N. refugee agency appointed Stiller to be a global goodwill ambassador in July.
Stiller has traveled to Guatemala, Jordan, and Germany to meet with refugees “to raise awareness, generate support and give a voice to those who have been forced to leave their homes,” the UNHCR said.
More than 5 million Syrians have fled the country since the civil war began and millions more have been displaced within the country.
