The American actress, who is also a goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, landed at a UN base in Port-au-Prince, where she was seen wearing a black jacket and tinted sunglasses.

The Oscar-winner then visited the SOS Children's Villages, in Santo, just outside the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.

The charity seeks to reunite children with their parents, but has recently been embroiled in controversy over 33 children who were staying at the facility.

Ten American missionaries have been charged and face lengthy prison sentences for kidnapping the Haitian children and taking them across the border to the Dominican Republic.

The 10 say they were on a humanitarian mission.

On Monday, Jolie toured the pediatric wing of Dario Contreras Hospital, a leading trauma hospital in the Dominican capital Santo Domingo.

Jolie was also joined by Gonzalo Vargas Llosa, the head of the UNHCR team for Haiti and the Dominican Republic and a son of Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa.

The actress and her partner, actor Brad Pitt, donated one million dollars to Doctors without Borders (Medecins sans Frontieres) in Haiti following the January 12 quake, the worst natural disaster on record in the Americas.