The Oscar-winning actress listened as the asylum seekers - many of them women from Libya, Somalia, Ethiopia and sub-Saharan Africa awaiting the processing of their claims - recounted the difficulties they had lived through before reaching the centres.
Thousands of people have been pulled from the waters around Malta.
Some of the women described how they had lost their babies during the violence. Others miscarried at sea, or in the case of one woman, in the detention centre.
The ongoing unrest in North Africa means thousands more are likely to attempt to establish a new life away from conflict in their home regions.
Jolie then travelled on with UN's High Commissioner for Refugees to the Italian island of Lampedusa ahead of World Refugee Day, where she was shown how refugees are processed by staff on the island.
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