Angelina Call on Countries To Prioritise The Fight Against rape in Warfare

According to Skynews, Angelina Jolie has made her debut in front of the UN in New York, urging countries to fight against sexual violence used as a weapon during conflicts.
The actress, a goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said the Security Council had witnessed 67 years of war and conflict since it was established, but warzone rape had yet to be treated as a "serious priority".
She told the council: "You set the bar. If the ... council sets rape and sexual violence in conflict as a priority it will become one and progress will be made.
"If you do not, this horror will continue."
British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who presided over the meeting, said: "In conflicts in nearly every corner of the globe, rape is used systematically and ruthlessly, in the almost certain knowledge that there will be no consequences for the perpetrators."

Jolie, 38, is a goodwill ambassador for the UN

Soon after the 38-year-old actress spoke, the Security Council adopted a legally binding resolution demanding the complete and immediate cessation of all acts of sexual violence by all parties to armed conflict.
It noted that sexual violence can constitute a crime against humanity and can be a contributing act to genocide. It called for improved monitoring of sexual violence in conflicts and urged the UN and donors to assist survivors.
Mr Hague added: "The time has come for the world to take a strong and determined stand to make clear that the systematic use of rape as a weapon is not acceptable in the modern world and our objective is to change the entire global attitude to these issues."
Jolie recounted meetings with survivors of sexual violence, including the mother of a five-year-old girl who had ben raped outside a police station in Goma in eastern Congo.
She said: "Meet your commitments, debate this issue in your parliaments, mobilise people in your countries and build it into all your foreign policy efforts.
"Together, you can turn the tide of global opinion, shatter impunity and finally put an end to this abhorrence."