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Entertainment: Jolie and UK’s Hague host sexual violence summit

LONDON (AP) — Actress and U.N. envoy Angelina Jolie and British Foreign Secretary William Hague on Tuesday opened a four-day international summit to focus attention on rape of women in war zones and conflict areas.

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Actress Angelina Jolie arrives at the ‘End Sexual Violence in Conflict’ summit in London. Actress Angelina Jolie and British Foreign Secretary William Hague are hosting a four-day summit on sexual violence in war zones, attended by officials from over 100 countries. The summit, starting Tuesday, aims to identify ways to improve investigation of sexual violence and provide support for women and girls. (AP Photo/PA, Stefan Rousseau) UNITED KINGDOM OUT: NO SALES: NO ARCHIVE

The summit, to be attended by more than 100 countries, aims to identify ways to improve investigation of sexual violence and provide support for women and girls.

Hague called rape in war zones one of the “great mass crimes” of the last two centuries.

Jolie said she wanted to dedicate the conference to a rape victim she and Hague recently interviewed in Bosnia, who told them she felt so humiliated by what had happened to her she couldn’t tell her child about it.

“She felt that having had no justice for her particular crime, in her particular situation, and having seen the actual man who raped her on the streets free, she really felt abandoned by the world,” Jolie said. “This day is for her.”

Hague and Jolie are scheduled to launch an international protocol Wednesday to help strengthen prosecutions for rape in conflicts.

On Thursday Hague will host a meeting focusing on the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram, which will be attended by foreign ministers from Nigeria and neighboring African countries.

The group’s abduction of more than 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria in April has put attention on the issue of violence against women in conflict areas.

Article from: bigstory.ap.org

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