As a leading Hollywood actress, Angelina Jolie can raise publicity and awareness with the snap of her fingers.
And after recently going public about her double mastectomy - and encouraging women across the world to get regular check ups - Jolie put another worthy matter before the world stage on Monday in her capacity as a U.N ambassador.
The 38-year-old actress made her debut before the U.N.'s most powerful body as a special envoy for refugees - and urged the world's nations to make the fight against rape in war a top priority.
She told the Security Council that 'hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of women, children and men have been raped in conflicts in our lifetimes'.
Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, said the Security Council has witnessed 67 years of wars and conflict since it was established 'but the world has yet to take up warzone rape as a serious priority.'
'You set the bar,' she told the council. '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.'
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source:dailymail
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