Angelina Jolie leads summit vs sexual violence in conflict

Actress Angelina Jolie, special envoy for the UN Commissioner for Refugees, will join British Foreign Secretary William Hague and delegations from over 100 countries in a summit that aims to put an end to using rape as a tool of war. A Filipino delegation composed of key figures in the peace process in Mindanao will also participate in the summit. To raise awareness, the #TimeToAct campaign released a video animation featuring child-like drawings “to illustrate the awful reality that many children, women and men face in conflict zones.”  UN figures show that between 100,000 and 250,000 women were raped during the 3 months of genocide in 1994 in Rwanda. More than 60,000 women were raped during the civil war in Sierra Leone in 1991-2002, more than 40,000 in Liberia in 1989-2003, up to 60,000 in the former Yugoslavia in 1992-1995, and at least 200,000 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1998.

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