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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Angelina Jolie helps launch UK fight against rape in conflict zones

Angelina Jolie, who is a special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has visited conflict zones including Iraq, Darfur in Sudan and Libya during its revolutionary conflict in 2011. (AP)
Angelina Jolie, who is a special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has visited conflict zones including Iraq, Darfur in Sudan and Libya during its revolutionary conflict in 2011. (AP)
Hollywood star and United Nations envoy Angelina Jolie was to join forces with Britain’s foreign minister on Tuesday to launch a dedicated British team to combat and prevent sexual violence overseas.

A screening of Jolie’s film “In The Land Of Blood and Honey”, a love story set against the backdrop of the war in Bosnia, was to accompany the London launch.


The initiative, launched ahead of Britain’s 2013 presidency of the G8 group of industrialized nations, will be accompanied by a year-long diplomatic campaign on the issue, Foreign Secretary William Hague was to say.


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