Jolie opens UN summit to end rape during war

"This day is for her," said Jolie. "We believe it truly is a summit like no other.

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie and British Foreign Secretary William Hague yesterday launched a four-day summit on ending rape in war, calling for an end to the "culture of impunity" and more prosecutions.

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US Secretary of State John Kerry, who will attend the conference in London on Friday, said the delegates from 117 countries wanted to "relegate sexual violence to the annals of history".
When she opened the conference, Jolie said she and Hague had discussed a woman they met in Bosnia, who was still too ashamed to tell her son she had been raped.
"This day is for her," said Jolie. "We believe it truly is a summit like no other."