United Nations - Angelina Jolie made her debut before the most powerful organ of the United Nations as a Special Envoy for refugees on Monday and urged the Nations of the world to make a priority of the fight against rape in war.
The actress said to the Security Council that "hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of children, men and women have been raped in conflicts in our lives."
Jolie, Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees, said that the Security Council has witnessed 67 years of wars and conflicts since it was established "but the world should still take warzone rape as a serious priority".
"Sets the bar", the Council said. "If the..." Council establishes rape and sexual conflict violence as a priority become one and progress will be made. If it does not, this horror continue".
British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who chaired the meeting, stressed that "in conflicts in almost all corners of the globe, rape is used systematically and mercilessly, in the near certainty that there will be no consequences to the perpetrators."
He spoke shortly after Jolie, the Council adopted a binding resolution demanding the cessation of total and immediate of all acts of sexual violence by all parties to armed conflict. He pointed out that sexual violence can constitute a crime against humanity and an act that contributes to a genocide, called for improved monitoring of sexual violence in conflict, and urged the United Nations and donors to help survivors.
It was the widest resolution adopted by the Council on sexual violence in conflict. Hague said Britain plans to follow up by convening a global meeting during the annual meeting of the General Assembly of world leaders in September to maintain the pressure for action.
Hague said in a debate after the Ford Foundation that his main motivation to push for global action against sexual violence was the war of the 1990s in Bosnia, due in part to a counselor, but by Jolie 2011 film, "in the land of blood and honey," about former lovers that end up on opposite sides of the conflict. He said he arranged the British premiere of the film at the Foreign Ministry and has been campaigning with Jolie since then, including a visit to Congo in March, "to move the stigma and shame of the victim for the author."
"Has the time come for the world to take a stand strong and determined to make it clear that the systematic use of rape as a weapon is not acceptable in the modern world and our goal is to change the general attitude to these issues", said Hague.
Everyone talking about sexual violence in conflict and the need to punish perpetrators not victims "will change attitudes - perhaps over a period of years, but we have begun," said.
Jolie, who has traveled extensively in his role as Goodwill Ambassador, recalled several of the survivors he met - the mother of a five year old girl raped outside a police station in Goma, Eastern Congo, and a woman Syria spoke with in Jordan last week that asked to hide your name and face "because I knew that if she spoke out about the crimes against her she would be attacked another possibly murdered vézy."
"Let us be clear what we are talking about: raped and impregnated girls until their bodies are able to carry a child fistula, causing" Jolie said, referring to an injury caused by violent rapes that tear the flesh separating the bladder and the rectum, the vagina, leaving the girls cannot control his bladder or bowels.
He continued: "boys held at gunpoint and forced their mothers and sisters of sexual assault." Women raped with bottles, knives and wooden branches to cause much damage as possible. Young children and babies even dragged from their homes and raped."
Zainab Hawa Bangura, the Special Envoy of the UN on sexual violence in conflict, told the Council that two weeks ago he visited Bosnia where some 50,000 women were victims of rape and other forms of sexual violence during the war, but only a handful of authors have been processed.
Later, the Ford Foundation, said that in an African journey with beech, she visited the village of Mambasa, of Ituri in the Congo Eastern District where 11 babies 6 to 12 months of age were violated, 59 children aged 1 to 3 had been raped and 182 girls from 5 to 15 years of age had been raped.
"Would that raping a child?," asked Bangura. "It means that you want to clean the community away. It is the only explanation that can be."
Jolie pleaded with the Security Council - and countries - to implement the resolution and not let fall it.
"Comply with their commitments, debate this issue in their parliaments, mobilize people in their countries and build in all the efforts of its foreign policy," he urged. "Together, you can turn the tide of world opinion, breaking the impunity and finally put an end to this horror."
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon paid tribute to Jolie for being the voice of millions who were forced to flee their homes "and now for many survivors of rape during the war whose bodies have been used as battlefields."
He called on all leaders to stop and prosecute perpetrators "and be part of a global coalition of Champions determined to break this evil".
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