- Title: On refugee day, actor Jolie sounds warning on sexual violence by military
- Date: 20th June 2017
- Summary: NAIROBI, KENYA (JUNE 20, 2017) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** ANGELINA JOLIE ARRIVING AT NEWS CONFERENCE JOLIE SITTING DOWN PEOPLE LOOKING JOLIE WALKING TO PODIUM (AUDIO OF AUDIENCE CLAPPING) BRITISH SOLDIER LISTENING (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTRESS AND SPECIAL ENVOY FOR THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES ANGELINA JOLIE SAYING: "I am visiting Kenya to mark World Refugee Day. It is a day when we at UNHCR ask everyone to stop and consider all the displaced people around the world, 65 million people, the absolute majority living in lower middle income countries dealing with conflict or crisis or economic challenges of their own." PEOPLE LOOKING KENYAN SOLDIER LISTENING (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTRESS AND SPECIAL ENVOY FOR THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES ANGELINA JOLIE SAYING: "The horror of sexual violence is compounded when it is carried out by someone in uniform who has taken an oath to protect. So it is a responsibility of those who wear uniform to take the lead now by correcting from within, setting an example and stepping forward with new commitments." VARIOUS OF PEOPLE LOOKING ON (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTRESS AND SPECIAL ENVOY FOR THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES ANGELINA JOLIE SAYING: "So I am grateful for the chance to speak to you and observe some of the training taking place here in Kenya. And I want to thank the British Peace Support Team and the International Peace Support Training centre for this opportunity." JOLIE SPEAKING TO MOTHER AND CHILD JOLIE GETTING INSIDE CAR
- Embargoed: 4th July 2017 16:32
- Keywords: refugee day Angelina Jolie Nairobi
- Location: NAIROBI, KENYA
- City: NAIROBI, KENYA
- Country: Kenya
- Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Government/Politics,Sport,United Nations
- Reuters ID: LVA0016M334G7
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- Story Text: Actor and United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Special Envoy, Angelina Jolie marked World Refugee Day on Tuesday (June 20) visiting teenaged refugee girls in Nairobi, Kenya.
Jolie met around 20 girls who fled unaccompanied or split from their parents while fleeing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Somalia, Burundi and Rwanda, UNHCR said in a statement.
During the meeting the girls told Jolie their personal stories of suffering sexual and gender-based violence and giving birth after being raped or being made pregnant.
"The horror of sexual violence is compounded when it is carried out by someone in uniform who has taken an oath to protect," Jolie said during news conference.
Jolie has called for greater effort to document and prosecute crimes of rape and sexual violence in war.
Troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo faced accusations of systematic rape in the central Kasai region this year.
And African Union and French peacekeepers have faced investigations over rape and sexual abuse in recent years.
The UNHCR says Kenya is home to nearly 491,000 refugees from neighbouring Somalia, South Sudan, DRC, Burundi and other countries in the region.
June 20 marks World Refugee Day, an occasion that draws attention to those who have been displaced around the globe. The U.N. reports that there are about 65 million people who were displaced by conflict and persecution. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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