Angelina Jolie ( UNHCR Special Envoy) at the UN Peacekeeping Ministerial 2019
Keynote address delivered by Ms. Angelina (UNHCR Special Envoy) to Member States the event UN Peacekeeping Ministerial 2019. Delivering a keynote address to the General Assembly ministerial meeting on United Nations peacekeeping, actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian, Angelina Jolie, today (29 Mar) asked for the perspective of women to be taken into consideration in peace negotiations. Jolie, who is a Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the cofounder of the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI), said, women and girls are still the majority of the victims of war. They are over half of all refugees, and the vast majority of the victims of rape and other sexual and genderbased violence.
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