Pitt Supports Jolie: Brad and Angelina Campaign Against Warzone Rape in London (VIDEO)
Brad Pitt was on hand to support his fiancée Angelina Jolie on day three of the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict. in London on Thursday.
The Hollywood power couple used their star power to campaign to end sexual violence against women in war. British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who organized the four-day conference, posed for photographs alongside Pitt, 50, and Jolie, 39, before addressing the audience.
The conference was designed to raise awareness and push for more investigations into sexual violence in conflict zones. Jolie, who is a goodwill ambassador for the UN's refugee agency, also spoke at the event.
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"We are here for the nine-year-old girl in Uganda, kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery," she said in a heartfelt speech.
"We are here for the man in Bosnia, years after rape, still stigmatized, unable to earn enough money to buy bread for his family," she continued. "We are here for all the forgotten, hidden survivors who have been made to feel ashamed or been abandoned. And for the children of rape - we want the whole world to hear their stories and understand that this injustice cannot be tolerated, and that sorrow and compassion are not enough."
Also present at the event amongst government dignitaries, foreign relations experts, and global activists was George Clooney's fiancee Amal Alamuddin. The British-born human rights lawyer, who acts as an adviser to former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, sat in the audience taking notes.
In March, Jolie was moved to tears while speaking to rape victims of the Bosnian War in Bosnia. The "Maleficent" star along with Hague applauded Bosnia's decision to include rape prevention in military training while campaigning to end war rape.
"The use of rape as a weapon of war is one of the most harrowing and savage of these crimes against civilians," an emotional Jolie told a conference in Sarajevo reported independent.co.uk.
"This is rape so brutal, with such extreme violence, that it is even hard to talk about it," she said.
According to reports an estimated 20,000 women, predominantly Muslim, were raped during Bosnia's interethnic war during 1990s, however, only 33 people have been convicted for the crimes.
Jolie and Hague launched a global initiative in recent years that was partly inspired by the actress' film "In the Land of Blood and Honey," which explores sexual violence inflicted on a woman during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. The campaign was designed to fight sexual violence in war, end impunity for the perpetrators and provide support for rape victims.
