The ruthless terrorist group, ISIS, seemed to have a new enemy and it's none other than Hollywood actress-director Angelina Jolie. The 40-year-old United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) special envoy and sexual violence advocate delivered a speech before the British Parliament and condemned ISIS' rape policy.
According to the United Nations and several human rights groups, thousands of women and young girls were abducted, raped and sold into sexual slavery by ISIS when the war broke out in Iraq and Syria last summer following the terrorists' declaration of caliphate, NBC News reported.
Now, award-winning Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie is taking actions against ISIS' brutal sexual violence against women. Speaking in front of a committee at the House of Lords in England on Tuesday, Jolie said the Islamic State militants are using "rape" as a weapon of terror that's way beyond the world has seen before.
"They are dictating it as policy... beyond what we have seen before," Jolie told members of Parliament, as per BBC News. "The most important thing is to understand what it's not: it's not sexual, it's a violent, brutal terrorizing weapon and it is used unfortunately, everywhere. The most aggressive terrorist group in the world today knows what we know; knows that it is a very effective weapon, and they are using it as a centerpoint of their terror and their way of destroying communities and families, and attacking and dehumanizing."
During her poignant speech, Angelina Jolie compelled a "very strong response" to the crisis. According to Entertainment Weekly, Brad Pitt's wife, who collaborated with British foreign secretary William Hague in 2012 to launch a movement preventing sexual violence in conflict, also recounted the traumatic experiences of women and girls she met during her travels, including very young girls who had been raped and sold.
"[ISIS] are saying: 'You should do this, this is the way to build a society, we ask you to rape,'" Jolie said. "We really have to have a very strong response at this time to this particular group."
"For all of that good will, it's wonderful, but laws need to change; policies need to change; governments and leaderships need to come together and that will make the real change," Jolie continued, as quoted by New York Daily News.
The Islamic State have claim that they are allowed and even encouraged to rape young girls because they do not properly follow the Koran. The New York Times reported the barbaric practice is detailed in internal memos and how-to manuals of the terrorist group.
So, can Angelina Jolie successfully stop ISIS' ruthlessness on women?
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