Angelina Jolie has said "there is no stable future for a world in which crimes committed against women go unpunished" as she opened the UK's first academic centre on women, peace and security.
The Oscar-winning actress and special envoy for the UN high commissioner for refugees believes the centre at the London School of Economics will help to boost the global campaign for women's rights and stamp out the use of rape and sexual violence as a weapon.
"I am excited at the thought of all the students in years to come who will study in this new centre," she said at the opening on Tuesday.
"There is no stable future for a world in which crimes committed against women go unpunished.
"We need the next generation of educated youth with inquisitive minds and fresh energy, who are willing not only to sit in the classroom but to go out into the field and the courtrooms and to make a decisive difference."
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She joined former foreign secretary and cabinet minister William Hague at the launch.
The pair co-founded the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative in 2012 to bring academic expertise to focus on preventing crimes of sexual violence, holding perpetrators to account and protecting the rights of survivors.
