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Foreign Secretary and UNHCR Special Envoy visit Bosnia ahead of Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict.
The Foreign Secretary The Rt Hon William Hague MP, and the Special Envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Angelina Jolie, are visiting Bosnia and Herzegovina one year after their field visit to meet survivors of rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Their visit comes ten weeks ahead of the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, which they will chair in London on 10-13 June 2014.
William Hague said:
Tens of thousands of women, girls and men were raped during the war in Bosnia. We are visiting to draw the world’s attention to their search for justice, and to call for global action to end the use of rape as a weapon of war once and for all. In London in ten weeks’ time we will be asking nations around the world to make that decisive commitment, so that from Bosnia to the DRC survivors get the justice they need, and future mass rape can be prevented. We can and must change the entire global attitude to these crimes, and shatter the culture of impunity.
Angelina Jolie said:
We are here to meet victims of the war in Bosnia, female and male survivors of rape who carry a terrible burden. The use of rape as a weapon of war is one of the great injustices of our time. For too long the world has tolerated these crimes, and left survivors to struggle in the shadows. Our goal is to bring forward the voices of the survivors of these crimes and to ask the world to stand with them and against impunity.
William Hague and Angelina Jolie will meet survivors of sexual violence still seeking justice for the crimes they endured during the Bosnian war (1992-1995), as well as the NGOs working to help them. They will meet judges and prosecutors working to address the huge backlog of sexual violence cases.
They will speak at a regional military conference of ministers and senior officers, and call for militaries to take a greater role in ending sexual violence in conflict during peacekeeping missions. The Foreign Secretary will announce UK funding for groundbreaking new training in preventing sexual violence in conflict, to equip troops who will be deployed on international peacekeeping and humanitarian operations.
The Foreign Secretary will later announce new UK funding that will enable 750 young people from Britain to visit Srebrenica over the next two years through the Remembering Srebrenica programme, so that the lessons from the Bosnian conflict are never forgotten. He will also announce UK assistance for Bosnia’s path towards EU membership, in the form of new funding to foster democratic governance in Bosnia by strengthening the judiciary, civil society organisations, transparency and supporting Bosnia’s EU accession process.
William Hague and Angelina Jolie will also meet Bosnia’s Presidency, other political leaders and representatives from civil society including of the plenums set up following February’s protests, to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing Bosnia today.

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The visit to Bosnia is the latest stage of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI), a global campaign launched two years ago by William Hague and Angelina Jolie. The visit to Bosnia by the William Hague and Angelina Jolie follows their joint visit to Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in March 2013.
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Stoddart photos

Walking tall in the face of danger: The picture of woman in make-up and heels who inspired Angelina Jolie with her defiance and pride as she refused to cower to gunmen during the Balkans war

  • Photograph by Tom Stoddart shows remarkable example of the human spirit in adversity
  • It is one of 78 pictures taken by the British photojournalist now on display near London's City Hall
  • Exhibition promotes the International Committee of the Red Cross's Health Care in Danger campaign
By Abigail Fawcett

PUBLISHED: 21:46 GMT, 8 August 2012 | UPDATED: 21:46 GMT, 8 August 2012 
 
It is one of Angelina Jolie’s favourite photographs, an inspirational and iconic image of defiance and pride in the face of danger.
Taken by award-winning British photojournalist Tom Stoddart at the height of the Balkans war in a suburb of Sarajevo haunted by snipers, the woman walks tall in her heels and best clothes refusing to cower to the gunmen of Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic who daily picked-off their targets from the hills above the city.
Make-up was unobtainable in the besieged and shattered Bosnian capital, yet Meliha Vareshanovic had somehow made her own lipstick and eye-liner and would daily walk through the frontlines clutching her handbag, past the sandbagged positions and local defence forces in a remarkable example of the human spirit in adversity.


Haunting images: Sarajevans run for cover during shooting in 'Sniper Alley' in 1992, when award-winning British photojournalist Tom Stoddart immersed himself in the action at the height of the Balkans war
Haunting images: Sarajevans run for cover during shooting in 'Sniper Alley' in 1992, when award-winning British photojournalist Tom Stoddart immersed himself in the action at the height of the Balkans war
Joyful moment: Sedija Katica, who lost both legs after being hit by a grenade, plays with her five-year-old daughter, Amra, near the frontline in Sarajevo in 1994
Joyful moment: Sedija Katica, who lost both legs after being hit by a grenade, plays with her five-year-old daughter, Amra, near the frontline in Sarajevo in 1994
Tears of anguish: A mother prepares to send her confused child out of Sarajevo on a bus promised safe passage by the Serb forces during the siege in 1992
Tears of anguish: A mother prepares to send her confused child out of Sarajevo on a bus promised safe passage by the Serb forces during the siege in 1992
In a city of desperate people who braved the streets behind sniper blankets, Vareshanovic stood out among a population whose clothes and faces were scarred by war.
Such was the impact of the photograph that it is said to have ‘inspired’ Hollywood star Jolie when she was making the acclaimed and controversial film Land of Blood and Honey. A large print of the photograph hung on the wall of her suite as she edited the film.
Thousands of visitors to London are now seeing the photograph as part of a free open-air display near City Hall on the south side of the Thames, which runs throughout the Games.
It is among 78 photographs - 74 black and white, four colour - taken by Stoddart on assignment around the world over the last two decades, which form the exhibition created with the participation of the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC, to highlight their Health Care in Danger campaign.
Stoddart said: ‘The world’s nations are joined together in a wonderful sporting festival whose motto is "swifter, higher, stronger". I hope that people visiting the exhibition will leave with a greater determination to understand and help those with little access to clean water, food and medicines who, through no fault of their own, cannot run more swiftly, jump higher or be stronger.’
Bright lights: RAF Greenham Common, near Newbury, Berkshire, in December 1983, when armed guards and dogs patrolled the barbed wired perimeter fence as campaigners tried to stop the deployment of nuclear missiles
Bright lights: RAF Greenham Common, near Newbury, Berkshire, in December 1983, when armed guards and dogs patrolled the barbed wired perimeter fence as campaigners tried to stop the deployment of nuclear missiles
Defiance: A lone demonstrator rests as police form lines to protect a coking plant at Orgreave near Sheffield
Defiance: A lone demonstrator rests as police form lines to protect a coking plant at Orgreave near Sheffield. The 'Battle of Orgreave', in which up to 5,000 miners fought with police, was one of the most violent episodes of the 1984 miners' strike
Illicit trade: A pile of ivory confiscated from poachers by Kenyan Game Wardens valued at $3million. This picture was taken in Nairobi in July 1989
Illicit trade: A pile of ivory confiscated from poachers by Kenyan Game Wardens valued at $3million. This picture was taken in Nairobi in July 1989
Breaking down barriers: The first section of the Berlin Wall is pushed down by the hands of crowds of determined people on the morning of November 10, 1989
Breaking down barriers: The first section of the Berlin Wall is pushed down by the hands of crowds of determined people on the morning of November 10, 1989
Revolutionary spirit: Inmates demonstrate about poor conditions on the roof of Barlinnie Prison in Glasgow in 1990
Revolutionary spirit: Inmates demonstrate about poor conditions on the roof of Barlinnie Prison in Glasgow in 1990
Disturbing: With the Chinese athletes and gymnasts dominating much of the Olympics and topping the medal table, emotive photographs taken by Tom Stoddart of youngsters training in the 1990s are proving of particular interest to visitors
Disturbing: With the Chinese athletes and gymnasts dominating much of the Olympics and topping the medal table, emotive photographs taken by Tom Stoddart of youngsters training in the 1990s are proving of particular interest to visitors
Haunting: Promising young gymnasts are taken away from their homes - their parents can see their children as little as once a year - and put into strict training camps, sharing accommodation and working on repetition exercises for hours each day
Haunting: Promising young gymnasts are taken away from their homes - their parents can see their children as little as once a year - and put into strict training camps, sharing accommodation and working on repetition exercises for hours each day
History in the making: A supporter at a 1994 ANC rally in South Africa peers from behind a sign bearing the image of their President Nelson Mandela
History in the making: A supporter at a 1994 ANC rally in South Africa peers from behind a sign bearing the image of their President Nelson Mandela

With the Chinese athletes and gymnasts dominating much of the Olympics and topping the medal table, stunning but disturbing photographs taken by Stoddart of youngsters in training in four major cities are proving of particular interest to the 5,000 from around the world visiting the display each day.
Promising young gymnasts are taken away from their homes – their parents can see their children as little as once a year – and put into strict training camps, sharing accommodation and working on repetition exercises for hours each day.
The haunting photographs taken in the 1990s capture perfectly the lengths the training programmes go to in order to create Olympic champions – and the apparent pain the youngsters endure.
A YouTube site has been created for visitors to the display to post comments and, with the Olympics at the uppermost of the nation's thoughts, the Chinese images have drawn particular attention.
Other works attracting comment are Stoddart’s pictures of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the historic election of Nelson Mandela, the aftermath of the tsunami and the devastation of Lockerbie.
However, for many it is the images from the Balkans – Stoddart spent four years there during the conflict and was badly injured when caught in the fighting – that have resonated with visitors.
One graphic picture that stays with many is of a mother, her face stained with tears as, desperate that her child should escape Sarajevo, she reaches up to give her little boy to a stranger on a bus allowed through the front lines. She doesn’t know whether she will ever see the boy again and it is a heartbreaking moment of uncertainty with which any parent could identify.
In fact, the story had a happy ending as both survived and now live in Australia.
Aid: The International Red Cross delivers food to crowds in excess of 250,000 at the Kibumba refugee camp near Goma during the 1994 Rwandan crisis
Aid: The International Red Cross delivers food to crowds in excess of 250,000 at the Kibumba refugee camp near Goma during the 1994 Rwandan crisis
Precious moment: A rare moment of joy between siblings at the Ajiep feeding centre in southern Sudan in 1998
Precious moment: A rare moment of joy between siblings at the Ajiep feeding centre in southern Sudan in 1998


Joyful view: An eye patient smiles at becoming able to see for the first time as bandages are removed following a cataract operation in Madurai, India. This picture was taken in February 1999
Joyful view: An eye patient smiles at becoming able to see for the first time as bandages are removed following a cataract operation in Madurai, India. This picture was taken in February 1999
A child plays with pigeons among the ruins of Bhachau, India, one of the worst hit towns after the earthquake of 2001 struck the region of Gujarat
With silent dignity an old woman waits for aid to arrive at her stricken village near Anjar, Gujarat, after the earthquake of 2001
Devastation: Two pictures taken shortly after a massive earthquake hit the Gujarat region of India in 2001. A child plays with pigeons among the ruins of Bhachau (left) and an old woman waits with silent dignity for aid to arrive at her stricken village near Anjar (right)
Emotive: British Royal Marines, overcome by tiredness and grief, stop at the Khawr Az Zubayr waterway in southern Iraq in 2003 after learning that one of their comrades has been killed
Emotive: British Royal Marines, overcome by tiredness and grief, stop at the Khawr Az Zubayr waterway in southern Iraq in 2003 after learning that one of their comrades has been killed
Thirst: Sarah Yabura, 16, searches a hole for water at the Jamam refugee camp in Upper Nile State, South Sudan, in March this year
Thirst: Sarah Yabura, 16, searches a hole for water at the Jamam refugee camp in Upper Nile State, South Sudan, in March this year
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