Sexual violence in conflict was also the subject of Jolie’s directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, a film about the mass rapes that occurred during 1992-5 Bosnian war. The UN estimates that between 20,000 and 50,000 women (pdf) were raped during the conflict.

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