INTRO: The US Secretary of State John Kerry has given a keynote speech to delegates from Africa and around the world - at the final day of a UK summit to end sexual violence in war zones...
Mr Kerry pledged a further 2.5 million dollars of funding to programmes aimed at helping children in conflict.
The week long event in London has resulted in 155 countries signing up to a declaration to better document and prevent sexual attacks in conflict.
Our UK correspondent Dan Whitehead reports...
IN: Joining forces...
OUT: DW, London.
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VO 1: Joining forces with fellow diplomats - US Secretary of State John Kerry flew in to lend his support to the End Sexual Violence in Conflict Summit here in London...
At this final session of a week long summit, the UN special envoy for refugees Angelina Jolie - who has been here all week - told delegates action is urgently needed...
CUT 1: Angelina Jolie, UN Special Envoy: "There are thousands of people living in the shadows of sexual violence at this very moment. There are conflicts where rape is openly incited. Young lives are being ruined by sexual violence in Syria, South Sudan, in the Central African Republic as we gather here...as we speak."
VO 2: Throughout the summit government representatives have met with charity workers, doctors, lawyers - all of whom work on the ground in conflict zones to stop sexual violence being used as a weapon.
Sadia Abdi from Action Aid told me it's all about responsibility...
CUT 2: Sadia Abdi from Action Aid: "I want to see that the states should be accountable for the commitment to bring justice to the perpetrators. To make sure women are part and parcel of their programmes."
VO 3: An international protocol was launched earlier this week - a comprehensive checklist which essentially outlines just what governments must do to eradicate the problem.
Zambia, Uganda, Nigeria, Chad and the DRC are among the countries which have signed up.
US Secretary of State John Kerry closed this session - saying we can and will end impunity...
CUT 3: John Kerry, US Secretary of State: "Thousands of years after rape was written into the lexicon of warfare, we know it is time to write it out and to banish sexual violence to the dark ages and the history books where it belongs. That is profoundly why now is important.
Hollywood celebrities and political heavyweights, including John Kerry, have backed this cause...
All have taken to this stage to tell governments represented here that what's been said this week must be converted into real action.
Dan Whitehead, London."
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