Angelina Jolie To Highlight The Plight Of Third World Women  Angelina Jolie |
Angelina Jolie has joined Ben Affleck and Demi Moore in an effort to highlight the plight of desperate women in Third World countries by narrating a video about a teenage Cambodian sex slave.
The Oscar winner and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador agreed to front the hard-hitting film after being moved by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof's stories about the death, mutilation and despicable discrimination against young women and teenagers in the world's poorest places.
In the video, shot by Kristof and aired on Oprah Winfrey's talk show on Tuesday (01Dec09), Jolie, whose adopted son Maddox is Cambodian, reveals the girl was kidnapped from her village when she was just 13, sold to sex slavery and forced into prostitution before she had experienced her first period.
The tragic teen in the video also revealed she was electrocuted twice a day for arguing too much, and tied up at night so she couldn't escape.
Through a translator, she revealed her virginity was sold four times before she managed to escape and she was 'stitched up three times'.
