JAKARTA - A bipartisan group of US senators agreed to a deal to renew a long-standing law to strengthen domestic violence protections. It came hours after Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie delivered a speech of support in tears.
Delivering a speech in Washington DC, Angelina Jolie said, "Here at the center of our nation's power, I can only think of all the people who are made to feel powerless by perpetrators of violence because of a system that has failed to protect them."
The Anti-Violence Against Women Act expired in late 2018 and US President Joe Biden has campaigned to renew it.
Jolie said the reason many people find it difficult to get out of violent situations is because they feel worthless. When a congress that has been too busy keeping quiet in updating the Law Against Violence Against Women for a decade, this sense of worthlessness intensifies, he said.
"You think, I think the torturer is right. I think I am not worthy," said Angelina Jolie as quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, February 10.
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