Nobel Peace Prize nominee fights for survivors

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This rape survivor is changing the way the U.S. combats sexual assault — and she's got a Congress-passed law and Nobel Peace Prize nomination to prove it. Special thanks to Rise.

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00:00There are 1.3 billion women who are survivors of sexual violence in the world.

00:06We demand that global leaders take sexual violence seriously.

00:21Every human being deserves the opportunity to be heard.

00:25No one is powerless when we come together,

00:28and no one is invisible when we demand to be seen.

00:44I realized that I had a choice.

00:46I could accept the injustice or rewrite the law, and so I rewrote it.

00:58The Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights contains some basic, non-controversial things,

01:08like the right to have access to your own medical report,

01:12the right to have access to your own police report,

01:15the right to have your rape kit not be destroyed before the statute of limitations.

01:28Every signature matters in our petition, because in certain governments,

01:32when you hit a number of petition signatures,

01:35they, by their own constitution or rules,

01:39have to debate it on their parliament or government bodies' floor,

01:43making an actual, concrete difference.

01:46You can absolutely change the world.

01:48Take it from someone who's trying.

01:53Sexual violence does not discriminate upon gender or race.

01:59It affects all of us.

02:01For marginalized communities, there are different types of impacts.

02:06It is on an epidemic level.

02:08It is on an epidemic level.

02:10It is on an epidemic level.

02:12It is on an epidemic level.

02:14It is on an epidemic level.

02:16It is on an epidemic level.

02:18There are different types of impacts.

02:21It is on an epidemic level.

02:23Until we are able to address these invisible war zones,

02:28that is only when we can make greater strides to achieve peace on Earth.

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