DHAKA: British foreign secretary William Hague has called for an end to rape as a weapon of war.

Speaking in Washington, where he received an award from Hillary Clinton for promoting women’s rights, Hague said the issue ‘should shame all men’.

These acts be removed ‘from the world’s arsenal of cruelty’, he added, reports the BBC.

He announced that a global summit in London in June would ask 140 nations to write action against sexual violence into military training and doctrine.

Hague said sexual violence was the last thing to be taken into account by those ending wars or rebuilding nations.

BDST: 1706 HRS, FEB 26, 2014