As rape reports on colleges campuses continue to rise, several well-known celebrities joined in on a campaign to help stop the devastating crime.
It's On Us, launched by Generation Progress and The White House in September 2014, released a powerful public service announcement stressing the importance of sexual consent.
Zoe Saldana, Minka Kelly, Jessica Szohr, HAIM, and Josh Hutcherson are among the celebrities who appear in the video titled "One Thing."
"It has to be given to you, freely," Danielle of Haim says.
"If you don't get it, you don't get it," Saldana chimes in.
While rape is an international problem as Angelina Jolie pointed out in a powerful speech, it's also a growing concern in the United States. For example, one in five women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted during college years, according to statistics.
"Of those assaults, only 12 percent are reported, and of those reported assaults, only a fraction of the offenders are punished," President Obama said in a press release.
The new video has struck a chord with many viewers.
"As a feminist, this seemed so obvious to me, yet the fact that this needs to be said speaks volumes about rape culture," one commenter wrote on YouTube.
Another said, "But salute to all the celebrities that put their time and effort into this, they have a massive following including the youth and they are leading the way in planting the seed for the kids so we can change this society or 'culture' for good in the long term."
For more information, visit: http://itsonus.org/
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