Actor Ben Affleck is joining Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in an effort to fight high child mortality rates across the globe. Affleck appeared with Clinton at a child survival conference Thursday at Georgetown University. Affleck is promoting his group, the Eastern Congo Initiative, and calls high death rates for children under 5 years old “abhorrent” and “unacceptable.” Affleck says, “We wouldn’t abide it in this country … and we must not abide it in the world globally with our brothers and sisters.”

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