Actress Naomie Harris has been appointed as Ambassador for Women and Children's rights for Save The Children, as the charity announces that increasing violence against women and children has been 'normalised' in many societies.

Harris took up her new role after a recent trip to South Africa, about which she said 'South Africa has one of the strongest economies in Africa yet many still live in poverty - and one in five children don't go to school. Those that do face a daily threat of violence and sexual assault - and that shocks me deeply'. Harris, who played Winnie Mandela alongside Idris Elba's Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, intends to visit more of the charity's programmes that support women and children.