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UK stars say time's Up for sexual harassment and abuse

Film actress Emma Watson donates 1M dollars to anti-harassment campaign. [Photo: Courtesy]

Film actresses Kate Winslet and Emma Watson joined around 200 British stars in demanding an end to sexual harassment and abuse, in an open letter published Sunday ahead of the Bafta film awards.

Signatories including Emma Thompson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Keira Knightley and Saoirse Ronan, expressed solidarity with the Time's Up movement in the United States and called for donations to a new "justice and equality fund" for victims.

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