Military Rape Survivors Call On Congress To Stop The Silent Epidemic

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Mission:

We honor, support, and give voice
to the brave men and women in uniform who have been raped or sexually assaulted by fellow service members. We seek to fix the military training, investigation and adjudication systems related to sexual violence, systems that often re-victimize survivors by blaming them while failing to prosecute perpetrators.

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Military Rape Survivors Call On Congress To Stop The Silent Epidemic

Posted by POD Staff, June 27th, 2012

Lauren Brown for Business Insider reports about Protect Our Defenders:

Today a group of veterans delivered letters signed by 200 military sexual assault and rape survivors to Congress urging them to pass the STOP Act. The letters were presented to Congresswoman Spier who introduced the Act to congress in November of 2011.

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