Rape of Military Women
Rape in the Ranks
Yesterday, Mother Jones ' Tumblr posted a link to a jarring GOOD magazine infographic with the title "Female soldiers more likely to be raped by their own troops than killed by enemy fire."Military Rape - Rape in the Military - One Woman's Story of Rape in the Military
Updated February 22, 2011 Brigid Harry (not her real name) is a wife, mother, and co-owner of a small marketing communications company she runs with her husband. She earned her MBA after completing her military service and now lives in New York.
SWAN strongly supports Burke, PLLC’s litigation against the Department of Defense on behalf of Military Sexual Trauma (MST) victims, and has spoken extensively on the issues that the lawsuit raises.
Military Rape Litigation | Service Women's Action Network (SWAN)
W omen are facing widespread sexual harassment and even rape by their male comrades in the military. The threat of sexual violence against female soldiers by their male colleagues is so great that women are warned not to go out to the bathroom alone at night. This has led women to stop drinking fluids at 3:00 in the afternoon and has even led to deaths due to dehydration.
(DV) The Rape, Assault and Harassment of Women in the Military
What does it tell us that female soldiers deployed overseas stop drinking water after 7 p.m. to reduce the odds of being raped if they have to use the bathroom at night? Or that a soldier who was assaulted when she went out for a cigarette was afraid to report it for fear she would be demoted — for having gone out without her weapon? Or that, as Representative Jane Harman puts it, "a female soldier in Iraq is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire." The fight over "Don't ask, don't tell" made headlines this winter as an issue of justice and history and the social evolution of our military institutions. We've heard much less about another set of hearings in the House Armed Services Committee. Maybe that's because too many commanders still don't ask, and too many victims still won't tell, about the levels of violence endured by women in uniform.
Female Soldiers and Rape: War Within for Military Women
Rapes of women in military 'a national disgrace'
Women in the U.S. military are more likely to be raped by fellow soldiers than killed by enemy fire.
According to NPR , The BBC recently reported on The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq by Helen Benedict. This book examines the extreme difficulties female soldiers have in serving abroad.