Military Sexual Assault Bill Months In The Making Fails In Senate
Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish is featured in this ABC News article: Protect Our Defenders, a group representing survivors...
Senate blocks Gillibrand sexual assault bill
Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish is featured in this MSNBC article: The votes took place as two sexual assault...
US Senate to vote on Kirsten Gillibrand’s military sexual assault bill
The Associated Press reports: Legislation to curb sexual assaults in the military by stripping senior commanders of their authority to...
Army’s top sex assault prosecutor suspended after assault allegation
Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish is featured in this article from Stars and Stripes: The suspension follows on the...
Circus Trial Looms Over Military Sex Assault Reform
Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish is featured in this article from VICE: The trial has become a sideshow to...
Senate shoots down military sexual assault reform bill
Al Jazeera America reports: The Senate blocked a bill Thursday that would have stripped senior U.S. military commanders of their...
STATEMENT: Protect Our Defenders Calls on President Obama to Have Military Sexual Assault Victims’ Backs After Vote Filibustered
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Everything You Need To Know About The Military Sexual Assault Bill That Passed In The Senate
BuzzFeed reports: The Senate Thursday passed a set of modest reforms to rules governing sexual assault claims in the military,...
POLITICO: When a scandal becomes a cause
Politico reports: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and supporters of her crusade to take military sexual assault cases out of the chain...
[VIDEO] US Army’s top sex assault prosecutor suspended after assault allegation
Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish is featured in this Press TV report: The US Army’s top prosecutor overseeing sexual...
Huffington Post: Top Army Sex Crime Prosecutor Under Investigation After Sexual Assault Allegations Surface
Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish is featured in this article from the Huffington Post: The allegations were made public...
Stars and Stripes: Army’s top sex assault prosecutor suspended after assault allegation
Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish is featured in this article from Stars and Stripes: The suspension follows on the...
TIME: Senate to Vote on Competing Military Sexual Assault Bills
TIME Magazine reports: The Senate will hold dueling votes today on measures from Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Claire McCaskill that...
General admits guilt on 3 counts; denies assault
The Associated Press reports: In his immaculate blue dress uniform, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair stood ramrod straight before a...
Gillibrand Reacts to Air Force Rape Case First Reported by The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast reports: The story of Airman Jane Neubauer, who was allegedly raped and then hung out to dry...
Senate votes set on sex assault bills
Politico reports: The Senate will hold two long-awaited votes Thursday on military sexual assaults, ending a chapter in the yearlong...
Can Senators Get 60 Votes to Stop Sexual Assaults in the Military?
The Daily Beast reports: Two powerful women senators, Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand, both Democrats, took the lead on one...
Los Angeles Times: Judge refuses to dismiss sexual assault charges against general
The Los Angeles Times reports: A military judge refused Tuesday to dismiss sexual assault charges against a one-star general, rejecting...
***Trigger Warning*** Spies, Lies, and Rape in the Air Force: An Undercover Agent’s Story
The Daily Beast reports: On the night of July 26, 2013, Airman First Class Jane Neubauer was on a beach...
Study: High suicide rates for soldiers in, out of war
USA Today reports: Suicide rates soared among soldiers who went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan and those who never...
System also on trial at Brig. Gen. Jeff Sinclair’s court-martial
The Fayetteville Observer reports: Two issues go on trial Tuesday at the same time, in the same courtroom, at Fort...
Marine sex-assault prosecutor accused of touching woman inappropriately
The Marine Corps Times reports: The former head of a Marine Corps legal team tasked with prosecuting sex assault cases...
Military Sex Assault Trial Showcases 2 Approaches to Prosecution
The New York Times reports: As one major battle over sexual assault in the military plays out in North Carolina...
Federal military sex crime bill will pass, says Sen. Gillibrand
The New York Daily News reports: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who has led efforts in Congress to address military sexual crimes,...
Gillibrand confident on sexual assault bill despite opposition
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) responds to Secretary Hagel’s comments on CBS’s Face the Nation regarding commander responsibility. The New...
Hagel: “More responsibility, not less” for commanders in military sexual assault cases
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel appeared on CBS News’ Face the Nation:
CBS’s Face the Nation: Gillibrand predicts passage of military sexual assault amendment
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., argues her case for taking the decision to prosecute sexual assault crimes in the military out...
[VIDEO] Sec. Hagel on CBS News Face The Nation re: sexual assault epidemic: “I don’t know what’s going on”
CBS News’ Face the Nation sits down with the Defense Secretary: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel discusses the rising number of...
Reports of sexual assault in the military climbed in FY 2013
Stars and Stripes reports: About 5,400 instances of sexual assault or “unwanted sexual contact” were reported within the U.S. military...
STATEMENT: Protect Our Defenders Calls for Complete Overhaul of Tracking System for Criminals and Sexual Predators in the Armed Forces
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 27, 2014
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Protect Our Defenders Calls For...
Sexual assaults: Army removing 588 soldiers from ‘positions of trust’
The Christian Science Monitor reports: In the wake of a review ordered by the Defense secretary to help bring down...
“Every time I tried to tell the truth…I was shut down”
MSNBC reports: Last year, a Pentagon report estimated that there were approximately 26,000 instances of unwanted sexual contact in fiscal...
[VIDEO] Congresswoman Speier on CNN about military’s sexual assault review
Congresswoman Speier was interviewed by CNN’s Carol Costello about the Army disqualifying 588 soldiers as sexual assault counselors, recruiters and...
Senate Agrees To Vote On Military Sexual Assault Bills
The Huffington Post reports: Senate Republicans relented Wednesday night and agreed to hold expedited votes on a pair of bills...
New York Times: Service Members Testify to Senate Panel on Sexual Violence
The New York Times reports: Former service members who were victims of sexual violence told a Senate panel on Wednesday...
[VIDEO] Pleas for more help for military veterans to recover from sexual assault
The Christian Science Monitor reports: When Jeremiah Arbogast was a lance corporal, he was drugged and then raped by his...
Kirsten Gillibrand lauds ‘House of Cards’
Politico reports: New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand says her efforts on addressing military sexual assault inspiring a plot point in...
[VIDEO] C-SPAN: Senate Subcommittee Hearing Examining Impact of Military Sexual Assault, Links to PTSD and Suicides
Two former military service members, Defense Department officials, and mental health professionals testified at a hearing on the relationship between...
Air Force program a rare bright spot in military’s sex assault fight
Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish is featured in this article from Stars and Stripes: Groups that advocate for sexual...
[VIDEO] Kirsten Gillibrand tries to revive debate on military sex assault bill
CBS News reports: Read more here.
[VIDEO] CNN: Sen. Gillibrand: Punishment doesn’t meet the crime in military rape, sexual assault cases
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) spoke with Jake Tapper on CNN’s The Lead: Read more here.
Stars and Stripes: Senate panel explores links between sex assault, PTSD and suicide
Stars and Stripes reports: A fellow Marine drugged and raped him but served no prison time after conviction because the...
Congressional Trauma: Gillibrand Continues Intrepid Campaign Vs. Sexual Assault in Military
The New York Daily News reports: Obviously, there are different reasons to explain each and every suicide but, somewhere in...
USA Today: Army disqualifies 588 soldiers after sexual assault review
USA Today reports: The Army has disqualified 588 soldiers as sexual assault counselors, recruiters and drill sergeants for infractions ranging...
Vogue: Shock to the System: Kirsten Gillibrand Calls for Reform After Reports of Military Rape and Misconduct
Protect Our Defenders Advocacy Committee Members Heather Pitcovich and Jessica Hinves are featured in this piece from Vogue magazine. This...
Former Defense Official, Marine Colonel calls for passage of Gillibrand military justice bill
Paul McHale is a former member of Congress (1993-99), former assistant secretary of defense (2003-09), and a retired Marine colonel...
Huffington Post: Jerry Moran, Republican Who Blocked Vote On Military Sex Assault Bill, Now Backs It
The Huffington Post reports: A day after Sen. Jerry Moran, blocked votes on bills meant to address sexual assault in...
Esquire: How One Colonel is Tackling Military Rape the Right Way
Lt. Col. Robert Bateman writes for Esquire: There are days when I am slightly inclined to think that the United...