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Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish writes for the Huffington Post: On Friday of last week, the Department of Defense...

The San Francisco Chronicle editorial board today weighed in on the Pentagon’s response to rape and sexual assault in the...

CNN reports: CNN has interviewed women in all branches of the armed forces, including the Coast Guard, who tell stories...

The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports: Protect Our Defenders, a nonprofit in Burlingame, Calif., won in the small-organizations category for a...

Stars and Stripes reports: One rainy night in 1985, Navy Seaman Katherine Glover was raped while on duty at a...

Nancy Parrish writes: There’s been a lot of talk about Fox News commentator Liz Trotta’s comments that women in the...

Nancy Parrish, President of Protect Our Defenders joined the courageous plaintiffs Ariana Klay and Elle Hellmer at a press conference...

Suit cites “high tolerance for sexual predators in their ranks” and hostile environment that discourages victims of sexual assault from...

Protect Our Defenders writes: On behalf of over 500,000 women veterans who have been raped or sexually assaulted by a...

Truthout reports: In 2007, the first study of the VA’s MST program was published in the American Journal of Public...

CNN reports: …the incidence of unpunished rapes will continue and so will the damaging effects these illegal acts have on...

Examiner reports: Private Practice’ Creator Shonda Rhimes, ABC and RAINN (Rape Abuse Incest National Network) broke new ground this week...

Variety reports: An aptly infuriating expose of sexual abuse within the U.S. military, Kirby Dick’s docu “The Invisible War” calls...

Truthout reports: “A woman who signs up to protect her country is more likely to be raped by a fellow...