Washington Post: Breaking the Cycle of Sexual Assault in the Military
Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury creator, and Loree Sutton, Psychiatrist and Founding Director of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health...
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Air Force Sexual Assault Victim Starts the Long Road Home
Rusty Weiss in the Daily Caller reports: California Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier, who sponsored the bill, told TheDC that it...
Lackland Sex Scandal Continues to Roil Air Force: 31 female recruits accuse a dozen instructors of sexual misconduct
Karisa King and Sig Christenson in the Houston Chronicle report: In the dark morning hours before they shipped out from...
ABC News Reports on Protect Our Defenders On the Hill
Arlette Saenz for ABC News reports: Four military victims of alleged sexual assault by a fellow comrade or officer in...
Scarred But No Longer Scared
Warren Rojas for Roll Call reports about Protect Our Defenders: A cadre of sexually mistreated warriors brought their very personal...
Marine Sexual Assault In San Diego County: 76 Reports In 2011
Joanne Faryon, Patty Lane, Alison St John, and Claire Trageser for KPBS San Diego report: In 2011, there were 76...
Protect Our Defenders Delivers Letters on Capitol Hill
KTVU San Francisco reports: Victims met with San Mateo Congresswoman Jackie Speier in Washington today asking for help. These four...
Military Rape Victims Lobby for Bill with Protect Our Defenders
Steve Berg and Jacqueline Fell on KRMG News Radio reports: Sexual assault victims were in Washington D.C. Wednesday, asking lawmakers...
Military Rape Survivors Call On Congress To Stop The Silent Epidemic
Lauren Brown for Business Insider reports about Protect Our Defenders: Today a group of veterans delivered letters signed by 200...
Protect Our Defenders Brings 200 Military Sexual Assault Survivors Together to Call On Congress to Advance STOP Act
Protect Our Defenders Press Release: Washington DC – On Wednesday, Protect Our Defenders delivered letters to Congress signed by almost...
Two More Lackland Trainers Charged in Scandal
Sig Christenson for My San Antonio News reports: Two more instructors at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland were charged Tuesday in...
CBS News Reports on Lackland Air Force Base and STOP Act Legislation
Ana Werner for CBS News reports: Today survivors of military sexual assault will be lobbying with members of Congress on...
Pres. Nancy Parrish in Huffington Post: Enough Already, Pass the STOP Act
Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parris writes for the Huffington Post: There is a crisis in our military and while...
Media Advisory: Survivors to Deliver Letter to Congress In Support of STOP Act
Protect Our Defenders Media Advisory: Washington DC – On Wednesday, Protect Our Defenders will deliver letters to Congress signed by...
Chief of Naval Operations Decries Sexual Assault Epidemic
Andrew Lapin of Government Executive reports: Even as he looks ahead to the Navy’s expanded role in global security, the...
Number of Instructors Ousted at Lackland is “Extraordinary”
Sig Christiansen of San Antonio Express News reports: The Air Force said Monday that it has removed 35 instructors in...
Tighter Lackland Rules Eyed
Sig Christenson reports for the San Antonio Express-News on Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish’s reaction to the Air Force’s...
National Council of Jewish Women CEO Endorses STOP Act
Nancy K. Kaufman, the CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, has endorsed the STOP Act, targeting and sexual...
Protect Our Defenders in Boston Globe: Helping Survivors of Military Sexual Trauma
Jan Brogan in the Boston Globe reports: At ProtectOurDefenders.com, founder and activist Nancy Parrish says that treatment for MST can...
Protect Our Defenders Announces Appeal in Cioca v Rumsfeld
Today, the law firm of Susan Burke filed an appeal in the class action lawsuit Cioca v. Rumsfeld. The appeal,...