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URGENT ACTION ALERT - PLEASE FORWARD - PLEASE RESPOND!!

The U.S. Army has proposed the development of a database to track sexual
assault in the military that will violate victim privacy and will have a
chilling effect on the reporting of sexual assault.

The proposed database will include specific identifying information
including victim names, social security numbers, dates of birth, service
data, rate/rank, demographic information, along with information about the
rape, including police reports, DNA processing data, as well as medical and
counseling information from not only military but also civilian victims of
sexual assault by military personnel.

Here is what one service member had to say about the proposed database:

I was gang raped during Desert Storm and ultimately received a Medical
Retirement in 1999 following a hysterectomy and the diagnosis of PTSD. I
have been in Military Sexual Trauma therapy for 5 years and am still trying
to get my life back. Being raped violates the body and the soul. It is the
ultimate form of degradation and is a crime against humanity. Rape takes
away your power as a person. This proposal is a violation not just of
confidentiality but of basic rights. In effect, it feels like I am being
raped again and that once again I am being left powerless.


Visit http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/211 to read the rest of this
survivor's powerful words, learn more about the proposed database, and then
send a free message to the Department of Defense telling them to reject the
database and uphold victims' right to privacy.

COMMENTS FROM ADVOCATES IN THE FIELD AND/OR SURVIVORS IS PARTICULARLY
IMPORTANT!!  WE WILL PRINT THEM OUT AND HAVE THEM HAND DELIVERED.  

Thanks for your quick action on this. Please forward.

Together we can.. http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org
<http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/>  
Irene Weiser 

 

Irene Weiser
Stop Family Violence
331 W. 57th St #518
New York, NY 10019

607-539-6856
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