Intense (and brief) piece from Forbes about women as victims in war in
Africa:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/shenegotiates/2011/10/04/more-dangerous-to-be-a-woman-than-a-soldier/
You'll also notice that Forbe's cites Wikipedia's article about
micro-lending!
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This is something that's been on my mental list of articles to write.
Someday... Rape in the U.S. Military
Just searched rape U.S. military in wikipedia and just a mention of
Okinawa, not the horrific statistics.
Crime and U.S. military (safer article to start with to avoid AfD)
showed nothing
*This is something that's been on my mental list of articles to write
someday... Rape in the U.S. Military
*
Can you find sources for this article Carol? We all know that exist, but I
don't see many people talking about it.
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*Béria Lima*
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On the whole I think our military history articles aren't great at dealing
with sexual violence, on a number of dimensions.
For instance, there was a large amount of well-documented rape and sexual
mutiliation of Vietnamese women by U.S. forces in Vietnam, but the Vietnam
War article doesn't
Hey everyone,
I'm gathering a large collection of resources for this subject -
specifically United States Military and rape - from the incident in
Okinawa to Civil War period rape, to sexual assault and attack within the US
military against women and men.
If you wish to have access to the