« Library List | « Human Trafficking/Exploitation

Military Sexual Violence: From Frontline to Fenceline (June 17, 2013)

Category: Human Trafficking/Exploitation

Authors Annie Isable Fukushima and Gywn Kirk examine military sexual violence in the context of military culture and ideology.  With reports of sexual assaults in the military persisting, they suggest that to understand the roots of this issue goes far beyond the assaults U.S. military women are reporting.  They discuss the history of rapes by U.S. military in Asian-Pacific countries and in war zones and the consequential stressors this creates with basing agreements in Okinawa, Korea, and the Philippines.  In the U.S., military women and their advocates are calling for policy and law reform and enforcement for sexual violence crimes in the military.  Internationally, women want an end to militarization and occupation of their countries.  They suggest that to only focus on domestic sexual violence masks similar crimes in occupied countries.  If Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama wants his military leadership to get to the root of sexual violence in the military, the entire scope of the issue must be examined.

External Website:
Institute for Policy Studies