American Indian Women Experience 2 1/2 Times More Sexual Violence Than Against Other American Women
According to the Billings Gazette,
“More than one in three American Indian women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetimes.
And 80 percent of the assaults will be committed by non-Indians.
These startling statistics, based on U.S. Department of Justice statistics, have caught the attention of a United Nations committee meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.
“American Indian and Alaska Native women experience sexual violence at 2½ times the rate of all other women in the United States,” reads the report to the U.N.”
“”The statistics are so horrendous and so shocking that CERD (the U.N. committee) wants to hear about it,” said Lucy R. Simpson, a staff attorney with the Indian Law Resource Center. “This is just based on crimes that have been reported.”
The situation is believed to be much worse because rapes frequently go unreported, she said.
“Report of the Working Group on Indigenous Peoples,” the report submitted to the U.N., blames the violence on jurisdictional restrictions that prevent Indian nations from prosecuting non-Indians.”
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