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President Obama To Deliver Remarks on Campus Rape During GRAMMY's
President Barack Obama will deliver a special announcement at the GRAMMY Awards at 9:50pm ET tonight to help curb the epidemic of campus sexual assault. He will specifically call on music artists and their fans to take the "It's On Us" pledge, which is a national campaign aimed at emphasizing consent between sex partners.
The stated mission of the campaign is:
To RECOGNIZE that non-consensual sex is sexual assault.
To IDENTIFY situations in which sexual assault may occur.
To INTERVENE in situations where consent has not or cannot be given.
To CREATE an environment in which sexual assault is unacceptable and survivors are supported.
The President will underscore that 1 in 5 women are assaulted while in college and dispel the notion that rape is only "valid" if it involves force or is enacted by a stranger. In reality, 9 in 10 victims of campus rape know their attacker, according to the National Sexual Assault Resource Center.
In addition, a 2007 Campus Sexual Assault (CSA) study found that out of the 5,446 undergraduate women they interviewed, 11% were sexually assaulted while incapacitated, while only 5% experienced physically forced sexual assault.
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http://www.attn.com/stories/867/president-obama-deliver-remarks-campus-rape-during-grammys?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=stories-867
The stated mission of the campaign is:
To RECOGNIZE that non-consensual sex is sexual assault.
To IDENTIFY situations in which sexual assault may occur.
To INTERVENE in situations where consent has not or cannot be given.
To CREATE an environment in which sexual assault is unacceptable and survivors are supported.
The President will underscore that 1 in 5 women are assaulted while in college and dispel the notion that rape is only "valid" if it involves force or is enacted by a stranger. In reality, 9 in 10 victims of campus rape know their attacker, according to the National Sexual Assault Resource Center.
In addition, a 2007 Campus Sexual Assault (CSA) study found that out of the 5,446 undergraduate women they interviewed, 11% were sexually assaulted while incapacitated, while only 5% experienced physically forced sexual assault.
*snip*
http://www.attn.com/stories/867/president-obama-deliver-remarks-campus-rape-during-grammys?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=stories-867
