more info here Some senior design students at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend Indiana have decided to raise awareness of the link between sexual assault and alcohol in a creative way. You can read their whole story HERE. The students decided on this campaign after the abnormally high number of campus alerts for sexual assault this past semester. The...

"Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole today announced the release of a new Department of Justice policy for employees addressing the effects of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the workplace. The Department of Justice has long been at the forefront of addressing domestic violence in the workplace. 'With approximately 114,000 employees in 53 components, the Justice Department is a diverse...

"Despite a 2012 law designed to standardize Connecticut colleges’ handling of sexual assaults on campus, victims are still not getting the help they need. That’s the takeaway from an hours long hearing held Wednesday, during which four University of Connecticut students who are suing the school for its handling of their sexual assault complaints shared their stories with legislators. The students reported...

Statistics show that one out of four women experience intimate partner assaults, and worldwide the numbers are one in three. 30% of all homicides in the United States are committed by a domestic partner. That is why on television shows you always see the spouse as the number one suspect in a murder investigation. "In the United States it has become so...

"Domestic violence and sexual assault is a sad trend that doesn’t seem to be going away. There have been numerous high-profile cases in the Milwaukee area recently." Read the whole story HERE. Domestic violence and sexual assault against women is not just a problem in Milwaukee. It is a problem throughout the United States and throughout the world. It has been estimated...

This is a very comprehensive, thoughtful article about whether or not colleges can actually prevent sexual assault. "Drinking puts you at risk of sexual assault... if you are around a rapist. Of course, it's easy to focus on alcohol as a cause of the campus rape epidemic. Doing so is manageable, it's easy to deal with, and it's gives us a concrete...