American President Barack Obama Appeals To reject the quiet tolerance of sexual assault and to refuse to accept what’s unacceptable
Obama Says It’s On Us to Stop Sexual Assault.Due To This Tendency Of Quiet Tolerance 88% Assault Cases Goes Unreported .
, President Obama, Today at the White House, joined Vice President Biden and Americans across the country to launch the “It’s On Us” initiative — an awareness campaign to help put an end to sexual assault on college campuses.
Obama Says “It’s On Us” asks everyone — men and women across America — to make a personal commitment to step off the sidelines and be part of the solution to campus sexual assault.
one in five women has been sexually assaulted during her college years
— one in five,” the President noted. “Of those assaults, only 12 % are reported, and of those reported assaults, only a fraction of the offenders are punished.”
To work so hard to make it through the college gates only to be assaulted is “an affront to our basic humanity,” the President said.
It is on all of us to reject the quiet tolerance of sexual assault and to refuse to accept what’s unacceptable.”
As per White House Blogger The Obama administration has taken steps to help bring an end to campus sexual assault by:
Sending guidance to every school district+college+ university that receives federal funding on their legal obligations to prevent and respond to sexual assault
the White House Task Force is Created to Protect Students from Sexual Assault to work with colleges and universities
existing laws being Reviewed to make sure they adequately protect victims of sexual assault