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To Profit-Driven Contractors: All Rape Cases Must Go Before the Law, Period

Sady Doyle, Comment Is Free AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. October 16, 2009.
The horrifying case of Jamie Leigh Jones, who was allegedly gang raped in Iraq shows how corporate interests take priority over human life.

KBR/Haliburton Worker Raped, Locked in Shipping Container

Cara, Feministe AlterNet: War on Iraq. August 8, 2008.
"It shows that when it comes to rape cover up, KBR knows what the hell it's doing, and knows that no one will even bother trying to stop them."

Lavena Johnson Was Raped and Murdered: Then the Army Covered It Up

Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: War on Iraq. July 28, 2008.
Lavena Johnson died a horrific death at the hands of her fellow soldiers -- and then the Army called it a suicide.

U.S. Women Working in Iraq Continue to be Sexually Assaulted While Their Rapists Go Free

Karen Houppert, The Nation. April 17, 2008.
Sexual assault crimes by military contractors are going unprosecuted, not for a lack of legal tools, but a lack of will.

Halliburton Gang Rape Victim Continues to Be Denied Justice

David Swanson, After Downing Street AlterNet: PEEK. January 14, 2008.
What does one say to a young woman gang raped by men paid by us to work for a company from which our vice president profits?

Sexual Violence: An Occupational Hazard -- In Iraq and at Home

Marie Tessier, Women's Media Center. December 26, 2007.
One in five acts of nonfatal violence against women happen in the workplace.