Post by keahgirl8 on Jun 5, 2009 17:36:10 GMT -5
I wanted to post here to tell y'all about an important cause called No Woman Left Behind. There will be a story about it tonight on 20/20. Here is something from their Facebook page that will tell you more about it.
Our campaign is simple. No Woman Left Behind was created by Sac State students to educate the community about sexual assault. No Woman Left Behind means that if you are at a party, a bar, or any other social gathering and you see someone passed out from alcohol consumption, it is your responsibility to step in.
Approximately 85% of sexual assaults involve alcohol, and most of the time people were present at the party or gathering who may have been able to intervene before the assault occurred.
www.nowomanleftbehindcampaign.org/
www.myspace.com/nwlbcampaign
www.nowomanleftbehind.blogspot.com/
The idea for No Woman Left Behind started in the Summer of 2007 after reading about the DeAnza college rape case. Several members of the De Anza college baseball team allegedly assaulted a young girl at a party. Three women from the DeAnza soccer team intervened, fighting off the players, and brought the girl to the hospital for treatment. No one at the party of over 50 people offered to help.
We were amazed that not only did a house full of people ignore a young, drunk woman locked in a room with many males, but that when it was clear there was a sexual assault situation going on, and three women broke in to intervene, the entire party still ignored the situation and gave no assistance. In fact, one woman at the party told a reporter that she saw ten people cheering baseball players who were engaging in sex with the girl. She did not interfere because “I didn’t think of it as a rape situation.”
Our campaign is simple. No Woman Left Behind was created by Sac State students to educate the community about sexual assault. No Woman Left Behind means that if you are at a party, a bar, or any other social gathering and you see someone passed out from alcohol consumption, it is your responsibility to step in.
Approximately 85% of sexual assaults involve alcohol, and most of the time people were present at the party or gathering who may have been able to intervene before the assault occurred.
www.nowomanleftbehindcampaign.org/
www.myspace.com/nwlbcampaign
www.nowomanleftbehind.blogspot.com/
The idea for No Woman Left Behind started in the Summer of 2007 after reading about the DeAnza college rape case. Several members of the De Anza college baseball team allegedly assaulted a young girl at a party. Three women from the DeAnza soccer team intervened, fighting off the players, and brought the girl to the hospital for treatment. No one at the party of over 50 people offered to help.
We were amazed that not only did a house full of people ignore a young, drunk woman locked in a room with many males, but that when it was clear there was a sexual assault situation going on, and three women broke in to intervene, the entire party still ignored the situation and gave no assistance. In fact, one woman at the party told a reporter that she saw ten people cheering baseball players who were engaging in sex with the girl. She did not interfere because “I didn’t think of it as a rape situation.”