National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1.800.656.HOPE (4673).

I can't scream.  For years I thought, "What if I let go and the screams are released? What if they never stop? What if I can't stop them?"  I stayed silent for many years...

The new definition of rape is: “The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.”

According to the FBI's press release, the revisions to the Uniform Crime Report’s (UCR) definition of rape revises the previously limited definition of forcible rape, first established in 1927, which only recognized rape to be “the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will.” It thus included only forcible male penile penetration of a female vagina and excluded oral and anal penetration; rape of males; penetration of the vagina and anus with an object or body part other than the penis; rape of females by females; and non-forcible rape.

The International Criminal Tribunal of the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is the first war crimes court created by the United Nations (UN); it is the first international war crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals. For the first time, the Court has recognized and prosecuted individuals for acts that were formally dismissed as an "inconvenience of war." The ICTY has established the following precedent:

• Rape can be used as an instument of terror
• Individuals are accountable for their actions, regardless of senior position
• Leaders are responsible for mass crimes

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According to RAINN, 54% of rapes/sexual assaults are not reported to the police, according to a statistical average of the past 5 years. Those rapists, of course, never spend a day in prison. Factoring in unreported rapes, only about 3% of rapists ever serve a day in jail.