Back in March, US President Barack Obama signed a law to better protect Native American women from men who are not members of Indian tribes. According to the US Justice Department, non-Indian men commit 86 percent of the sexual assaults against Native American women. In the past, if an assault took place on Native American territory, those men were immune from prosecution by tribal authorities.Get the Story:
Rapes of Native American women 'unprosecuted' (Al Jazeera 10/16)
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