38 Women Reveal Sexual Assaults While Working in Iraq for Haliburton

In December, former Halliburton/KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones revealed that in 2005, she had been had been gang-raped by her co-workers while working in Baghdad. Since coming forward, 38 women have contacted Jones to say that they were also victims of sexual assault while working for Halliburton/KBR in Iraq.

Many of the women “cannot speak publicly due to arbitration agreements in their employment contracts.” Jones, speaking before Congress yesterday, said that “victims of crime perpetrated by employees of taxpayer-funded government contracts in Iraq deserve the same standard of treatment and protection governed by the same laws whether they are working in the U.S. or abroad.”

“My goal is to ensure all American civilians who become victims of violent crimes while abroad have the right to justice before a judge and jury,” Jones added.

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