It was created in 2015 in accordance with the act in 2015 as amended. Our mandate is to advise the secretary of defense on investigation, prosecution of allegations of Sexual Assault and other Sexual Misconduct involving members of the armed forces. Please note that todays meeting is being transcribed. A complete written transcribe will be posted on the website. Todays meeting will begin with the dac ipads fiscal 2018 for acquittal rates of Sexual Assault in the military based on case documents from all military Sexual Assault cases closed during the fiscal year. Next, staff director will provide an overview of the Draft Department of defense report on allegations of misconstruct. This draft report was submitted to the dac ipad in fulfillment of the Defense Authorization act for fiscal year 2019. Following the overview of the report, Service Representatives involved in the report, drafting and Data Collection will appear before the committee to answer questions about the data, and the
In the field. This is live coverage on cspan2. For being here. I also thank you, we have the administration here today, especially our ambassador at large, cindy dire, thank you for being here as well. You know, more than 20 years ago, Congress Approved and president signed historic legislation that i authored known as Trafficking Victims protection act of 2000. This bipartisan landmark law created a comprehensive whole of Government Initiative that combat sex and labor trafficking in the United States and around the world. It also established dozens and dozens of new programs to protect victims, prosecute traffickers and prevent Human Trafficking in the first place, the three ps. Looking at the progress made over the years, its hard to believe the Trafficking Victims protection act was met with a serious opposition, a wall of opposition, for those in such of a problem including the media, many exaggerating, that we were talking about the prevalence of this crime not only around the wo
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Hello everybody. Im having meetings and i know youre going to be watching a couple of them. We have a lot of people here today and a loft subjects uncolluding north korea and venezuela and i think were making tremendous head way. Welcome to the council for the americas for the latest conversation on the venezuelas i had to run and get my reading glasses. So i have turned 50 years old and im not too proud to admit it. Here we are. Indeed. Indeed. But thank you everyone for coming and what promises to be a timely conversation on a country of increasing concern to all of us that of course being venezuela for those of you who are tuning in thank you for doing so. The council of the americas is an organization that for over 50 years has promoted democracy, open markets and the rule of law. Most of us associate was the hemisphere and thats absolutely true but notice the democracy comes first and the reason why is because Everything Else we try to promote in the hemisphere context is difficul
Hello everybody. Im having meetings and i know youre going to be watching a couple of them. We have a lot of people here today and a loft subjects uncolluding north korea and venezuela and i think were making tremendous head way. Welcome to the council for the americas for the latest conversation on the venezuelas i had to run and get my reading glasses. So i have turned 50 years old and im not too proud to admit it. Here we are. Indeed. Indeed. But thank you everyone for coming and what promises to be a timely conversation on a country of increasing concern to all of us that of course being venezuela for those of you who are tuning in thank you for doing so. The council of the americas is an organization that for over 50 years has promoted democracy, open markets and the rule of law. Most of us associate was the hemisphere and thats absolutely true but notice the democracy comes first and the reason why is because Everything Else we try to promote in the hemisphere context is difficul