The recruits of the British army will conduct trainings on sexual agreement within the framework of the plan to combat harassment and violence. The innovation was known to publish The Times on the basis of the meeting of the Minister of Defense of Great Britain Ben Wallace with members of the Army Council.
The head of the Ministry of Defense convened a meeting after the report on the handling of women in the Armed Forces prepared by the Parliament Commission headed by a deputy from the Conservative Party Sarah Atherton. It reported that almost two thirds of women were mockery, sexual harassment and discrimination during the service in the army.
At the same time, almost 40 percent of the 993 respondents reported that their experience with the complaints system was “extremely bad.” In total, according to information from the report, more than 20 thousand women are held at the British Army.
Following the meeting, it was decided that the Royal Military Police would conduct trainings on sexual agreement for recruits. However, the head of the General Staff General Sir Mark Carlton Smith expressed the desire to organize such trainings for all soldiers and officers. According to him, in the army there are “indigenous cultural problems” that need to be addressed.
The purpose of the trainings will not only be the eradication of offenses, but also training “consent difficulties”. In addition, the trainings will be told about the dangers of pornography as a “obscene and extreme image” of women.
“The British army is good exactly as well as the people who serve in it. The recent events revealed important problems, in the decision of which all servicemen should play,” said Wallace and Carlton Smith on the meeting.
October 22, it became known that the British military workers who served in Iraq from 2003 to 2009, avoided the punishments of 1291 charges of crimes against humanity. The soldiers were accused of mass torture, beatings and abductions, but the investigators of Great Britain closed all the cases and did not attract a single serviceman to justice.