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Asia Jackson

Asia Jackson is an American actress and model. She has been featured in the television series such as Speechless, and Alone Together.

Early life

based in Los Angeles, CA. She is of African-American and Filipino descent. An Air Force brat, Asia moved from California to Mississippi when she was just two weeks old. Since then, she'd moved nine times around the world by the time she was thirteen. She spent two years of her elementary studies in Tokyo, Japan as well as Baguio City, Philippines. She discovered her passion for modeling and acting while attending college for computer science.

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1 in 3 Native American women have been raped or experienced an attempted rape, according to the findings of the Justice Department, more than twice the national average.(New York) The difficulties facing Native American women who have been raped are numerous, and include a shortage of sexual assault kits at Indian Health Service hospitals, where there is also a lack of access to birth control and sexually transmitted infection testing. There is also a shortage of nurses trained to perform rape examinations, which are generally necessary to bring cases to trial.(NY TImes) National rates of homicide victimization against Native American and Alaska Native women are second to those of their African American counterparts, but these national averages hide the extremely high rates of murder against Native American and Alaska Native women present in some counties comprised primarily of tribal lands.(Justice Reference) Certain counties have rates of murder against Native American and Alaska Native women that are ten times greater than the national average.(Justice Reference) Currently, tribal courts don't have the jurisdiction to prosecute non-tribal members for a lot of crimes like rape and, sexual assault even if they happen on tribal land.(HighCountry) This is a major issue, because non-Native American men commit the majority of assaults against Native American women.(HighCountry)

The high levels of violence against Native American women were first highlighted in 1999, when the Department of Justice released its initial report.(HighCountry)(Bureau1999) Since the report, several studies on the topic have confirmed the severity of the crisis indicating that Native Americans are 2.5 times more likely to experience sexual assault and rape than any other ethnic group in the United States.(Highcountry) Furthermore, the Violence Against Women Act (first enacted in 1994) was reauthorized in 2013, with amendments to add protections for Native American women.(HighCountry) It gave tribal nations the power to prosecute non-tribal members for domestic violence, but not other crimes like sexual assault, child abuse or rape.(HighCountry) Women on reservations say the tribal police often discourage them from reporting sexual assaults, and Indian Health Service hospitals complain they lack cameras to document injuries.(NY Times)

In 2010, UIHI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Violence Prevention to administered a poll in Seattle, Washington.(Seattle) The results indicated that 94% of Native American women had experienced some form of sexual violence. (Seattle) UIHI stated, "the 94 percent figure and other results “cannot be generalized to all urban Native women in Seattle nor generalized across all urban Native women throughout the United States because participants were predominantly low-income and homeless women.”(Seattle) Nationwide, an arrest is made in just 13 percent of the sexual assaults reported by Native American women, according to the Justice Department, compared with 35 percent for African-American women and 32 percent for white women.(NY Times) In South Dakota, Native Americans constitute ten percent of the population, but account for 40 percent of the victims of sexual assault. Alaska Natives are 15 percent of that state’s population, but add up to 61 percent of its victims of sexual assault.(NY Times) The Justice Department did not prosecute 65 percent of the rape cases on Indian reservations in 2011.(NY Times)

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