President Obama on Monday signed into law better protections for Peace Corps volunteers, ending a long public campaign by volunteers who said the humanitarian agency did little to help victims of sexual assault.
The Kate Puzey Volunteer Protection Act of 2011 is named after a 24-year-old Georgia woman who was killed in 2009 while posted with the Peace Corps in a village in Benin, days after her confidential e-mails about a fellow teacher were mishandled. The suspects in the case have not gone to trial.
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