Reported sexual assaults last year declined from 22 to 13 at Annapolis.

You are entitled to legal protection and reporting assaults to the police makes it less likely that they will occur.

Human rights investigators and medical aid workers say that so far relatively few women are reporting sexual assaults.

Women, however, are reluctant to report even serious sexual assaults to the police.

Last month the Army established a special telephone number for people to report sexual assaults and harassment.

In November 2009, there were two reported violent sexual assaults against expatriate females.

Q. Does the criminal-justice system discourage women from reporting assaults?

And a 24-hour confidential special telephone number to report sexual assaults is up and running.

These countries, in particular, typically had low levels of reporting sexual assaults.