Protection against harassment in the workplace

The Project for the Prevention of Sexual Harassment (PPSI) is concerned with information provision.

It aims at creating environment free of harassment for workingwomen.

Much has already been achieved in terms of preventing such harassment.

The Division also participated in the Inter Agency Working Group for Harassment that developed an interactive training on anti harassment for United Nations staff, to be disseminated in 2005.

States parties should include in their reports information on sexual harassment, and on measures to protect women from sexual harassment and other forms of violence or coercion in the workplace.

The issue of sexual harassment is again quite complex and sensitive.

Pressure, threats and sanctions against individuals, institutions and non governmental organizations

Moreover, his family should not be subjected to any kind of harassment.

The prevention of sexual harassment in health care is a matter for the relevant organisations.

Preventing sexual harassment in the police service has long been a priority.

The Government machinery does not routinely collect statistics on sexual harassment at the workplace.

There needed to be stronger measures to ensure equal pay for women and to combat sexual harassment in the workplace.

The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science does however pursue an overall policy on preventing sexual harassment and sexual abuse.

Reports of harassment, rape and attacks continue to be received, albeit with less frequency over the past five months.

In sum, the only plausible reason for concealing the information was to avoid inconvenience and embarrassment to the State party.

In addition to providing information and advice, the PPSI focuses on enhancing the expertise of confidential advisors.

Provisions dealing with sexual harassment and discrimination and establishing effective enforcement mechanisms are needed in the professional codes of conduct for judges and prosecutors.

One study conducted by an NGO shows sexual harassment in the workplace is widespread and no profession is immune.

The government must do more to ensure that members of the media are protected and do not face intimidation, harassment or detention as a result of carrying out their work.

It decided to withhold their names from the public domain so as to respect the suspects' right to due process and to ensure the protection of witnesses from possible harassment or intimidation.

On the other, it relates to more than just sex specific violence (sexual harassment, aggression and bullying at the work safety at school).

During my visit to the Kalma camp on 28 May, I pressed local officials to ensure that this type of harassment and intimidation would be brought to an end.

7.2 Please indicate if it contains a provision on marital rape and on sexual harassment beyond the workplace.

Information provided to parents, carers and students in secondary education states that schools must formulate a safety plan that outlines what they will do to combat sexual harassment.

The display was a photo. Men and women stripped naked, some trying to cover their genitals, others too frightened to bother, lined up in snow waiting to be shot and thrown into a ditch.

Furthermore, the Committee is concerned at the deficiencies in according protection from ill treatment or intimidation to victims to which they may be exposed as a consequence of filing a complaint or giving evidence

5. Condemns without reserve all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, wherever they occur

While the United Nations has a zero tolerance sexual harassment policy in place, the Secretary General is in the process of formulating a new, broader policy to encompass other forms of harassment.

Condemns without reserve all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, wherever they occur

In December 1997 eleven women working at the UNDP office in Islamabad filed a case against a senior member of the management on the charge of sexual harassment.

Mr. Sossa (Benin) said that although Benin had no special legal texts on sexual harassment in employment, provisions of the Criminal Code were used to counter it.

(c) The ongoing systematic and consistent harassment of members of the National League for Democracy and other opposition activists, in particular the events of May 2003, and the fact that no full and independent inquiry has been initiated despite repeated requests

Alluding in particular to Myanmar and the case of Aung San Suu Kyi, he said that all Governments should ensure that human rights defenders could operate in safety and without fear of harassment and attack.

He sought assurances that the organs of the executive, legislative and judicial branches were fully aware of the Convention and that the latter's principles were reflected in the abundant legislation recently adopted, including, for example, the 1998 Prevention of Sexual Harassment Law.

(c) The ongoing systematic and consistent harassment of members of the National League for Democracy and other opposition activists, in particular the events of May 2003, and the fact that no full and independent inquiry has been initiated despite repeated requests

(c) The ongoing systematic and consistent harassment of members of the National League for Democracy and other opposition activists, in particular the events of May 2003, and the fact that no full and independent inquiry has been initiated despite repeated requests

Discussions had taken place on whether the Bill needed to be amended to include comprehensive provisions on sexual harassment or whether they should be incorporated into a new labour and employment act.

Ms. Ziv (Israel) said that, since Israel's previous report, the scope of the Prevention of Sexual Harassment Law had been broadened to include persons performing their national service and some persons in education.

The United Nations Secretariat has also joined the United Nations Development Group in the development and implementation of an online learning programme on harassment, sexual harassment and abuse of authority, which, once available, will be mandatory for all staff.

It further rejects any denial of the Holocaust, and condemns without reservation all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, wherever they occur.

More must be done to protect certain vulnerable groups, such as single mothers and immigrant women. According to Amnesty International, they were the most frequent victims of sexual harassment, especially in the workplace.

In addition to the efforts in place for dealing with the issues of harassment and sexual misconduct, in response to the widespread allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse at some United Nations peacekeeping operations, there has been aggressive pursuit by the Organization of such cases.

The Inquiry Report on the Status of Women Employment 2003, commissioned by the National Commission on the Status of Women mentions that nearly 50 of the interviewed females working in the public sector alleged some sexual harassment.

It was also important to take measures to prevent sexual harassment, which was an attack on women's dignity and affected their ability to contribute fully to society and their work in that context she noted the Committee's general recommendation 19 on violence against women.