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In the long run, the US and EU should support civil society organizations in pressing Moldova’s government to guarantee more equitable distribution of television time, to stop police harassment of opposition political leaders and workers as well as journalists, to reform the police and end the ruling party’s abuse of state institutions, and to allow all political parties more opportunity to inspect election rolls and monitor polling stations.
If the CEO of American Apparel couldn’t get away with such harassment, why should the president of the United States?
The one law that is rarely applied is article 144 of the criminal code, which aims to protect journalists from harassment and other actions that obstruct their “lawful professional activities.”
The deeper truth underlying the protests can be found on blogs, where young Indian men and women bemoan the fact that travel guidebooks routinely warn women about pervasive sexual harassment in India, and advise them to move around in groups.
In addition, of those respondents who were employed, 90% reported some form of mistreatment at work, such as harassment, ridicule, inappropriate sharing of information about them by supervisors or co-workers, or trouble with access to toilets.
When confronted by it, she rashly conducted a Twitter poll, in an attempt to secure her followers’ support against the harassment; a startling 43% supported the trolls instead.
To enable women to meet their full potential as military assets, persistent discrimination and other challenges – related, for example, to sexual harassment, health, and work-life balance – must be addressed.
Sexual harassment can cost a woman her reputation, and sometimes even her life.
These may include hiring women from foreign militaries to train new recruits, allowing women and men to interact, implementing protections to encourage reporting of sexual harassment, amending rigid patriarchal structures to allow flexible work hours, and strategically deploying women, particularly for peace-keeping missions.
In almost every part of the world, reports emerge on a daily basis of Christian communities falling victim to harassment and persecution.
Unofficial house churches are especially vulnerable to official harassment or raids by the authorities.
In particular, despite more than three decades of legal reform in China, Chen had precious little recourse to fight harassment and house arrest at the hands of the Chinese authorities.
Stop building fences – even if they do make good neighbors -- and cease the harassment of undocumented people in the US.
Recent steps – including the closure of the United States Agency for International Development, a requirement that foreign-funded noncommercial institutions register as “foreign agents,” termination of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, and harassment of foreign civic and philanthropic entities – undermine the progress that US-Russian partnerships have enabled.
According to the Obama administration, there was a spike in harassment of US diplomatic personnel in Russia.
Officially, they are deemed “foreign agents” and have been subject to so much legal harassment that it is almost impossible for them to function.
For example, convicts could be intentionally exposed to public harassment through cleanup assignments, and their families, who have not committed crimes, could be evicted from their state-subsidized housing.
Famous around the world for both his writings and his struggle against communism, he endured ceaseless harassment, including imprisonment for five years at the beginning of the 1980s.
These include threats, intimidation, detention, sexual harassment, and violent attacks by governments, corporations, security forces, or other third parties with a stake in where aid funds end up.
My alma mater, Yale, used anonymity in reporting of sex harassment and rape to sweep sex-crime incidents and repeat offenders’ records under the rug for two decades, thereby protecting its own interest in preventing systematic investigation.
Of course, actions like sexual harassment or assault should inform our assessment of a leader.
Al Jazeera journalists are household names; they also suffer more harassment, imprisonment, and fatalities than their colleagues at other major news organizations.
Such harassment is the everyday stuff of journalism in what Vladimir Putin calls the “post-Soviet space.”
Building a Gender-Inclusive WorkplaceNEW YORK – The wave of high-profile sexual harassment cases that began with revelations from Hollywood is having a profound impact on far less glamorous work environments.
Companies have traditionally taken a box-ticking approach to addressing harassment, using written policies and trainings in a feeble bid to encourage respect.
The willingness of celebrities like Salma Hayek, Rose McGowan, and Reese Witherspoon to share their stories of sexual harassment empowered women from many walks of life to speak out, too.
I do not believe that corruption is coming to light just because law enforcement is somehow better, or because citizens, like the presidential staff who accused President Katsav of sexual crimes and harassment, are more courageous.
On one critical issue – sexual harassment and rape – India has moved far into the lead.
But Indian activists often refer to the case of another Bhanwari Devi, a social worker who was gang-raped in 1992, as an early turning point, for it resulted in 1997 in the Indian Supreme Court’s Vishaka judgment, which proposed guidelines to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.
With pressure mounting for legislative action, India last year finally adopted a law banning workplace sexual harassment.
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