Posts tagged with "sexual harassment"

Indian minister calls allegations of sexual misconduct against him "baseless" Asia

Indian minister calls allegations of sexual misconduct against him "baseless"

October 14th, 20181074 By Zeba Siddiqui Indian minister M.J. Akbar described multiple allegations of sexual harassment against him as "wild and baseless" on Sunday and added he plans to take legal action against the women who have made the accusations. The comments by Akbar, 67, follow widespread calls on social media for his resignation from his post as...
Call for harsher sentences in sexual harassment cases Cyprus

Call for harsher sentences in sexual harassment cases

October 10th, 20181922 Harsher penalties are needed if we are to show zero tolerance towards sexual harassment, said children’s organisation Hope for Children on Wednesday, following the 12-month sentence imposed on a teacher found guilty of sexually harassing underage female students. Following a lengthy trial of many months, which took place behind...
Accuser of U.S. high-court nominee Kavanaugh goes public Americas

Accuser of U.S. high-court nominee Kavanaugh goes public

September 17th, 2018754 A woman who had anonymously accused President Donald Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, of sexual misconduct in the early 1980s went public on Sunday, prompting Republicans to plan further discussions about his nomination before a committee vote this week. In an interview with the Washington Post, Christine Blasey...
CBS CEO Moonves resigns amid new allegations of sexual misconduct Americas

CBS CEO Moonves resigns amid new allegations of sexual misconduct

September 10th, 2018871 Leslie Moonves, the top executive at CBS Corp since 2006 and a major figure at the broadcast network and media company for more than two decades, resigned on Sunday amid a new wave of allegations against him of sexual assault and harassment. His departure as chairman, CEO and president was confirmed by the company in a statement...
Asia Argento denies sexual relations with actor she paid off Entertainment

Asia Argento denies sexual relations with actor she paid off

August 21st, 20181217 Italian actress Asia Argento, an outspoken advocate in the movement against sexual harassment, denied on Tuesday ever having had sexual relations with Jimmy Bennett, an actor who the New York Times reported had accused her of sexual assault. The New York Times reported on Sunday that Bennett had accused Argento of sexually assaulting...
Code of conduct launched to stop harassment in the civil service Cyprus

Code of conduct launched to stop harassment in the civil service

July 11th, 20181979 Ombudswoman Maria Lottides presented on Wednesday a code of conduct her office has prepared to prevent and deal with sexual harassment within the civil service. She said at present her office is looking into eight sexual harassment cases which have been pending since 2015 and highlighted how the courts have previously taken the...
MP says sexual harassment in schools not just isolated cases   Education

MP says sexual harassment in schools not just isolated cases  

May 24th, 20182230 A primary school teacher in Limassol has been reported for allegedly sexually harassing a student but the state has been unable to do anything but transfer him to another school, according to Disy MP Efthymios Diplaros. In a press conference on Thursday, Diplaros said he sought to make public two cases he was aware of, in a bid to...
Predator priest says he’s being crucified, insists he’s innocent Cyprus

Predator priest says he’s being crucified, insists he’s innocent

March 28th, 20184023 By Andria Kades A priest who served time in prison for sexually harassing his foster daughter, Elena Frantzi, defended himself on Wednesday following a huge onslaught of disgust after the young woman was found dead in her home last week. The priest, identified as Father Stylianos, said in a radio interview that what has happened is...
Workplace sexual harassment 'a frequent phenomenon' Cyprus

Workplace sexual harassment 'a frequent phenomenon'

March 20th, 20182383 Workplace sexual harassment is a frequent phenomenon in Cyprus with most victims being women but only a small number reports the issue, the committee for gender equality in employment and vocational training said on Tuesday. The committee told a news conference that a code of conduct on sexual harassment will be implemented soon in both...
S. Korea closes exhibition by poet, 84, amid harassment claims Asia

S. Korea closes exhibition by poet, 84, amid harassment claims

March 5th, 20181415 South Korea's capital has closed an exhibition by poet Ko Un, long the country's hope for a Nobel Prize in literature, amid allegations of sexual misconduct and the government is considering removing his work from textbooks. Ko Un, 84, who denied any "habitual misconduct" in a statement made through his British publisher, first faced...
Women should assert their right not to be handled like a piece of meat Letters

Women should assert their right not to be handled like a piece of meat

February 4th, 20183148 The term feminist is as versatile as an egg. What is a feminist? A woman who believes all those who don’t think as she does are wrong? Who believes women are superior to men? Or simply that equality is what matters in status, pay and respect. Package me with the latter. Women have been split into two camps because of recent...
French feminists liken Deneuve, #Metoo critics to tiresome uncle Europe

French feminists liken Deneuve, #Metoo critics to tiresome uncle

January 10th, 20181916 Catherine Deneuve and other critics of the #Metoo movement against sexual harassment sound like "the tiresome uncle at the family dinner" who does not understand that the world is changing, leading French feminists said on Wednesday. Deneuve and 99 other women on Tuesday signed a column in the newspaper Le Monde that argued that the...
Millennials leading the way in gender politics even in Cyprus Opinion

Millennials leading the way in gender politics even in Cyprus

November 26th, 20173168 By Helen Sage The week that the Harvey Weinstein story surfaced, I immediately thought – as I guess many women did – of the personal injustices I had endured as a woman. I thought back to Saturday and Sunday evenings in Paphos on holiday with my family. On hot summer nights after dinner, families would promenade from the castle...
Hundreds join Hollywood #MeToo march against sexual abuse World

Hundreds join Hollywood #MeToo march against sexual abuse

November 13th, 20171318 Hundreds of people marched in the heart of Hollywood on Sunday to support victims of sexual assault and harassment, inspired by a social media campaign that has portrayed such abuse as a pervasive feature of American life. The #MeToo march and rally followed a relentless series of accusations by men and women who said they were...
Comedian Louis C.K. admits sexual misconduct as Hollywood cuts ties World

Comedian Louis C.K. admits sexual misconduct as Hollywood cuts ties

November 11th, 20171999 Comedian Louis C.K. admitted on Friday to engaging in sexual misconduct as recounted by several women, three of whom said he had masturbated in front of them, and television and film companies moved quickly to sever ties. "These stories are true," C.K. said in a statement. Five women detailed incidents of sexually inappropriate...
US comedian Louis C.K. latest to be accused of sexual misconduct World

US comedian Louis C.K. latest to be accused of sexual misconduct

November 10th, 20171539 By Piya Sinha-Roy Five women detailed sexual misconduct allegations against Emmy-winning comedian Louis C.K. in a New York Times report published Thursday, including three who said he had masturbated in front of them. In the New York Times article, C.K.'s publicist Lewis Kay said the comedian "is not going to answer any questions"...
May replaces defence minister in growing harassment scandal Britain

May replaces defence minister in growing harassment scandal

November 2nd, 20172136 British Prime Minister Theresa May was forced to appoint a new defence minister on Thursday after her loyal ally Michael Fallon quit in a sexual harassment scandal that has prompted calls for an end to the "locker room" culture in parliament. Just hours after Fallon resigned over past behaviour he said had fallen "below the high...
Minister to be investigated over sexual harassment allegation Britain

Minister to be investigated over sexual harassment allegation

October 30th, 20172141 Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered an investigation into a report that one of her ministers asked a female secretary to buy sex toys for him, as she tries to tackle a culture of sexual harassment in politics. Mark Garnier, a junior international trade minister, asked secretary Caroline Edmondson to buy two sex toys and he also...
Flood of sexual harassment claims seen boosting efforts to outlaw sextortion World

Flood of sexual harassment claims seen boosting efforts to outlaw sextortion

October 18th, 20172111 The torrent of stories of sexual harassment and assault in the wake of claims about Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein could help propel campaigns to make sextortion illegal, according to activists trying to change laws in the United States. Sextortion - a form of extortion that involves sexual acts or images as its currency - is not...
Restaurant manager jailed for sexual harassment of staff Crime

Restaurant manager jailed for sexual harassment of staff

July 31st, 20173637   A 55-year-old restaurant manager was sentenced to three months in prison on Monday after being found guilty for the sexual abuse of his female staff. The 55-year-old sexually harassed a number of women working as waitresses at the restaurant. The offences took place between 2013 and 2015, when he was the manager of a...
No scope for sexual harassment in the workplace Cyprus

No scope for sexual harassment in the workplace

June 28th, 20172072 The labour ministry is determined to stamp out and prevent sexual harassment in the workplace, Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou said on Wednesday. Addressing an event on the issue, Emilianidou said that her ministry remains focused on its commitment for the effective application of the law on equal treatment between men and women in...
Uber CEO orders 'urgent investigation' on sexual harassment claims World

Uber CEO orders 'urgent investigation' on sexual harassment claims

February 20th, 20171190 The chief executive of Uber Technologies Inc has ordered an "urgent investigation" into claims of sexual harassment at the ride-hailing service company made by a former employee. Susan Fowler, an engineer who left Uber in December, wrote in a blog post that she was subjected to sexual advances through a 'string of messages' over the...
Couple remanded for teenager’s abuse News in Brief

Couple remanded for teenager’s abuse

January 13th, 20172651 THE stepfather and mother of a 14-year-old girl were remanded in custody for eight days on Friday in connection with her sexual harassment. The stepfather, 48, was arrested on suspicion of sexually harassing the girl during the past four years. Her 36-year-old mother was detained after police were told that she knew about the abuse...
Man suspected of sexually harassing minor Cyprus

Man suspected of sexually harassing minor

October 27th, 20161382 A 36-year-old Paphos man was remanded in custody for six days on Thursday in connection with sexually harassing a six-year-old girl. The man was arrested on Wednesday afternoon. Reports, quoting police sources, said that the suspect has admitted the offence.
Civil servant awarded ‘moral damages’ in sexual harassment case Cyprus

Civil servant awarded ‘moral damages’ in sexual harassment case

August 29th, 20162166 Taxpayers will have to foot €22,000 in moral damages awarded to a female civil servant who sued her head of the department for sexual harassment and the state for failing to protect her after the fact. The application was filed in the Paphos labour court in 2009. It concerned offences committed in the first half of 2006. The...
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