Cypriot billionaire ordered to pay damages over sexual harassment
A court in Los Angeles has ordered billionaire Alkis David to pay €52m in damages after he was sued by a former employee of sexual...
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Six-day remand for man accused of sexual harassment
A 23-year-old was remanded by the Limassol court for six days on Wednesday on suspicion of sexually harassing a minor. Police arrested the man on...
Teacher remanded after sexual harassment claim
A teacher was arrested in Paphos and remanded into custody for eight days on Saturday after a 16-year-old girl claimed he sexually harassed her. According...
Anti-sexual harassment code to be included in collective agreements
A comprehensive code covering sexual harassment is to be added to collective agreements as they come up for renewal, Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou said on...
Sexual harassment code to be included in collective agreements
Employers and Industrialists Federation OEB and labour unions Sek and Peo have signed a code of conduct for sexual harassment in the workplace, with the...
Protests erupt in India after top judge cleared of sexual harassment
NEW DELHI, May 7 (Reuters) – Dozens of protesters gathered outside India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, a day after a panel of judges dismissed a...
Allegations made of sexual harassment at Nicosia general
Female workers at the Nicosia general hospital have threatened to deal in their own way with a colleague who they say is constantly making advances...
Indian minister calls allegations of sexual misconduct against him “baseless”
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...
Call for harsher sentences in sexual harassment cases
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...
Accuser of U.S. high-court nominee Kavanaugh goes public
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...
CBS CEO Moonves resigns amid new allegations of sexual misconduct
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...
Asia Argento denies sexual relations with actor she paid off
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...
Code of conduct launched to stop harassment in the civil service
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....
MP says sexual harassment in schools not just isolated cases
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...
Predator priest says he’s being crucified, insists he’s innocent
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...
Workplace sexual harassment ‘a frequent phenomenon’
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...
S. Korea closes exhibition by poet, 84, amid harassment claims
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...
Women should assert their right not to be handled like a piece of meat
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...
French feminists liken Deneuve, #Metoo critics to tiresome uncle
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...
Millennials leading the way in gender politics even in Cyprus
By Helen Sage The week that the Harvey Weinstein story surfaced, I immediately thought – as I guess many women did – of the personal...
