sexual harassment Archives

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...

Cyprus

Anti-sexual harassment code to be included in collective agreements

Jean ChristouJuly 16, 2019

By Jean ChristouJuly 16, 20190174

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...

Cyprus

Sexual harassment code to be included in collective agreements

Annette ChrysostomouJune 7, 2019

By Annette ChrysostomouJune 7, 20190502

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...

Asia

Protests erupt in India after top judge cleared of sexual harassment

Reuters News ServiceMay 7, 2019

By Reuters News ServiceMay 7, 20190107

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...

Cyprus

Allegations made of sexual harassment at Nicosia general

Evie AndreouFebruary 22, 2019

By Evie AndreouFebruary 22, 20190125

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...

Asia

Indian minister calls allegations of sexual misconduct against him “baseless”

Reuters News ServiceOctober 14, 2018October 14, 2018

By Reuters News ServiceOctober 14, 2018October 14, 2018044

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...

Cyprus

Call for harsher sentences in sexual harassment cases

Lizzy IoannidouOctober 10, 2018

By Lizzy IoannidouOctober 10, 2018087

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...

Americas

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

Reuters News ServiceSeptember 17, 2018September 17, 2018

By Reuters News ServiceSeptember 17, 2018September 17, 2018040

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...

Americas

CBS CEO Moonves resigns amid new allegations of sexual misconduct

Reuters News ServiceSeptember 10, 2018September 10, 2018

By Reuters News ServiceSeptember 10, 2018September 10, 2018043

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...

Entertainment

Asia Argento denies sexual relations with actor she paid off

Reuters News ServiceAugust 21, 2018August 21, 2018

By Reuters News ServiceAugust 21, 2018August 21, 2018038

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...

Cyprus

Code of conduct launched to stop harassment in the civil service

Evie AndreouJuly 11, 2018July 11, 2018

By Evie AndreouJuly 11, 2018July 11, 201812 59

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....

Education

MP says sexual harassment in schools not just isolated cases

Andria KadesMay 24, 2018May 24, 2018

By Andria KadesMay 24, 2018May 24, 201815 60

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...

Cyprus

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

Andria KadesMarch 28, 2018March 28, 2018

By Andria KadesMarch 28, 2018March 28, 201810 227

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...

Cyprus

Workplace sexual harassment ‘a frequent phenomenon’

George PsyllidesMarch 20, 2018March 20, 2018

By George PsyllidesMarch 20, 2018March 20, 201811 104

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...

Asia

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

Reuters News ServiceMarch 5, 2018March 5, 2018

By Reuters News ServiceMarch 5, 2018March 5, 2018061

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...

Letters

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

CM Reader's ViewFebruary 4, 2018February 3, 2018

By CM Reader's ViewFebruary 4, 2018February 3, 201813 126

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...

Europe

French feminists liken Deneuve, #Metoo critics to tiresome uncle

Reuters News ServiceJanuary 10, 2018January 11, 2018

By Reuters News ServiceJanuary 10, 2018January 11, 201811 64

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...

Opinion