LETTER | Wait no more, act now on gender issues, PN!
Modified7 Mar 2021, 5:29 pm
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LETTER | It s been one year since Perikatan Nasional (PN) formed a government. Under their governance, we see many incompetent ministries failing to provide adequate policies and enforcement on many issues, especially gender.
In conjunction with International Women s Day, Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) would like to suggest, Wait No More, Act Now! .
We have listed the following recommendations:
Enact Sexual Harassment Act
Given the rise in the community on the awareness of acknowledging the signs of sexual harassment either verbally, visually, physically or communicated in writing or electronically, the current laws and policies that set out to protect women and sexual minorities are not enough.
The Madhya Pradesh HC initiated disciplinary hearings against District Judge Shambhoo Raghuvanshi after a junior officer accused him of sexual harassment.
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Eight years on, India’s law to prevent workplace sexual harassment is marred by poor data collection
While many women in formal employment can take advantage of the Prevention of Sexual Harassment Act, many who work in informal jobs have no such access. Representational image. | PTI
Almost 24 years after India got its first guidelines to prevent sexual harassment at the workplace and eight years after the government enacted a law for it, there are few publicly available data on how efficient these mechanisms are, an
IndiaSpend review found
In fact,
the government maintains no centralised data relating to cases of harassment of women at workplaces, the Parliament was