Tag: Harassment

Colabo, Other Japan Women’s Groups Enduring Targeted Harassment

What is Colabo? Colabo works to to help runaways and displaced teenage girls avoid or escape sexual exploitation. They perform night patrols and other outreach activities to help those in distress or unable to go home. They also manage Tsubomi Cafe, a free bus cafe and resource center p...

Introducing ‘ANVAY’, Setting the Stage for an Unprecedented Global Dialogue on Harassment & Discrimination

The aim of the dialogue is to create awareness around laws, rights, and remedies available, normalize conversations around ‘taboo’ topics, drive towards the inclusion of all irrespective of one’s gender, sexuality, disability, etc., see the performance of our laws so far, what we c...

Women in the Royal Air Force Expose a Culture of Sexual Harassment at Work

Idon’t ever remember signing an employment contract with a clause in it asking me to endure any kind of sexual harassment at work. What about you? The women of the British RAF (Royal Air Force) have found themselves in a situation where sexual harassment comes with the role, is a commo...

Sexual Harassment of A Young Man Changed Ancient Rome’s Banking Law

Over centuries, laws on banking, in particular, money lending, evolved in the ancient Roman Republic. Mostly, the change was slow and gradual, but unusual events triggered a few major abrupt changes. In this post, I look at how the sexual harassment of a young man led to a complete overhaul of th...