2 thing you can do if someone is sexually abusing and harassing
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1) Stay away from them
2) take protective things like pepper spray and pocket knife with you.
3) tell ur parents or guardians that they r doing this.
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Egregious behaviour like assault and eve-teasing clearly amount to sexual harassment. But off-colour jokes, WhatsApp forwards, personal remarks, describing a woman in anatomical terms, verbal abuse in regular social interactions are all forms of sexual harassment, Shah said. “If a joke makes a woman highly uncomfortable, she’s entitled to go and register a complaint with the Internal Complaints Committee of the organisation.”
Under the law, every organisation with 10 or more employees needs to set up an Internal Complaints Committee. It must be presided over by a senior female employee of the organisation and at least one-half of the nominated members of the committee must be women, including an external member who’s preferably familiar with the law or associated with a non-profit organisation working for the causes of women.
The law entitles a victim to lodge a complaint with the ICC, which is supposed to keep it confidential. This is followed by the issuance of a notice to the respondent within seven working days of receipt of the complaint. The accused gets 10 working days to submit his reply along with the list of witnesses and documents. Thereafter, the committee is supposed to hear the victim, the individual against whom the complaint has been filed and the witnesses on board and present a report.
During the investigation, the ICC can recommend the organisation to provide certain reliefs like transfer of the aggrieved woman or respondent or granting her leave, Shah pointed out. The aggrieved woman and the respondent have the right to cross-examine all witnesses in the form of written questions and responses via the committee only. The working rules of the ICC state that the respondent shall have no right to directly cross-examine the victim or her witnesses.