SEXUAL HARASSMENT

We can consider sexual abuse as any form of physical contact with or without carnal access, with contact or without physical contact made without violence or with intimidation and without consent. This abuse can include: vaginal penetration, oral, anal, caresses or explicit verbal propositions.

Sexual assault is any form of physical contact with or without carnal access, violence and without consent.

There is a difference between abuse and sexual assault, in the abuse there is no violence or intimidation.

Sexual harassment is to request favors of a sexual nature, in the workplace, teaching or service provision. It is more serious if the person who causes it takes advantage of a situation of superiority.

Harassment does not have to be of a sexual nature, however, it may include offensive comments about a person's sex. The victim and the harasser can be a man or a woman, or it can happen between people of the same sex.

Harassment is illegal when it is frequent and creates a hostile or offensive work environment, or when the results of an adverse decision at work (as, for example, when the victim of sexual harassment is dismissed or degraded). The harasser can be the victim's supervisor, a supervisor from another area, a co-worker, or someone who is not an employee of the company, such as a client or user.

Anyone can be a victim of sexual violence: children, adolescents, adults, the elderly, men, and women. Sexual abusers can be acquaintances, relatives, trusted people or strangers.

Forms of sexual violence include but are not limited to the following:
• Rape or sexual assault
• Incest
• Sexual assault by an intimate partner or spouse
• Forced sexual contact through caresses.
• Sexual harassment
• Sexual exploitation (victims of sex trafficking and prostitution)
• Showing your genitals or the naked body of another (s) without your consent
• Masturbating in public
• See someone in a private act without their knowledge or permission

Anti-discrimination legislation takes into account the protection against multiple types of discrimination, thus offering important protections for women who may be subject to harassment for various reasons at the same time, such as race and sex or sexual orientation and sex. Almost all the legislation on sexual harassment in the world prohibits discrimination based on sex.

To effectively address sexual harassment, laws must also provide broad protection to victims against harassment that may occur because of a variety of victim characteristics based on sex, such as sexual orientation and identity. or gender expression.

Legislation should include these categories regardless of whether the characteristic is real or perceived; In addition, you must expressly prohibit harassment based on the actual or perceived relationship with other people who belong to one of the included categories.