Kashmala urges people to report harassment cases.

KARACHI -- Federal Ombudsperson for Protection against Harassment of Women at the Workplaces Kashmala Tariq said sexual harassment can happen anywhere but it can be effectively dealt if such incidents are reported.

She said while talking to awareness programme on women sexual harassment at workplace as a chief guest at Dow University of Health Sciences on Friday.

'If the reporting is not done, the morale of culprits will be high, we have to relieve people's fears so that morale of accused is low,' she added.

On this occasion acting vice chancellor Dow University Prof Zarnaz Wahid, Principal Dow Medical College Prof Amjad Siraj Memon and Dr Faryal Sheikh also addressed the participants.

Kashmala said there had been 330 cases reported in 2019 while 272 cases were reported in 2018.

She said there were reports of sexual harassment at workplace with women around the world and the procedure to handling it had been clarified and to handle such cases in Pakistan government made a department by the name of FOSPAH, which aim to provide support for such cases.

Further she told the students, if any incident of any kind occurs during viva, theory, practical or exam, it should be reported immediately. She said to handle such cases there should be a committee in every university, harassment committee working in Dow University of Health Sciences, further she said if you do not have faith in committee or the committee not working on your complain, they should lodge a complaint with us, these complaints can be filled by online and we provide legal assistance by contacting them by call within three minutes.

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