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What are the Policy and Legal Responses to Sexual Harassment at the UWI?
from IGDS FACT SHEETS - Issue I - Sexual Harassment and Consent
by Institute for Gender and Development Studies, St. Augustine Unit
What are the Policy and Legal Responses to Sexual Harassment at the University of the West Indies?
The University of the West Indies has a Sexual Harassment Policy for the entire regional university community, in which sexual harassment is defined as:
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“a form of misconduct which includes sexual advances, requests for sexual favours, and other similar verbal, non-verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature or based on sex, including same sex, whether it is recurrent behaviour or a single incident and is made by any person, who knows or ought reasonably to have known that such behaviour is unwanted by the person to whom the conduct is directed.”
