Anti-Sexual Harassment

What is Sexual Harassment?
Sexual harassment is uninvited behavior of a sexual nature that is offensive, embarrassing, intimidating or humiliating and may affect a worker's job performance, health, career and livelihood.

What isn't Sexual harassment?
Sexual harassment is not consensual sexual behavior between two people who are attracted to each other. Harassment has nothing to do with mutual attraction of friendship.
Courtesy: Sexual Harassment at workplace in Nepal – ILO
Research team: FWLD

Sexual harassment is globally experienced by women, girls, children and even men and boys and this is a problem that has been subsisting especially in a country like Nepal since time unknown. There are women, girls and children who are subjected to sexual harassment be it in their offices, schools, colleges, in public places and even in law courts and their own homes, in Nepal . The attitude continues to ironically blame a woman when she is sexually harassed. Instead of punishing the harasser, the women's character is assassinated and is blamed for being seductive, vulgar or an exhibitionist that allures and instigates the harasser. There have been multiple cases when a woman is sexually harassed but due to the fear of embarrassment, retaliation and insult she is forced to conceal her state, no matter how affected and distressed she could be. These acts are extremely formidable for anyone to handle as there is no law against sexual harassment in Nepal . Our concern is: Sexual Harassment should be punishable by law. FWLD wants to play a considerable role in striving to enforce such laws that deals with sexual harassment. Sexual harassment will continue unless there is a punishable law and so will the frustration and disturbance of the tortured women, girls and children.

Executive Summary of Sexual Harassment Study  (in pdf)

Sexual Harassment Brochure  (in pdf)