\u201cSexual harassment is a serious issue. It can blight lives. It needs action. People\u00a0 need to feel safe wherever they are and that they have the protection of the law from sexual predators\u201d<\/p>\n
Making sexual harassment unlawful must be an immediate priority as part of sweeping\u00a0 legal reforms currently taking place in the country, according to the Grenada Spotlight Initiative.<\/p>\n
At the moment, no sexual harassment law has been passed in Grenada, but there are\u00a0 significant developments in the pipeline and Spotlight is helping to spearhead change.\u00a0 For example, a national Bill (The IMPACT Justice Sexual Harassment Legislation\u00a0\u00a0Committee)\u00a0is before the Government for consideration. This resonates with Model\u00a0 CARICOM legislation on sexual harassment.<\/p>\n
Under Grenada Spotlight, the legal team of drafters and stakeholders are considering\u00a0 recommendations to:<\/p>\n
(i) Review\u00a0the Draft Model\u00a0Sexual Harassment Bill and have a bill tabled. (ii) Specifically prohibit sexual harassment at the workplace, schools and\u00a0 educational settings and provide adequate complaint mechanisms and\u00a0 protections from reprisals<\/p>\n
(iii) Criminally prohibit non-employment-related sexual harassment.<\/p>\n
These activities follow earlier work including Grenada National Organization of\u00a0 Women (GNOW) submitting its commissioned draft Sexual Harassment Bill\u00a0 commissioned for government review. This GNOW draft defined sexual harassment<\/p>\n
as: \u201cthe unwanted or unwelcome physical, verbal and non-verbal conduct of a sexual nature or based on sex, which is offensive to the person being harassed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the region, the Bahamas, Belize, Guyana,\u00a0Saint Lucia and Trinidad and\u00a0\u00a0Tobago have all taken steps to make sexual harassment a criminal offence. Now,\u00a0\u00a0according to Spotlight, it\u2019s Grenada\u2019s turn.<\/p>\n
Further notes on Spotlight Initiative\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
The European Union partnering with the United Nations launched the\u00a0Spotlight Initiative\u00a0<\/b>to\u00a0 secure political commitments and catalyze global actions aimed at eliminating violence against\u00a0 women worldwide. The initiative currently operates in\u00a0Africa, Asia,\u00a0the Caribbean, Latin\u00a0 America and the Pacific, providing funding, capacity and connection building, programmatic\u00a0 support and other forms of assistance towards its purpose of eliminating VAWG.<\/p>\n
The Grenada Spotlight Initiative \u201cis designed to focus attention, coordinate human effort, and\u00a0 strategically apply resources to the implementation of a well-conceived comprehensive national\u00a0 programme to contribute to end family violence and all forms of violence against women and in\u00a0 Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique\u201d. The initiative is organised around six pillars of\u00a0 programming, namely: (1) \u2018Legislative and Policy Frameworks\u2019, (2) \u2018Strengthening Institutions\u2019,\u00a0 (3) Prevention and Social Norms, (4) \u2018Delivery of High Quality, Essential Services (5) Data\u00a0 Availability and Capacities\u2019, and (6), \u2018Supporting Women\u2019s Movements\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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