Saudi Arabia criminalizes sexual harassment

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-44290312

This is an interesting idea, to impose fines and jail time sexual harrassment. The major downside to this law is the following:

"The bill, which preserves the anonymity of alleged victims, also criminalises incitement to sexual harassment, as well as falsely reporting an incident to the authorities."

I understand punishing false reports, but I have a feeling this will backfire on women who fail to prove their accusations are real, and will unintentionally punish victims. But here's the bigger problem:

"It also stipulates alleged victims cannot withdraw a complaint or fail to report an incident to the police."

This could also end up punishing the victim for not reporting an incident. What if a woman was a victim of a Harvey Weinstein-type, a powerful man able to ruin a woman's image and career for not complying with his demands? The harassment law does say it guarantees anonymity for the accusers; but I'm sure it won't be hard for perpetrators to narrow down who brought forth charges, based on the details of the trial. I can see many scenarios where this can go wrong.

But, I at least applaud SA's willingness to put forward laws making sexual harassment illegal. That's more than the U.S. has done. From the article:

"The document also creates an obligation for public and private institutions to make all necessary arrangements to prevent harassment."

Bravo.

Originally posted by @vivify
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-44290312

This is an interesting idea, to impose fines and jail time sexual harrassment. The major downside to this law is the following:

"The bill, which preserves the anonymity of alleged victims, also criminalises incitement to sexual harassment, as well as falsely reporting an incident to the authorities."

...[text shortened]... ic and private institutions to make all necessary arrangements to prevent harassment."

Bravo.

Originally posted by @quackquack
When you read the last line of the article "The kingdom has announced a ban on women's drivers will end next month, despite opposition from conservatives" everyone should be confident that the Saudi's are the model of women's rights.

Originally posted by @vivify
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-44290312

This is an interesting idea, to impose fines and jail time sexual harrassment. The major downside to this law is the following:

"The bill, which preserves the anonymity of alleged victims, also criminalises incitement to sexual harassment, as well as falsely reporting an incident to the authorities."

...[text shortened]... ic and private institutions to make all necessary arrangements to prevent harassment."

Bravo.

Originally posted by @mott-the-hoople
[b]"But, I at least applaud SA's willingness to put forward laws making sexual harassment illegal. That's more than the U.S. has done."

are you just stupid, or what do you get out of lying?[/b]

Originally posted by @vivify
Is sexual harassment illegal in the U.S.? Can I go to jail for making lewd comments about a woman's body? Can I even be fined for it?

If not, STFU.

Originally posted by @mott-the-hoople
YES! it is...

"In the United States, sexual harassment has been deemed illegal. It’s been illegal since 1964, but ever since, our country has done little in the way of taking an active role in stopping sexual harassment in the workplace. This can be seen in the lack of additional laws protecting victims of sexual harassment, and the varying laws ...[text shortened]... ssment."

https://fairygodboss.com/career-topics/sexual-harassment-laws

You blissful idiot!

Originally posted by @vivify
Is sexual harassment illegal in the U.S.? Can I go to jail for making lewd comments about a woman's body? Can I even be fined for it?

If not, STFU.

The law seems poorly constructed. The victim is punished for failing to report the incident but is also punished if unable to produce compelling evidence.

Originally posted by @shallow-blue
A person's body, please. Or women will still be the weaker gender, needing to be pampered, while men remain the refuse that can just be tossed in jail because it's worthless. Thar serms to be what Greer and Dworkin want, but a real feminist should be better than that.

Originally posted by @vivify
Your link only covers sexual harassment in the workplace. Unlike Saudi Arabia, sexual harassment is not illegal in public places.

That was easy.

Originally posted by @mott-the-hoople
from the article I posted...

"In the United States, sexual harassment has been deemed illegal. It’s been illegal since 1964, but ever since, our country has done little in the way of taking an active role in stopping sexual harassment in the workplace."

[b]read that slowly...might help[/b]