Ms. Koofi said she also added a provision prohibiting sexual harassment, calling it increasingly pervasive as more women go to work in offices.
The issue came up during public comments earlier in the day, when Julia Schemmer, a UC Riverside student and victim of sexual harassment, called for Pattiz's resignation.
"What people called sexual harassment, we called compliments," she said.
It's common for kids who experience sexual harassment -- call it whatever you want -- to hear, "it's not a big deal," and to be told that they shouldn't be "so sensitive".
Rumors, harassment, phone calls, visits, demonstrations.
Naima says that when she travelled to Kenya's Rift Valley she was subject to harassment and called names.
But, two weeks ago, after The New Yorker published the story, in which thirteen women accused Weinstein of sexual assault and harassment, Sciorra called me.
Experts say the abuse appears to be increasing as more harassment, name-calling and ridicule takes place among teenagers on the Internet and by cellphone.
Once children are out, the pollsters for the Human Rights Campaign found, they tend to be exposed to higher levels of "frequent" verbal harassment (name calling) at school than those who stay in the closet.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Three United Nations special rapporteurs have urged the Malaysian government to protect from harassment activists calling for electoral changes and to withdraw a civil suit it filed against the leaders of a group that organized a rally in April that drew thousands to the streets.
The sense of outrage that led Ms. Vallabhajosyula to start the society was also felt keenly by Jasmeen Patheja, the founder of Blank Noise, a decade-long movement against sexual harassment, who called on others through Facebook, to gather in the streets: "Painted Dented + Pledging".
