Sexual harassment

The Ankara Bar Association has filed a criminal complaint against a police officer who was caught on camera groping a woman at a protest while detaining her.

A third of United Nations employees have reported experiencing sexual harassment at the world body over the last two years, according to the findings of the first-ever survey on such misconduct released Tuesday, reports AFP. 

Of the 751 members of the European Parliament, just 19 have signed up for a pilot training course on how to recognize and prevent harassment at the workplace, according to euobserver.com

The first of the courses begins on Wednesday (7 November).

A prosecutor in the Mediterranean province of Antalya has demanded the acquittal of a suspect in a sexual abuse case involving a nine-year-old girl, arguing that the girl did not "show reaction" during and after the harassment.

The #MeToo movement fighting sexual misconduct had already claimed one of Hollywood's top movie moguls in Harvey Weinstein. Now it has done the same for Leslie Moonves, one of the television industry's most powerful executives.

A 55-year-old teacher was arrested on the island of Zakynthos on Friday over charges of sexual harassment of minors and is being held at the local police station.

According to police sources, the man, a Greek national, is accused of harassing children inside and outside of school. The children reported him to their parents who in turn appealed to the authorities.

Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty to rape and sexual assault charges in a New York courtroom June 5, the next step in a high-stakes legal battle that the #MeToo movement hopes will end with the disgraced Hollywood mogul behind bars.

Twenty per cent of women in Moldova have been sexually harassed at their workplace, suggests a study published on Tuesday by the Partnership for Development Centre, an NGO based in Chisinau.

Of the women who said they had been harassed at work, four per cent said they had been asked for sex in return for certain rewards, intimidated or threatened with force.

Top Russian media have launched a rare boycott of a senior lawmaker after a parliamentary commission cleared him of sexual harassment despite claims from several journalists.

U.S. film and TV studio The Weinstein Company, whose ex-Chairman Harvey Weinstein has been accused of sexual harassment and assault, said on March 19 it filed for bankruptcy and was ending all non-disclosure agreements that may have silenced some women.