Mr. Danny Roberts: Sexual harassment against men also said to be on the rise in Jamaica

BY ALPHEA SAUNDERS Senior staff reporter saundersa@jamaicaobserver.com  Thursday, December 03, 2020

HEAD of the Hugh Shearer Labour Institute Danny Roberts says there is an increasing number of incidents in the society of women harassing men.

ROBERTS... there are increasing incidents
 of women harassing men

“While sexual harassment is predominantly men harassing women, there has been increasing incidents of women harassing men,” Roberts remarked. He was one of several experts at a virtual round table yesterday, discussing the issue of sexual harassment in the context of the 2019 Sexual Harassment Bill, which is now before Parliament for review.

The forum was funded by the European Union, and convened by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) under Spotlight Initiative Jamaica, to contribute to ongoing public education on the draft legislation.

Roberts also suggested that a register for repeat sex offenders should be considered among the measures to identify and root out sexual harassment.

“I have come across a number of cases in which the anecdotal stories are that this person who is being accused of sexual harassment has a history,” he said. more