By SANFROSSA MANYINDATHE World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA)’s Woman in News Programme has described the failure to report and manage sexual harassment in work places as alarming.According to the eight-country study, nearly one in two women has been sexually harassed at work alongside one in five gender non-conforming individuals.The eight countries that were surveyed are Botswana, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.The new research that was released on Tuesday by WAN-IFRA provided first of its kind insight into the scale of sexual harassment in African media organisations.The research which is the first phase of multi region study undertaken in partnership with City University in London, set out to collect credible information about the scale of harassment in news outlets in Africa and to establish what was being done to provide safer newsrooms.Women in News Executive Director, Melanie Walker, observed that the research highlighted lack of trust in the organisation or sometimes a […]
‘WORK-PLACE SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALARMING’
