"Why it helps companies to think of sexual harassment as a human rights issue", 5 March 2020

[Global Business Initative] Chair, Andrea Shemberg, discusses the advantages to companies of using a human rights lens to examine risks associated with sexual harassment, [covering]:

• [Whether]...sexual harassment is a human rights issue [and]...why companies should see [it] as a human rights problem...
• What...it means to use a "human rights lens" on sexual harassment...
• [Practically],...what...a human rights lens offer[s] companies

Companies can do more to end sexual harassment, but it requires leadership. Leaders can start by recognising that framing sexual harassment as a human rights issue will enable them to better identify the risks and design measures to eradicate this serious and harmful – and very widespread - behaviour. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has called attention to harassment against people who are gay, lesbian, transgender, intersex or gender non-conforming.

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