President National Press Club, Shakeel Anjum has commended the role of organizations complying with Anti-Sexual Harassment Legislation.
He was addressing the concluding session of three-day residential training on Effective Implementation of Anti-Sexual Harassment Laws held at Mehergarh: A Center For Learning on Sunday.
Shakeel Anjum said that now that we have the laws, it is our responsibility to effectively implement them at our workplaces.
The other two special guests were Ms. Myra Imran, a senior, award winning journalist and Dr. Amir Rafiq Butt, editor Masawat. Ms. Imran, who has been a strong supporter of this work said that she was happy to be here and last time she had come to Mehergarh was as a student of this law about ten years ago.
The three-day training on effective implementation of ‘The Protection Against Harassment of Women at the Workplace Act 2010’ was attended by committee members and senior management of Sui Southern Gas, National Rural Support Program (NRSP), FINCA Microfinance Bank, COMSATS University Attock Campus and SAWERA Foundation.
During these three days, Maliha Husain, Executive Director at Mehergarh and the facilitator for this training, discussed the definition of sexual harassment, the role of employees, senior management and committee members as given in the law, in preventing sexual harassment within organizations.
She also talked about the procedure and timeline for registering and resolving a case at workplace in a lot of detail.
Mehergarh has been helping organizations comply with anti-sexual harassment laws for the past 11 years. Ms. Husain said that this was the most engaged group because all these organizations had already complied with the law and had experience of handling cases of sexual harassment.
They all wanted to take their implementation to the next level and had a lot of questions that they needed to get answers for.
