Director for the Centre for Gender Research, Advocacy and Document, CEGRAD, University of Cape Coast, Dr. Georgina Oduro, has hinted that the University of Cape Coast has made strides in gender and sexual harassment issues.
Speaking at a two-day sexual harassment training for members of the university’s sexual harassment committee and other stakeholders to provide committee members with knowledge and skills they need to handle issues of sexual harassment diligently and effectively, she said sexual harassment issues within the university community must be managed handled well.
“So the focus has widened and broadened. It is an opportunity for all of us including those of us at CEGRAD who are always working on the harassment issues to equally widen our knowledge on what this new policy encompasses,” she said.
Prof. Akua Opokua Britwum of the Institute of Development Studies, UCC, and a former director of CEGRAD stressed the relevance of the University’s sexual harassment policy.
She said it provides a conducive platform to address issues of sexual harassment.
To her, the occurrence of sexual harassment undermines the integrity of the university as a merit-based institution.
She, therefore, said how the policy is implemented, what goes into it, how the committee members are supported to do their work effectively to give confidence and to send the message to everybody that UCC does not condone sexual harassment and is an equal opportunity institution.”
On her part, Coordinator for Advocacy and Outreach, CEGRAD, Dr. Theresa Addai- Mununkum assured that her outfit is ready to assist all persons who have been victims of sexual harassment.
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Source: Emmanuella Ama Gyamfi/ATLFMNEWS
