RGK launches campaign against sexual harassment at the workplace

This campaign is being done in order to inform citizens about forms of sexual harassment in the workplace, laws condemning it, as well as examples of sexual harassment in the workplace, drawn from RGK research. Gender-based discrimination and employment in Kosovo”. 

Of the findings of this research, according to RGKA, most respondents had no knowledge whether sexual harassment in workplaces is condemned by law and what are forms of sexual harassment.

“Penal Code of the Republic of Kosovo sentences to prison up to three (3) every person who sexually molests the other person or uses any form of unwanted verbal, nonverbal or physical behavior of sexual nature, with the aim of violating dignity or violating the person's dignity, and creates an environment that is objectively frightening, hostile, degrading, or degrading. In addition to Kosovo, the same campaign will take place in five other Western Balkan countries, which are RGK partners in the initiative: Albania, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia, as well as is expected to last 11 days (18-30 October)”, the Network says.

RGK encourages all sexually harassed people in their workplaces to report sexual harassment to the Labour Inspectorate (0800 775 77) and the Kosovo Police (0800 1999).

<x0), calls for improving conditions for women's participation in the workforce. Also, RGK believes in creating dignified environments of labor and receptive environments for all social groups. This campaign is realised as part of the “initiative Fighting discrimination, improving women's rights at work”, and being supported by the European Commission and co-financed by the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida)”, said by RGK.