Defination :
- Sexual Harassment includes any unwelcome sexually determined behavior (whether directly or by implication) and includes physical contact and advances, a demand or request for sexual favors, sexually colored remarks, showing pornography or any other physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct of sexual nature.
Explanation :Sexual Harassment shall include, but will not be confined to the following:
- When submission to unwelcome sexual advances, request for sexual favors an verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature are made, either explicitly or implicitly, as a term or condition for instruction, employment, participation or evaluation of a person's engagement in any of the University activity.
- When unwelcome sexual advances and verbal, non-verbal or physical conduct such as loaded comments, remarks or jokes, letters, phone calls or emails, SMS, MMS, gestures, showing of pornography, lurid stares, physical contact or molestation, stalking, sounds or display of a derogatory nature have the purpose or the effect of interfering with an individual's performance or of creating an intimidating hostile or offensive University environment.
- Where any form of sexual assaults is committed where a person uses the body or any part of it or any object as an extension of the body in relation to another person without the latter's consent or against that person's will, and
- When any such conduct as defined above is committed by a third party or outsider in relation to a member of the University's community or vice versa.
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