KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 11
Chief District Officer of Kathmandu Ghanashyam Bhusal Adhikari vowed to hold discussions on sexual and gender-based violence at the workplace among the chiefs of public offices.
At a discussion organised by the National Women Commission with stakeholders here today to identify and raise issues related to sexual and GBV at the workplace, CDO Adhikari underscored the need to bring awareness and educate all staffers on it.
Urging high-level officials andoffice chiefs, and chiefs of the ministries to raise awareness on the issues, Adhikari reaffirmed his commitment to work in this activism.
Similarly, National Women Commission's Chairperson Kamala Kumari Parajuli said that orientation programme on sexual and gender-based violence was not implemented by all agencies. Parajuli shared that the Commission was finding it inconvenient to monitor GBV related complaints since many of the complaints were sent by the same office repeatedly without disclosing names.
According to her, it was becoming difficult to deal with sexual and GBV cases since many of them would go unreported and such cases lacked proper documentation. She urged to devise a mechanism in all offices, private or public, to monitor both complainant and complaints.
Likewise, Lalitpur Metropolitan City's Women Development Division Chief Maheshwori Bista Rawal viewed that the people's representatives should pay attention to cases of sexual and GBV at workplaces. "Cases of sexual and GBV at the workplace do not figure in the priority of people's representatives."
A version of this article appears in the print on December 12, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
