The University of the West Indies (The UWI) is an equal opportunity institution. Accordingly, sexual harassment, an aspect of gender discrimination and of violence, is expressly prohibited and will not be tolerated. The UWI is committed to ensuring and maintaining a safe and healthy educational and work enviroment which is free from sexual harassment.
The UWI will reflect this policy of non-tolerance of sexual harassment in the oversight of its students, employees, persons under its independent service arrangements, other persons who provide academic services to the University, as well as to its contractual agreements, independent service arrangements and its inter-action with members of the public.
According to the Sexual Harassment (Protection and Prevention) Act 2021, sexual harassment is defined as “any conduct or behaviour that constitutes unwanted and unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature by one person toward another”.
Remember, acts or comments of a sexual nature, not intended to harass, can constitute sexual harassment if another person feels uncomfortable with such subjects. Claiming to not understand or failing to know that an act is harassing, does not mean that it is not in fact, sexual harassment.
A sexual harassment complaint may be initiated via telephone, in-person (i.e. drop in/by appointment) or via a third party who was not directly involved with the sexual advance being reported. Communications about an incident (s) of sexual harassment can be informal (consultation) or formal (complaint) based on the wishes of the reporting party. All sexual harassment complaints shall be confidential. The procedures for each of these avenues are outlined in the Trauma – informed sexual harassment complaints protocol.
An abbreviated complaints procedure is provided here. Your Student Sexual Harassment Peer Advisor (SSHPA), Faculty Sexual Harassment Focal Point (SHFP) or the Sexual Harassment Complaints Coordinator (SHCC) in the Office of the Campus Registrar, are all available to assist you in making a confidential complaint.
Any member of the University Community may make an allegation of sexual harassment to a Sexual Harassment Focal Point (SHFP), the Sexual Harassment Complaints Coordinator (SHCC), or directly to the Campus Registrar, stating that he or she believes that sexual harassment has occurred either against himself or herself or with respect to another member of the University Community. An allegation of sexual harassment may be filed within six years of the occurrence of the alleged incident of sexual harassment.
A person who knowingly makes a false sexual harassment complaint to The University may be subject to disciplinary proceddings in accordance with established University procedures for misconduct. A person who knowingly makes a false complaint before the Tribunal under Section 27 of the 2021 Act commits an offence. A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and shall, on summary conviction in a Parish Court, be liable to a fine not exceeding one million dollars or, in default of payment therof, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.
To report a complaint: https://www.mona.uwi.edu/sexual-harassment/report-complaint
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