Pakistan Harassment Complaint
Pakistan: Report shows harassment complaint increased significantly in past four years
The office of the Federal Ombudsperson Secretariat for Protection against Harassment (FOSPAH) has received almost 5,008 complaints in the last four years, a major spike in the number of registered cases, media reports said on Sunday.
This has been highlighted in an annual report launched by FOSPAH at the President House on Friday.
The report was launched in coordination with United Nations (UN) Women. Members of the diplomatic community and journalists were also present on the occasion, reports Dawn News.
The report stated that as few as 84 cases were registered between the years 2010-13 while 398 cases were registered between 2013-18. Between 2018-22, however, 5,008 cases were registered out of which 3,698 were filed by women and 1,310 by men, the Pakistani newspaper reported.
It further said out of the 5,008 total cases, 1,689 men and women from the government sector and 3,319 male and female applicants from the private sector registered complaints with the office of the ombudsperson.
Besides, the 275 active cases of harassment at the workplace, the report claimed that 4,733 cases were successfully closed.
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