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Sexual harassment of women through SMS on the rise
November 21, 2004
Bhubaneswar - There is an alarming rise in sexual harassment of women through
SMS and mobile photography, the country's largest women's body today said and
called for implementation of an effective mechanism to check this.
The All India Democratic Women's Association passed a resolution during its
four-day national conference, which ends here tomorrow, noting the new tool for
harassment of women and called for formulation of a strategy to aid the
distressed women.
"Harassment through SMS is a new phenomenon and is rising. We have received a
number of complaints where senior managers sent lewd SMSs to their junior women
colleagues. This amounts to sexual harassment of women at workplace," the AIDWA
joint secretary, U Vasuki, told a press meet here today.
There were also instances where men had captured women's images through mobile
phone cameras on the road and posted them on the pornographic or sex trade web
sites.
"The police has not been able to deal with either mobile or cyber crimes very
effectively. There needs to be a preventive mechanism for this," Kiran Moghe,
another joint secretary, said.
The meet also called for a gender sensitive national media policy to check
indecent and vulgar portrayal of women as sex objects in audio visual and print
media.
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