UM student group urges action over sexual harassment claims against professor

The Star

The Universiti Malaya Feminism Club (UMFC) held a demonstration on Friday (Dec 20), urging university administrators to take firm action against a professor accused of sexual harassment.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/bdz9nust  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

Transcript

00:00The University Malaya Feminism Club, UMFC, held a demonstration on Friday, urging university

00:10administrators to take firm action against a professor accused of sexual harassment.

00:16Around 30 students and alumni members gathered outside the UM's Chancellery building.

00:23A student received nude photos allegedly from the professor and the student decided to disclose

00:36the nude photos publicly after the university didn't respond to the report made by the student.

00:45After UMFC set in and exposed this case, the professor filed one police report towards the victim

00:56to spread the nude photos publicly. And in the report, they also mentioned about UMFC defaming him.

01:04UMFC demanded for the university to revisit the memorandum they submitted last March,

01:11proposing for the creation of an Anti-Sexual Misconduct Committee and to improve campus safety policies.

01:18We will try to monitor these cases and at the same time we will keep in touch with the victim

01:25and maybe with respecting to the victim's will, maybe we will escalate these cases to the Anti-Sexual Harassment Tribunal.

01:35On Wednesday, UM issued a statement saying that the case was being investigated by the authorities

01:41and could not comment any further.

01:47For more UN videos visit www.un.org

Category

Transcript

Recommended