Advice and support in dealing with issues of sexualised discrimination and violence

What is sexualised discrimination and violence?

Sexualised discrimination and violence is understood to be any gender-related behaviour, that is expressed verbally, non-verbally or physically, which results in the violation of individual dignity as perceived by the person concerned.

Sexualised discrimination and violence encompasses a broad range of behaviour. This includes:

• Derogatory remarks and non-verbal communication of a sexualized nature
• Sexist representations, which reduce people to their gender
• Verbal, pictorial or electronic presentation of pornographic images
• Unwanted physical contact and importunity
• Stalking with (also indirect) sexual background
• Sexual assault and rape

The HWR Berlin has passed the Statute for realizing Gender Equality of Opportunity on 09.02.2016 in order to regulate the response procedure to incidents of sexual discrimination, harassment and violence.

The aim of these guidelines is to protect the members of the Berlin School of Economics and Law against sexual discrimination, harassment and violence. The guidelines establish the responsibilities in each case and establish the procedure following reports of sexual discrimination and violence.

• Bulletin 21/2019
• Flyer: "no means no" (englisch)