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STORY: ILO / GLOBAL SURVEY HARASSMENT
TRT: 3:17
SOURCE: ILO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 05 DECEMBER 2022, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
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1. Wide shots, exterior, ILO headquarters
05 DECEMBER 2022, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Manuela Tomei, Assistant Director-General for Governance, Rights and Dialogue, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“What the survey tells us is that violence and harassment at work is widespread and it affects all regions. One in five persons has experienced violence and harassment at work during their working lives. Of the three forms of violence and harassment at work, namely physical and sexual and psychological, the latter is the one which is the most widespread. 18 percent of the respondents indeed indicated that they had been subject to that type of violence and harassment. Other issues also relate to the fact that this is not one single occurrence in lives. Three out of five respondents have indeed indicated that they have experienced violence and harassment at work at least three times in their lives. So, this is a sort of common, common problem and a recurrent problem in people's working lives. And perhaps the sort of most interesting finding is that 50 percent of those who indicated having been subject to work-related violence and harassment, only 50 percent of them had told someone else about these incidents.”
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3. Med shot, ILO headquarters, exterior
05 DECEMBER 2022, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Manuela Tomei, Assistant Director-General for Governance, Rights and Dialogue, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“It also points to the fact that in workplaces and in broader society and the existing mechanisms in order to prevent and provide remedial action are not effective, are not adequate enough. And in other instances, is the actual sheer absence of such systems and laws that clearly say no to violence and harassment in the world of work, which explains why people are not forthcoming.”
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5. Wide shot, ILO headquarters, exterior
05 DECEMBER 2022, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Manuela Tomei, Assistant Director-General for Governance, Rights and Dialogue, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“Young women are more likely to report to that they have been subject to violence and harassment at work than young men. And in the case of women, women do not experience violence and harassment necessarily to the same extent and in respect of the same forms. For instance, the survey highlights that migrant women are twice as likely as non-migrant women.”
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More than one in five people (almost 23 percent) in employment have experienced violence and harassment at work, whether physical, psychological, or sexual, according to a new joint analysis, the first of its kind, by the International Labour Organization (ILO), Lloyd’s Register Foundation (LRF) and Gallup.
‘Experiences of Violence and Harassment at Work:’ A global first survey provides a sense of the extent of the problem and its different forms.
It also looks at the factors that may prevent people from talking about their experiences, including shame, guilt, or a lack of trust in institutions or because such unacceptable behaviours are seen as “normal.”
Violence and harassment at work are difficult to measure.
The report found that only half of victims worldwide had disclosed their experiences to someone else, and often only after they had suffered more than one form of violence and harassment.
The most common reasons given for non-disclosure were “waste of time” and “fear for their reputation.”
Women were more likely to share their experiences than men (60.7 percent compared to 50.1 percent).
Globally, 17.9 percent of employed men and women said they had experienced psychological violence and harassment in their working life, and 8.5 percent had faced physical violence and harassment, with more men than women experiencing this.
Of respondents, 6.3 percent reported facing sexual violence and harassment, with women being particularly exposed.
The groups most likely to be affected by different types of violence and harassment include youth, migrant workers, and wage and salaried women and men.
Young women were twice as likely as young men to have faced sexual violence and harassment, and migrant women were almost twice as likely as non-migrant women to report sexual violence and harassment.
More than three out of five victims said they had experienced violence and harassment at work multiple times, and for the majority, the most recent incident took place within the last five years.
