How to protect ourselves if privacy can’t be guaranteed?
I have one question about this policy: If something happened, how do you protect the [...] personal privacy, you know? For example [...] for the survivor, after the terrible thing happened [...], if she or he asks for help [...], how do they avoid letting the others know that this girl or this boy suffered the terrible thing, you know? [...] This is very important [...], especially for the international students here in Canada. We are not the native, not the local. How to protect ourselves if privacy can’t be guaranteed? So, it’s a terrible thing.
Recommendations
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Use an app or other tool that allows students to anonymously ask questions about sexual violence and university policies against sexual violence.
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In the policy itself and in materials and presentations promoting the policy, define "confidential" and "anonymous," and explain how these concepts pertain to the policy, university-based sexual assault services, and the limits on confidentiality and anonymity.