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Participant 1: Maybe it depends on the person who has been sexually assaulted. If the person is very shy and very nervous about this, maybe she will choose to disclose because she doesn’t want to…

Because all international students come from different cultures, different backgrounds, different religions, different norms, it’s good to let everyone know the Canadian response to these kinds of things.

From my personal experience, [following a sexual assault], I think I want my friend to be a good listener, to be 100% down to listen to me to talk about this, and I definitely want…

My grandparents – I think now, unlike in the past, people have been educated and everything and a lot of media have been talking about it. People keep opening up and talking about sexual violence…

Facilitator: We do have a lot of body contact with friends. Participant 1: But you don’t want strangers touching your body. You can have my approval to touch me everywhere, but if a stranger touches…

I would say, increase the degree of punishment. For example, I am not sure if that would be likely to happen, but I can think if someone commits sexual harassment or something related to that,…

I have never experienced this, but […] if I had this kind of experience, I would just want a friend so we could do things together. Like, eat meals with me, sleep with me, go…

[If a friend disclosed to me that she had been sexually assaulted], I would make sure that she is all right, I mean, mentally, or like, if they need any kind of comfort from you,…

I heard someone say there is racial discrimination here, so I may not choose to go to the police. I have a hypothesis that if we have been sexually assaulted in Canada, can we report…

The most important is how to protect the survivor, let her feel better. Not just “her”, sometimes it is a boy, right? Because […] before in the old times, maybe this happened more to girls,…

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