Perspectives on responses to sexual assault

[If a friend discloses to me], I will try to explain in a calm and cool-headed way, and probably confidently as well, in the sense that when you are faced with a big problem, you…

So if I decide to report this, to take this to the committee, how do you make sure my identity remains anonymous? Because I can be right, or I can just fake it- it can…

I think listening [is the most important part of supporting a friend who discloses]. I totally agree with participant number two, cause’ at the end of the day, a person might, if they decided to…

Bringing in diverse sets of people for the committee is appreciated and essential. But, we also need to take extreme care in bringing people into the committee, because in cases where someone is going to…

I think in North Africa, we have this culture to blame the victim. It’s very important to make the victim understand that he or she isn’t the problem. They didn’t commit any mistake; so I…

By: Naraini Hooda

It does not bring any of the facts related to mental health. […] I am talking about the victim. There is no mention of that. So that is what the policy is lacking, according to…

I don’t think there’s a proper channel, you know? Like, that you can’t go to someone and, like, talk. There is a hesitancy for, like, the victim to interact, because of the – uh -…

Not everybody is open-minded, and we should think about privacy as well, so based on the mentality of the victim, we can decide what to do. I guess it would be of great help if…

[If a friend told me she had experienced sexual assault], I would usually go for mental support. As a friend, that’s the best I can do. At first, I would tell her that I am…