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The first characteristic the person should have who supports the person in trouble is the sensitivity. That you can be really sensitive, or you can really understand what the other person who’s in trouble feels…

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.

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,…

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,…

In the new policy, for people who have not much information and not much knowledge about the law and something […], what types of action should they report [as] sexual violence?

For my personal experiences, uhm, it’s not good to be alone when you are in public. Uhm, I just want to share my personal experience a little bit. When I was in a computer class…

In countries in Southeast Asia, the victims are not protected well when they report sexual violence. That is the fact. So, when any person in CBU [supports] the victims from Southeast Asia, I think I…

CBU is very diverse community that we have a large number of international students here. […] This university should understand, there is a fact that each person’s experience will be affected by many factors including,…

So, before I give my advice to [a friend who has been sexually assaulted, I would] ask myself: Can the action described be seen as a sexual violence, as defined in the new policy? And…

There is something that really pisses me off. I think the policy can be really relevant if this policy makes effort to hold the person accused accountable. Around one year ago, I don’t know if…

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