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[To support a friend who discloses sexual assault], in my opinion, I think it is necessary to be a listener. First when, we needed to be a listener, we needed to let the friend know…

I don’t know what choice I can make my friend feel better [following sexual assault]. All I can do is just be rational and tell her or him […] how to protect themselves after this…

First of all, as we all know, this [sexual assault] is something that can damage the honor of that friend. What if her future boyfriend knows about this? What if her future husband know this,…

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…

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