SMU

Participant 1: I would actually be more worried about my parents saying too much, or worrying too much if I told them the situation. So, I think this policy actually helps me on this point…

It does say that we need to submit it online, and that makes me feel like it would be nice to have people reaching out to you, rather than it being in an online forum.…

The first thing I would do [if a friend told me she had been sexually assaulted] is to support her. I would tell her that, “Whatever happens, I’m always here to be with you.” If…

Participant 1: They need to be clear about how they deal with the person who performs the sexual assault. They have to be transparent about it. Participant 2: Exactly, like, […] hints as to how…

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…

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…

Unfortunately, our culture sometimes has the tendency to blame the victim, blaming it on how they were dressed. Probably the biggest thing they say is, “You were dressing too inappropriately, so you were asking for…

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…

In our culture, sexual assault is considered one of the taboo subjects. It is never talked about. Victims have to suffer through [it] alone, in silence, which makes it much harder. So, I think it…

I don’t know if this is relevant, but there’s this stereotype about North Africans or Arabs that they are “controlling”- which sometimes makes it easier to violate this policy. By saying that, “this person is…