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What types of action should they report?

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?

Recommendations

  • Deliver accessible education about Canadian sexual assault laws, including how they work, and the ways they tend to fail survivors in practice.

  • Create and promote avenues for comprehensive consent education.

  • Clarify the relationship between university policy and the criminal justice system.

  • Use multiple formats to deliver accessible education about the SV/SA policy during orientation and at least once per semester