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Safe Spaces Act

The Safe Spaces Act addresses gender-based sexual harassment in public spaces, workplaces, and educational institutions. It prohibits unwelcome conduct such as catcalling, leering, unwanted comments on appearance, persistent sexual jokes, stalking, groping, and exposing private parts. The act also requires employers and school administrators to implement policies against sexual harassment and take action on reported incidents. Failure to do so will result in administrative penalties under the Safe Spaces Act.

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Safe Spaces Act

The Safe Spaces Act addresses gender-based sexual harassment in public spaces, workplaces, and educational institutions. It prohibits unwelcome conduct such as catcalling, leering, unwanted comments on appearance, persistent sexual jokes, stalking, groping, and exposing private parts. The act also requires employers and school administrators to implement policies against sexual harassment and take action on reported incidents. Failure to do so will result in administrative penalties under the Safe Spaces Act.

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Republic Act No.

11313 or “The Safe Spaces Act”

Addressing Gender-Based Sexual Harassment

APRIL 17, 2019

Gender-based sexual harassment in streets and public spaces:

Cursing, wolf-whistling, catcalling, leering and intrusive gazing, taunting, unwanted invitations,
misogynistic, transphobic, homophobic, and sexist slurs, persistent unwanted comments on one’s
appearance, relentless requests for one’s personal details such as name, contact and social media
details or destination, the use of words, gestures or actions that ridicule on the basis of sex, gender
or sexual orientation, identity and/or expression including sexist, homophobic, and transphobic
statements and slurs, the persistent telling of sexual jokes, use of sexual names, comments and
demands, and any statement that has made an invasion on a person’s personal space or threatens
the person’s sense of personal safety

Making offensive body gestures at someone, exposing private parts for the sexual gratification of
the perpetrator with the effect of demeaning, harassing, threatening or intimidating the offended
party including flashing of private parts, public masturbation, groping, and similar lewd sexual
actions

Stalking, any of the acts mentioned in 11(a) or 11(b) when accompanied by touching, pinching or
brushing against the body of the offended person; any touching, pinching, or brushing against the
genitalia, face, arms, anus, groin, breasts, inner thighs, buttocks or any part of the victim’s body
even when not accompanied by acts mentioned in 11(a) and 11(b)

Gender-based sexual harassment in the workplace and educational or training institutions

Failure of employers or school heads to implement their duties under the Safe Spaces Act (i.e.
including setting of administrative penalties to violations of gender-based sexual harassment in the
workplace)

Failure of employers or school heads to take action on reported acts of gender-based sexual
harassment committed in the workplace or in the educational institution

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