Jamshoro: The office of Women Harassment Committee, SABS University Jamshoro in collaboration with the Federal Ombudsperson for Protection Against Harassment (FOSPAH) of Women at the Workplace of the government of Pakistan arranged an awareness seminar on protection against harassment (Workplace Harassment Act), at the Shaheed Allah Buksh Soomro (SABS) University of Art, Design and Heritages Jamshoro.
Regional Head Sindh of Federal Ombudsperson for Protection Against Harassment of Women at the Workplace, Sabiqa Shah said that Pakistani females should go out for work because it has become very difficult to rely on a single income and almost impossible to meet the expenses in the current scenario of the country. She said that FOSPAH work as an independent court and deals the cases of all genders and resolve the matter within ninety days of filing report. Sabiqa Shah said that if any person is found guilty of any harassment incident, he has to face the music according to law and to punish a particular culprit is not the solution of whole problem but overall culture has to be changed for long term safety of citizens.Addressing the audiences, Assistant Registrar FOSPAH, Sindh, Uffaifah Samo and Assistant Law Officer, FOSPAH, Sindh Muhammad Aliyan said that Pakistan ranks fourth worst country in women peace and security index, 82% women face harassment on public transport but 80% women claim that police did nothing about their complaint. They said that FOSPAH believes in fairness, integrity, transparency, independence, promptness, confidentiality, accessibility, informality and impartiality. The speakers added that FOSPAH resolves complaints and provide relief to the public by carrying out independent investigations into complaints about ‘maladministration ‘ in any Federal Government agency and work to put things right and share lessons learnt and help improve public services as a result.Speaking on the occasion Vice-Chancellor SABS University Jamshoro Prof. Dr. Arabella Bhutto thanked the team of FOSPAH for organizing awareness seminar and assured every student and employee of the university to feel free in premises of campus and make SABS harassment free zone in the region.The seminar was attended by large number of students, faculty members and employees
