The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) is to soon release a set of guidelines to prevent and deal with sexual harassment, esp-ecially of women, in Church-run institutions. The document titled “CBCI Guidelines to Deal with Sexual Harassment at Workplace” will be released on Sept 14 at a press conference at the CBCI Centre in New Delhi.
“The Church, while wanting to ensure the protection and respect for women at workplace and without in any way under-estimating the seriousness of sexual harassment of women at workplace, wants to address all forms of sexual harassment at work place,” said the Council for Women of the CBCI, in a statement on Sept 11. The statement signed by council chairperson, Bishop Jacob Mar Barnabas of Gurgaon and secretary, Sr Talisha Nadu-kudiyil SD, explained that document will be “gender in-clusive and has been formula-ted to create a safe, healthy and loving environment that enables its employees to work without the fear of prejudice, bias and sexual harassment and creates a mechanism for pre-vention of any form of harass-ment.”
