One woman said she was given a six month contract with UNRWA after being pressured to sleep with an aid worker. Some Palestinian men have been exploiting the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, using resources as a way to pressure women into sexual interactions they would not have otherwise consented to, six local women…
The Chinese social media platform Weibo has shut down several accounts for “inciting gender antagonism” and vowed to continue cracking down on such behaviour. On Monday, the social media site announced via its official account that it had permanently closed an account named “Lilian Shuodao” for “continuously stigmatising the opposite sex and posting extreme anti-marriage…
A law student at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has expressed “deep remorse” for using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to create pornographic images of female classmates and has voluntarily withdrawn from an overseas academic exchange programme, according to the institution. In a statement issued on Thursday, its second within five days in response to…
Lawmakers have criticised the government’s reluctance to introduce women-only areas on trains and buses in Hong Kong, questioning why they are not given the same privileges as those offered under a special travel scheme made for pets. Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung dismissed the idea of establishing designated zones for men and women on…
Tyler Perry has been accused in a civil lawsuit of repeatedly sexually assaulting and harassing an actor on “The Oval,” a TV drama that Perry created, according to a new lawsuit. The suit, filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court by the actor Derek Dixon, alleges Perry used his influence in the entertainment industry to…
An ex-account manager for Expeditors International failed to convince a federal appeals court Tuesday that it has jurisdiction to revive his defeated wrongful termination lawsuit. David Keane couldn’t establish that a district court has personal jurisdiction over his lawsuit against his former employers Expeditors International of Washington Inc. and Expeditors Hong Kong Ltd., Judge Sandra…
A former Hong Kong probationary police inspector has been jailed for 10 weeks for molesting two female officers after a court rejected his assertion that his work equipment could have accidentally brushed the victims. Fanling Court on Wednesday convicted Tito Yeung Mang-hei of two counts of indecent assault for using his hand to swipe the…
A banker accused of indecently assaulting a female subordinate has been acquitted after a Hong Kong magistrate expressed doubts about the woman’s testimony and questioned her agenda of pursuing legal action “at all costs”. Magistrate Minnie Wat Lai-man said on Tuesday that the court should give defendant Alan Lai King-lun, 54, the benefit of the…
In Hong Kong, an alarming 34 per cent of female respondents have reported experiencing workplace sexual harassment over the past three years, according to a joint survey that the Democratic Alliance of Betterment and Progress (DAB) conducted alongside several civil society organisations. Yet more than 60 per cent of victims opted not to take any…
One-third of women in Hong Kong have been sexually harassed in the workplace over the past three years but most of them do nothing about it fearing it will affect their job or because they have accepted it as the norm, a survey has found. Lawmaker Elizabeth Quat Pei-fan, whose party jointly carried out the…