Mazari takes notice of harassment at educational institutions

Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari has taken notice of the cases of harassment at educational institutes that have been reported over social media in the past week.

Have taken note of serious harassment allegations of young girls and women at educational institutions – most recently at two premier private institutions in Lahore. MOHR helpline 1099 is available for complaints & for help. Our regional offices have been alerted on this issue.

— Shireen Mazari (@ShireenMazari1) June 29, 2020

Shireen Mazari said, “Have taken note of serious harassment allegations of young girls and women at educational institutions – most recently at two premier private institutions in Lahore. MOHR helpline 1099 is available for complaints & for help. Our regional offices have been alerted on this issue.”

Several educational institutions including Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore Grammar School (LGS), NUST and FAST have been in the spotlight over allegations of harassment.

Numerous girls have been brave enough to step out and recall their sexual harassment stories and have shared them in hopes to receive the justice the administration of LGS 1-A/1 failed to provide. The accused have been proven by reports of many students of not only using inappropriate language, but also invading girls’ privacy by touching them inappropriately, and sending unsolicited pictures to young girls no more than 19/20.

Notably, Maira Omair Rana who is the wife of actor Omair Rana works at the admin office of LGS. Whenever girls complained to her, then she used to do victim-blaming. She scolded girls about their revealing clothes and even said to the victims that they should not come here for their complaints.

So @omairana’s wife Maira Omair Rana has been slut-shaming girls and silencing them since years over being harassed by the male faculty of LGS 1A1. This woman continues to preach “morals” and “ethics” while being a deeply rooted cause of the problem along with Rubina Shakeel 1/2

— Minzi⁷ (@girltipzyy) June 28, 2020

Social media activists have condemned the irresponsible behaviour of the schools’ administration and have accused them of ‘protecting’ the harassers.

Please tell me, is this how you would talk to sexual harassers? Reminiscing over the ‘pleasant journey’ y’all have had and what not?
Ladies & gentlemen, the principal of LGS 1A1, who always slut-shamed, body-shamed her students is sad to let go of these disgusting faculty members pic.twitter.com/L17YokQvVh

— نجيبہ | BLM (@NajeebaSajjad) June 28, 2020

Sexual harassment in school compasses is an “abhorrent phenomenon” which has risen in occurrence in Pakistan

Sexual harassment generally is violating humanity, religions and morals, and it has become more critical after taking place in the educational institutions in where students supposed to be in the responsibly of the teachers not being harassed emotionally and physically

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