BEWARE of Sexual Harassment and Stop Blaming Victims

2024.03.12

To raise awareness about sexual harassment, Student Representative Council of UTAR Kampar organized a two-day exhibition “BEWARE” from March 12 to 13 at the Heritage Hall.

Various pieces of information related to sexual harassment are exhibited in the hall, including real-life stories, common injustice stereotypes on victims, possible behaviours that cause sexual harassments, impacts on victims, how to deal with sexual harassments, and so on. 

“I still see a lot of people blaming victims whenever sexual harassment cases happen, even though they did nothing wrong,” said a student who visited to the exhibition. 

She also added that this exhibition is very important to promote a correct perspective in understanding sexual harassment so that people will be more aware of protecting the victims and avoiding inadvertently becoming harassers themselves. 

Lee Wei Kang, the chairperson of SRC UTAR Kampar mentioned that the reason they organized this exhibition is that he and his members were once involved in a sexual harassment case, and they wanted to help others who face the same experience.

“Many students don’t know how to deal with it and they don’t know who they can seek help from, so we truly hope that the awareness could be raised through this exhibition,” he said. 

He also mentioned that they only managed to hold the exhibition for two days because the venue was booked by others, and he hoped that the students would not miss the chance to visit this exhibition.

Reported by: Tay Yong Qi

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为了提高学生们对性骚扰事件的意识，金宝校区拉曼大学学生代表理事会于3月12日及13日，在文化遗产厅（Heritage Hall），举办了一场名为“小心”的展览。

展览中展出了许多与性骚扰相关的信息与内容，其中包括发生在现实里的真实故事、众人对受害者的常见不公平刻板印象、可能引发性骚扰的行为、事件对受害者的影响以及处理性骚扰事件的方法。

一名观展的学生受访时指出，此类展览非常重要，帮助学生们用正确的视角看待性骚扰、让他们意识到保护受害者的重要性、以及避免自己在无意中成为骚扰者。

“即便到现在，我还是发现每次发生性骚扰事件时受害者都会先被谴责，虽然他们本身并没有做错什么。”

金宝拉曼大学学生代表理事会主席李韦康指出，由于他和团队成员曾不幸经历一场性骚扰事件，因此他们希望透过举办此次展览帮助其他面对相似经历的同学。

“许多学生在遇到这种情况时都不懂该如何应对，甚至不知道可以向谁求助，所以希望这次展览的资讯普及能够帮助到他们。”

另外，他补充由于场地限制该展览将只持续两天，希望学生们不要错过参观此次展览的机会。