Sentences with phrase «silenced by harassment»

«And, hopefully, shows like this, more will be made so people out there who are feeling silenced by harassment, discrimination, abuse time is up.

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On the Day of Silence, students take a «a vow of silence to bring attention to anti-LGBT name - calling, bullying and harassment in their schools,» according to a web site run by the event's sponsor, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (Silence, students take a «a vow of silence to bring attention to anti-LGBT name - calling, bullying and harassment in their schools,» according to a web site run by the event's sponsor, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (silence to bring attention to anti-LGBT name - calling, bullying and harassment in their schools,» according to a web site run by the event's sponsor, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).

Children are increasingly becoming victims of virtual and visual sexual harassment by their own peers and are being bullied either into reciprocating and / or into silence.

Matt Lauer has broken his five - month silence after being canned by NBC over sexual harassment allegations, conceding he «acted inappropriately» — but denying ever forcing himself on anyone.

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following in response to questions about Governor Andrew Cuomo's multi-pronged agenda that targets sexual harassment in the workplace: «A settlement should not compel silence in perpetuity and preclude further accountability for harassers enabled by that very silence.

«Since I first called for his resignation in 2012, when it was discovered that he had used taxpayer dollars to silence victims of sexual harassment, the pattern of misbehavior exhibited by this all - too - powerful politician had become increasingly clear.

By discouraging access to public space, street harassment silences women's voices and quashes their participation in public life, the team behind the app told a computing conference in Canada earlier this month.

Along with a request that women walking the red carpet at the Golden Globes speak out and raise awareness by wearing black, the initiative includes a legal defense fund, backed by $ 13 million in donations, to help less privileged women — like janitors, nurses, farm and factory workers, waitresses, hotel housekeepers — protect themselves from sexual misconduct and the fallout from reporting it; legislation to penalize companies that tolerate persistent harassment, and to discourage the use of nondisclosure agreements to silence victims; and a drive to at long last reach gender parity at studios and talent agencies that reportedly has already begun making headway.

A conservative artist who goes by the name Sabo is taking credit for the signage, telling the Hollywood Reporter that the messages are meant to criticize Hollywood figures who enable sexual harassment through their silence.

After months of silence and despite the overwhelming fact that there is no federal or state law that allows the government or school districts to punish children (or parents) who opt their children out of the Common Core Testing Scam, Malloy's interim Commissioner of Education incredibly instructed school superintendents to continue their unethical and immoral harassment of parents who are seeking to protect their children by opting them out of the Common Core SBAC Tests — A test that is rigged to ensure that as many as 7 in 10 Connecticut public school students are deemed failures and that more than 90 percent of special education students and English Language Learners have «fail» attached to their academic records.

The #MeToo movement has empowered victims of sexual harassment and abuse previously silenced by powerful business and political leaders.