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The Manpower Ministry is preparing a decree aimed at preventing and handling cases of sexual violence in workplaces, in a move to provide stronger legal protections for workers amid an increase in reported complaints of such cases in the country.
Throughout 2021, police reports were filed on alleged sexual violence committed by religious boarding school teachers, an elementary school teacher, a mosque caretaker and Quran reading tutors in different cities.
Women won a major victory with the passing of the Elimination of Domestic Violence Law in 2004. The backlash occurred very quickly with the passing of the Pornography Law in 2008, pushed by the Islamist parties.
Lawmakers are expected to approve the sexual violence bill as a House of Representatives initiative in its plenary session on Tuesday, paving the way for the long-awaited bill to be deliberated with the government and putting it one step closer to being passed into law.
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