Sexual harassment: unwelcome physical contact, demands for sexual favours, forced pornography or sexual remarks attract criminal penalties. Sexual harassment is established as a criminal offence comprising four forms of unwelcome sexual conduct: physical contact and advances; demand or request for sexual favours; showing pornography against the will of a woman; and making sexually coloured remarks. The provision prescribes penal consequences-imprisonment, fine, or both-with higher maximum terms for physical contact, demands for favours, and forced pornography, and a lesser maximum term for sexually coloured remarks.
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Sexual harassment: unwelcome physical contact, demands for sexual favours, forced pornography or sexual remarks attract criminal penalties.
Sexual harassment is established as a criminal offence comprising four forms of unwelcome sexual conduct: physical contact and advances; demand or request for sexual favours; showing pornography against the will of a woman; and making sexually coloured remarks. The provision prescribes penal consequences-imprisonment, fine, or both-with higher maximum terms for physical contact, demands for favours, and forced pornography, and a lesser maximum term for sexually coloured remarks.
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