‘Murder victim, rape survivor, porn star’: How Hong Kong media treats women reveals a wider issue, scholars say
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As Hong Kong authorities plan legislation to make reporting suspected cases of child abuse compulsory, survivors of childhood sexual assault have voiced concerns that the well-intended move might create more trauma.
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SCMP Lunar team talked to Gloria Ho, executive committee member of the city's first sexual assault crisis centre, with which she has been involved for more than 12 years. Gloria guides us through the reality of survivors in Hong Kong, how the organisation tries to provide solutions to them, and what should change in order to create a safer future for women in the city.
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Read More“Image-based sexual violence is becoming more and more serious,” said Linda Wong Sau-yung, executive director of the association. “Of the sexual violence cases we received at [rape-crisis centre] RainLily in 2019, every one in seven cases was related to image-based sexual violence.”
Sexual harassment in the workplace is widespread in Hong Kong, but entrenched cultural norms and a retrograde legal system continue to impede justice.
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Read MoreLinda Wong, executive director of the Association Concerning Sexual Violence Against Women (ACSVAW), said on Thursday that the group supported the report.
“I appreciate the [proposed] amendment by the Law Reform Commission,” Wong said. “We also receive a lot of questions from women, for example, whether the law can tackle women being photographed while breastfeeding?”
The experience left Miu exhausted. “Being sexually assaulted is not something that someone can talk about lightly, and I hardly wanted to be reminded of it again,” she told HKFP. “But each of these procedures repeatedly asks [me] the same questions. It was mentally traumatising.”
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