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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