Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May has launched an investigation into allegations of a sex abuse of power by a government minister, just days after a Labour member of parliament was suspended from his own party for offensive remarks.
The Washington Post reported Thursday on how “Congress makes its own rules about the handling of sexual complaints … passing laws exempting it from practices that apply to other employers.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said a former professor sexually harassed her when she was a young law professor at the University of Houston.
A “star” activist and parliamentary attaché of French President Emmanuel Macron’s Republic on the March party (LREM) has been accused of sexual assault by a female French parliament aide, forcing him to resign from his position.
Female staff working in parliament are naming which MPs to avoid due to allegedly sexually inappropriate behaviour in a secret WhatsApp group, it has been reported.
Employees of the European Commission made at least one complaint of sexual harassment against a colleague every week for the past five years, it has been revealed as the hashtag #MeTooEU trends online.
Multiple women working at Swedish publicly funded broadcaster SVT have come forward claiming that a high-level manager in the company had repeatedly sexually harassed them.
There is a Big Story in Monday’s New York Times: “Harvey Weinstein’s Fall Opens Floodgates In Hollywood.” Except for the fact that not a single floodgate is open, that headline is deadly accurate.
