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Sexual harassment is a type of bullying intended to hurt or intimidate someone. It can include verbal harassment, such as sexual jokes or sexual comments, as well as physical harassment in the form of sexual gestures, touching in a sexual way or sexual actions toward or about another person. Sexual harassment can also include asking someone to share sexual pictures, sending someone unwanted sexual pictures or starting sexual rumors about someone (in person, via text, online or in writing in a public place, like a bathroom stall).

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Sexual harassment is unwanted conduct of a sexual nature. It can be physical, verbal, or non-verbal.

Examples can include, but are not limited to:

1. Physical: Touching, hugging, kissing, caressing, touching oneself sexually for others to
view, sexual assault, intercourse or other sexual activity. Unwanted physical contact and assault
(including attempts and threats)

2. Verbal: Dishonoring or inappropriate comments, jokes, questions about someone’s sex life,
remarks about someone’s appearance, pressure for unnecessary personal interaction and
pressure for dates where a sexual/romantic intent appears evident but remains unwanted.

3. Non-verbal: Sexual gestures, staring, and unwanted phone calls, letters, notes, and/or
emails containing inappropriate or sexual content.

SEXUAL HARASSMENT IS AGAINST THE LAW.

What the Kenyan law states in The Sexual Offences Act. No 3 of 2006:

23. Sexual Harassment
(1) Any person, who being in a position of authority, or holding a public office, who
persistently makes any sexual advances or requests which he or she knows, or has
reasonable grounds to know, are unwelcome, is guilty of the offence of sexual
harassment and shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than three years
or to a fine of not less than one hundred thousand shillings or to both.

WHAT IS SEXUAL HARASSMENT?

24. Sexual offences relating to position of authority and persons in position of
trust
(5) Any person who being in a position of trust takes advantage of his or her position
and induces or seduces a person in their care to have sexual intercourse with him or
her or commits any other offence under this Act, such sexual intercourse not
amounting to the offence of rape or defilement, shall be guilty of an offence of abuse
of position of trust and shall be liable upon conviction to imprisonment for a term of
not less than ten years.