Harassment, bullying and discrimination
Harassment – behavior which, based on race, skin color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or the presence of a genetic disease, etc., may offend or humiliate another person; or behavior that systematically violates other people’s boundaries, including psychological pressure.
Harassment can manifest in various ways. These can include offensive words, jokes, pictures, posters, comments, pranks, intimidation, unwanted physical contact, physical aggression, or violence. It may also include the use of computers for harassment, unwelcome sexual advances, demands for sexual favors, or other unwelcome actions or contacts of a sexual nature, whether verbal or physical.
“Harassment in any form (verbal, physical, visual), both towards beneficiaries and towards Personnel and Affiliates, is strictly prohibited.” Safeguarding Policy, para. 12.1
Caritas Ukraine supports equal rights and freedoms for all people, regardless of their characteristics. Discrimination or bullying is not allowed based on race, skin color, religious or political views, sex, age, nationality, health status, refugee status, veteran status, military personnel status, or citizenship, etc.
Discrimination – a situation in which an individual and/or a group of individuals, based on their characteristics of race, skin color, political, religious, and other beliefs, sex, age, disability, ethnic and social origin, citizenship, family and property status, place of residence, linguistic or other characteristics that were, are, and may be actual or perceived, experience restriction in the recognition, exercise, or enjoyment of rights and freedoms in any form established by law, except in cases where such restriction has a legitimate, objectively justified purpose, the means of achieving which are appropriate and necessary. Law of Ukraine dated 06.09.2012 № 5207-VI “On the Principles of Preventing and Counteracting Discrimination in Ukraine”.
Stalking – unwanted, persistent, or intrusive attention from an individual or group towards another person, causing fear, anxiety, emotional or psychological stress, and is a form of harassment.
Bullying – a manifestation of aggression followed by intimidation of an individual and the emergence of the possibility of their complete subordination to oneself and one’s interests. Bullying can occur in various environments: among children and teenagers – bullying; in a team among colleagues – mobbing.
