89
PRIORITYMEASURE56
“Establishmechanisms for preventing sexual andother forms of harassment and violence against women andmen, especially in theworkplace
and educational settings, aswell as for filing relevant complaints and punishing such practices.”
Comments
PMs 54, 55 and 56 constitute a group of measures intended to eliminate gender disparities in the labour market.While PM 54 considers
asymmetries relating primarily to access to decent employment, job security, wages and decision-making, and PM 55 focuses more
specifically on encouraging businesswomen to exert leadership and to achieve high-level positions in companies, PM 56 aims at the
prevention and punishment of sexual and other forms of harassment in theworkplace.
This group of measures bears a close relationship to the Santo Domingo Consensus and to the SDGs. In the case of PM 56, there is a
direct linkwith agreement 63 of the SantoDomingoConsensus, “
Promote and enforce legislation on equality in employment to eliminate
discrimination relating to gender, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation and other types of discrimination in access to and security in the
labourmarket, establishingmechanisms for filing complaints to bodies clearly identified andmandated for that purpose and determining
sanctions for bullying, sexual harassment and other forms of violence against women in the workplace
”, and amore general relationship
to SDG target 5.2, “
Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in public and private spheres, including trafficking and
sexual andother types of exploitation
.”
Aswell, considering the broader context of combating violence against women, the follow-up to PM 56 could also be based on the Inter-
AmericanConvention on the Prevention, Punishment andEradication ofViolence againstWomen (Convention of Belém doPará) and on
the various measures in chapter D of the Santo Domingo Consensus (Gender equality and elimination of violence against women), as
developedmore specifically inPMs 57 and 58of this chapter.
Thismeasure is complementary toPM 89 for the particular case of eliminating all forms of violence against indigenouswomen.
