Lisis y marcaje
AXINA Proteólisis
5.1.2. Alteración de interacciones quimiocina-receptor
Queen’s University should have a sexual assault policy. Survivors of sexual assault at Queen’s have few options when it comes to seeking justice. They are able to go through the legal system. However, going through their university may feel more familiar during a traumatic time. Also, the university should provide accommodations that will enable the survivor to further their endeavours at Queen’s.
According to the Human Rights Office’s Harassment/Discrimination Complaint Policy and Procedure, there are two ways by which a survivor can seek justice. There is the informal process in which the complainant meets with an Adviser in order to have a conciliatory meeting. There is also the formal process in which a board of three is formed in order to determine sanctions. Apparently, there has not been a single instance of when the formal process was ever used for a case of sexual assault.
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Informal Process•
http://www.queensu.ca/secretariat/policies/senateandtrustees/harassment.html•
Human Rights Office’s Harassment/Discrimination Complaint Policy Section C. III. 6 to 7•
Formal Process•
Human Rights Office’s Harassment/Discrimination Complaint Policy Section C. III. 8Currently, Queen’s has a Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Working Group composed of faculty, students and staff members. Queen’s has also initiated a Psycho-Educational Group for Survivors of Sexual Assault which is a group with ten to twelve members. Principal Woolf also released a statement last Thursday pledging that Queen’s will develop sexual assault policy.
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Current Queen’s initiatives:• http://www.queensu.ca/studentaffairs/health-and-wellness/sexual-assault-prevention-and-response-
working-group
• http://queensjournal.ca/story/2014-10-08/news/university-launches-support-group-survivors-sexual/ • http://www.queensu.ca/gazette/stories/statement-regarding-toronto-star-story-sexual-assault
Sexual assault is outside of the purview of both NAD and the AMS. However, a sexual assault policy should have already been implemented. There are nine other universities in Canada with sexual assault policy. What we can do as AMS Assembly is take a stance on this issue and declare that sexual assault policy should be implemented at Queen’s in Policy Manual 3. I have listed below what the aspects of this sexual assault policy should include, as would be outlined in our representational policy:
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What Queen’s can do:•
Provide more support for survivors of sexual assault through the addition and enlargement of support groups•
Provide a mechanism of justice that a survivor can pursue that will be swift and progressive•
Ensure that this mechanism of justice will enable the right of the accused to fair representation•
Allowing accommodations to be made to enable the survivor’s accessibility to their education at Queen’s (Allowing one to switch courses and residence buildings and also banning the accused from certain buildings on campus)•
Provide workshops based on bystander interventionAppendix
http://myams.org/media/4250/AMS_Policy_Manual-Part3-Representation_Policy.pdf
Previous stances of AMS Policy Manual 3 on violence against women (Although any sexual assault policy should reflect the reality that sexual violence is both perpetrated by and inflicted on a gender spectrum)
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4. DESIGNATION OF DECEMBER 6th•
4. The AMS is committed to being a non-discriminatory organization. Concerned by issues of violence against women, the AMS supports the designation of December 6th as a date to remember the killing of fourteen women at Ecole Polytechnique on December 6th, 1989, and to reflect on issues that relate to violence against women, both in our community, nationally and globally.•
It is the position of the AMS Assembly that:•
December 6th continue to be a designated day of remembrance at Queen‟s University.•
December 6th continue to be appropriately observed by the cancellation of classes, exams and other academic commitmentsReference to sexual assault in Human Rights Office’s Harassment/Discrimination Complaint Policy Section
http://www.queensu.ca/secretariat/policies/senateandtrustees/harassment.html
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B.3.C.Definition of Sexual Harassment
3 Sexual harassment means engaging in comment or conduct of a sexual nature which is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome. It includes but is not limited to:
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a sexual solicitations, advances, remarks, suggestive comments and gestures.
b the inappropriate display of sexually suggestive pictures, posters, objects or graffiti. c physical contact of a sexual nature (including sexual assault under the Criminal Code.)
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d sexual conduct that interferes with an individual’s dignity or privacy such as voyeurism, and exhibitionism.
Queen’s Journal Articles on Sexual Assault at Queen’s
http://queensjournal.ca/story/2014-10-08/features/sexual-assault-queens/
http://queensjournal.ca/story/2014-10-17/editorials/queens-has-failed-sexual-assault-survivors/
http://queensjournal.ca/story/2014-11-07/news/queens-release-internal-sexual-assault-response- re/
Toronto Star Investigation on Sexual Assault
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/11/20/canadian_postsecondary_schools_failing_sex_ assault_victims.html