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Sexual Harassment and Violence

Sexual harassment and violence are grave violations of a person’s personal rights and prohibited as part of the official discourse on and off campus.

Sexual harassment on campus and in the workplace occurs when a person is confronted with undesired sexually motivated behavior:

• sexually suggestive jokes,
• demeaning comments concerning a person, their body, their conduct or their sex life,
• obscene gestures and other non-verbal communication,
• verbal, pictorial or electronic presentations depicting pornographic or sexist content,
• copying, applying or using computer programs with sexist content,
• actions and invitations to perform sexual physical touching,
• criminally relevant conduct, such as stalking, sexual coercion, rape. 

Contact the Consultative Council (“Vertrauensrat”) at the Philipps-Universität Marburg to file a complaint. All your information will be treated confidentially. Pertinent measures will not be implemented without your consent.

For further information, go to the web page of the Consultative Council (“Vertrauensrat”) or the Guideline of the Philipps-Universität to Help Protect Against Sexual Harassment and Violence (“Richtlinie der Philipps-Universität zum Schutz vor sexueller Belästigung und Gewalt“)