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A report issued by the University of British Columbia’s special panel reviewing its sexual-assault policy has recommended that it must take extensive steps to improve how it responds to sexual assault if it wants to counter campus “mistrust” of the way complaints are handled.
The 52-page report released on Monday entails a long list of ambitious recommendations including the creation of an independent centre that can help survivors find help, a simplified complaint process and a third-party reporting system that would allow anonymous reporting. One of the members on the panel and an assistant professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program, Sarah Hunt, mentioned in her remarks that “we wanted to do something that is more about transformation” adding that “it’s not just about UBC; this is a societal issue – we think it’s time that the university reflect that in the approach that they are taking.”
The review panel, which includes five faculty members and a PhD student, was appointed as part of UBC’s response to questions about how it deals with allegations of sexual assault. The panel’s chair, law professor and co-director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies at the Allard School of Law, Janine Benedet, explained that “we need to really make sure that we are hearing all the voices that need to be heard and that we come up with a strong sexual-assault policy that will serve the university well, and will not need to be immediately amended because it is not doing what it needs to do.”
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