Whether for professionals or amateurs, sports can be an exhilarating and rewarding experience, but the frequent physcial contact and asymmetrical coach-athelete relationships also make it a potential hotbed of sexual harassment (SH). Over the past few years, the EOC has partnered with the Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China (SF&OC) to organise anti-SH training workshops and seminars for National Sports Associations (NSAs), who are responsible for promoting sports in Hong Kong and selecting atheletes to represent our city in international competitions. A guide has also been developed for sports organisations to formulate anti-SH policies. To track progress and identify ongoing challenges, the EOC conducted a survey of NSAs regarding their adoption of anti-SH policies from July to October 2018, following a similar study in 2014. Questionnaries were distributed via SF&OC to the 79 NSAs in Hong Kong, out of which 42 were returned.

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On 17 February 2019, the Association for the Advancement of Feminism (AAF) released the findings of a study funded by the EOC on anti-sexual harassment (SH) policies in the tertiary education sector. The anti-SH policies of eight UGC-funded universities and 10 self-financed tertiary institutions that offer sub-degree and degree programmes were assessed against a checklist of 36 criteria developed by AAF.