<TABLE id=msgUN cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD id=msgUNsubj vAlign=top>Coffeeshop Chit Chat - Haha very soon women raped in MRT train</TD><TD id=msgunetc noWrap align=right>
Subscribe </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=msgtable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgF noWrap align=right width="1%">From: </TD><TD class=msgFname noWrap width="68%">papsamleong <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate noWrap align=right width="30%">Mar-12 7:17 pm </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT noWrap align=right width="1%" height=20>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname noWrap width="68%">ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (1 of 27) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft width="1%" rowSpan=4> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>9044.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>I've said it before, with MRt train commuters packed like sardines, it would be just a matter of time before it happens. I've been vindicated!
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->TWO in five young women here had been sexually harassed on public transport like buses and trains.
To make matters worse, more than 95 per cent of them kept mum and did nothing about it.
<TABLE width=200 align=left valign="top"><TBODY><TR><TD class=padr8><!-- Vodcast --><!-- Background Story -->IF YOU are sexually harassed on a public bus or train, do not just keep quiet, urged Singapore Management University (SMU) undergraduate Nicole Oh.
The National Crime Prevention Council has these tips:
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Some perpetrators would stare at the women's chests or legs throughout the entire journey, or make lewd and suggestive remarks.
Others press themselves against the women during peak hours. But the victims did nothing because they did not wish to overreact or appear to be over-sensitive.
These were the results of a poll conducted on 150 female students at the Singapore Management University (SMU) in January.
The survey was carried out by six SMU students for Empower!, a campaign against sexual harassment on public transport done in collaboration with the Association of Women for Action & Research.
Organiser Nicole Oh, 20, told my paper: 'Sexual harassment refers to acts that lower the dignity of women.'
Perpetrators are likely to strike when the bus or train is packed, and students are often the victims because they tend to keep quiet, she said.
When she was 14, a man repeatedly rubbed his leg against hers on a crowded bus.
'I kept quiet because I did not know if he was doing it on purpose,' she said.
Fellow SMU student Liane Tan, 20, recalled a time when a man pressed himself against her back while they were on board a crowded train. She was a secondary-school student at the time.
'I tried to dismiss it as an accident,' she said. A forum on this issue will be held at SMU next Wednesday at 7.30pm. -- MY PAPER
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</TD></TR><TR><TD>March 13, 2009
</TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- headline one : start --></TD></TR><TR><TD>2 in 5 sexually harassed <!--10 min-->
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->TWO in five young women here had been sexually harassed on public transport like buses and trains.
To make matters worse, more than 95 per cent of them kept mum and did nothing about it.
<TABLE width=200 align=left valign="top"><TBODY><TR><TD class=padr8><!-- Vodcast --><!-- Background Story -->IF YOU are sexually harassed on a public bus or train, do not just keep quiet, urged Singapore Management University (SMU) undergraduate Nicole Oh.
The National Crime Prevention Council has these tips:
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Some perpetrators would stare at the women's chests or legs throughout the entire journey, or make lewd and suggestive remarks.
Others press themselves against the women during peak hours. But the victims did nothing because they did not wish to overreact or appear to be over-sensitive.
These were the results of a poll conducted on 150 female students at the Singapore Management University (SMU) in January.
The survey was carried out by six SMU students for Empower!, a campaign against sexual harassment on public transport done in collaboration with the Association of Women for Action & Research.
Organiser Nicole Oh, 20, told my paper: 'Sexual harassment refers to acts that lower the dignity of women.'
Perpetrators are likely to strike when the bus or train is packed, and students are often the victims because they tend to keep quiet, she said.
When she was 14, a man repeatedly rubbed his leg against hers on a crowded bus.
'I kept quiet because I did not know if he was doing it on purpose,' she said.
Fellow SMU student Liane Tan, 20, recalled a time when a man pressed himself against her back while they were on board a crowded train. She was a secondary-school student at the time.
'I tried to dismiss it as an accident,' she said. A forum on this issue will be held at SMU next Wednesday at 7.30pm. -- MY PAPER
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