Reporting sexual harassment is still a taboo for Albanian women, study shows

TIRANA, Nov. 21 – Reporting sexual harassment and other forms of gender based violence in Albania urban areas remains a taboo for the overwhelming majority of Albanian women and girls, a study has shown. While more than a third of respondents in a survey conducted in the country’s three largest cities admit to having been at risk or exposed to sexual harassment or violence, only few cases are reported with authorities in ongoing phenomenon hampered by both fears of prejudice and lack of trust in the country’s law enforcement bodies. Some 38 percent of surveyed women in urban areas of…