Even though Pakistan has a law against sexual harrassment in the workplace, it will not be effective if women employees do not have access to competent and honest attorneys and women's organisations that are willing to take up their cases. Pakistan's Alliance Against Sexual Harrassment [AASHA] lists a large multinational pharmaceutical company as a "progressive employer" even though the company fired me for filing a sexual harrassment complaint against my supervisor. I informed AASHA about it but the organisation neither replied to me nor removed the company's name from its list of "progressive employers." So much for mobilising organisations for victims of sexual harrassment.

Asma Siddiqi