WORLD Workplace Sexual Harassment Laws 2024

The WORLD Policy Analysis Center (WORLD) is committed to improving the quantity and quality of globally comparative data available to policymakers, citizens, civil society, and researchers on laws and policies that work to support human rights, including economic opportunity, social and civic engagement, human health, development, well-being, and equity. The WORLD Workplace Sexual Harassment Laws 2024 dataset was created to assess progress on laws prohibiting sexual harassment at work through a systematic review of legislation across all 193 UN countries as of January 2024. The dataset covers whether all forms of sexual harassment are prohibited, whether laws cover everyone in the workplace, and whether laws cover all perpetrators, as well as measures to support effective implementation including employer responsibility to prevent discrimination, employer liability, and protection from all forms of retaliation for reporting sexual harassment or from participating in workplace investigations. A public use legislative repository is also included providing the legislation used to code each country.