{"id":130575,"date":"2021-09-22T13:40:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T11:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=130575"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:53","slug":"minister-finds-intervention-against-sexual-violence-at-universities-unnecessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2021\/09\/22\/minister-finds-intervention-against-sexual-violence-at-universities-unnecessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister finds intervention against sexual violence at universities unnecessary"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is \u2018no need\u2019 for the government to take action in the higher education sector to protect students against sexual assault and rape, in the view of outgoing minister Ingrid van Engelshoven.<\/p>\n

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Enough is already being done, the minister argues in her written reply<\/a> to questions from the House of Representatives. For example, the higher education sector appoints ombudsmen to whom students can turn.<\/p>\n

It emerged from a recent survey<\/a> by human rights organisation Amnesty that roughly one in ten female students are raped in their student years. Among male students, the figure is one in a hundred. Moreover, many students do not know where to go for help if something happens.<\/p>\n

Minister Van Engelshoven said at the time that she was \u2018horrified<\/a>\u2019 by the findings. But that did not result in any immediate political action.<\/p>\n\n\t

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