Details : The definition of harassment has been changed by Parliament, so it is no longer restricted to sexual harassment. It now includes, “any undesired behaviour that produces an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating, or insulting environment based on age, disability, gender, religion or belief, race, or sexual orientation.” What happened : Members of Pakistan’s National Assembly have adopted modifications to the country’s workplace harassment law, broadening the definition of harassment, defining who is considered as an employee, and allowing people to file complaints. If it interferes with work performance, voyeurism and stalking will henceforth be deemed sexual harassment at work. Why it matters : “The change has widen the scope and includes transgender people, so that the law may apply indiscriminately to all citizens employed,” read the draft of the bill. The law also identifies a co-worker as an employer. This will have an impact on the cases in which complaints are dismissed based on the technical ground that there’s no employee-employer relationship like what happened in the Meesha Shafi-Ali Zafar case.