If you have experienced or witnessed sexual harassment at LUH, you can contact us via email or telephone and make an (online) appointment. You will be advised confidentially and informed about your rights and options for action.
Leibniz Universität Hannover promotes equal and trusting cooperation between all employees and students and is committed to ensuring safe working, teaching and learning free from discrimination and harassment. It values respectful and professional interaction with each other, in which the personal rights and individual personal boundaries of all are acknowledged and respected. Sexual harassment is a violation of people's personal rights and is therefore not tolerated.
LUH's protection concept includes the counselling services offered by the various institutions, the circular, the persons of trust and lecturers of trust in the institutes and facilities, the decentralised equal opportunities officers, the A-Team of students and the official complaints procedure via the General Act on Equal Treatment (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz - AGG).
The counselling and complaints offices at Leibniz Universität Hannover records complaints confidentially and discusses the next steps with those affected. The persons affected decide on each step, nothing is passed on to third parties.
Sexual harassment can result in sanctions under labour law for the person harassing, e.g. a warning, reassignment, transfer or dismissal. Students can be exmatriculated and persons who are only temporarily at Leibniz Universität can be banned from the premises.
Digital forms of sexual harassment and discrimination are treated equally. Digital violence is gender-based violence that uses technical aids and digital media (cell phones, apps, Internet applications, mails, etc.) or that takes place in the digital space, e.g., on online portals or social media. Manifestations of digital violence are: Defamation, exclusion, insults, harassment, stalking and threats against people, as well as identity theft and the unauthorized disclosure of private recordings and/or the sending of pornographic content.
Our counseling team receives regular training on dealing with digital violence and works with specialized counseling centers and organizations, including Cordelia Moore - Cyberviolence & HateAid.
For more information on digital violence, click here: Digital Violence.
The term sexual harassment in the sense of the Senate Guidelines of 1995 and the AGG is understood to mean any sexualised behaviour that is unwanted by the person concerned. This behaviour can be direct or indirect, verbal or non-verbal. It is insulting, intimidating, degrading or humiliating and is usually perceived as violence.
Examples:
The only decisive factor is whether a certain behaviour has a sexual character and the person concerned felt harassed by it.
In accordance with the Leibniz University Hannover Senate Guidelines of 1995 and the General Act on Equal Treatment of the Federal Government (AGG), sexual harassment is a violation of people's personal rights and will therefore not be tolerated.
Students and employees are protected from any form of sexual harassment, regardless of whether it is caused by superiors, colleagues, teachers or students.
Counselling centres are available to employees and students of Leibniz Universität Hannover for advice or to submit a complaint:
Hochschulbüro für ChancenVielfalt - Equal Opportunities Office
Consulting Service
0511 762 5750 or
beratung@chancenvielfalt.uni-hannover.de
www.chancenvielfalt.uni-hannover.de
Psychologisch-Therapeutische-Beratung - Psychological-Therapeutic Counselling (ptb)
0511 762 3779 or
info@ptb.uni-hannover.de
www.ptb.uni-hannover.de
Department 2 - Personnel and Legal Affairs
Please contact your respective administrator in the Human Resources Department: www.uni-hannover.de/de/universitaet/organisation/dezernate/personal
Frauennotruf Hannover - Women's Emergency Hotline Hannover
0511 332112 or
info@frauennotruf-hannover.de
www.frauennotruf-hannover.de
Hilfetelefon – Beratung und Hilfe für Frauen - Help hotline - counselling and help for women
08000 116016 or
www.hilfetelefon.de
Männerbüro Hannover - Men's Office Hanover
0511 1235890 oder
info@maennerbuero-hannover.de
www.maennerbuero-hannover.de
Polizei Hannover - Hannover Police
Notrufnummer 110 or
Polizeikommissariat Hannover-Nordstadt - Hannover-Nordstadt Police Station
0511 1093115 or
www.onlinewache.polizei.niedersachsen.de
HateAid - Counseling and support for victims of online hate speech and hate comments
beratung@hateaid.org
www.hateaid.org
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