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In light of the "#metoo" movement, International Cricket Council is getting ready to put in place a framework to deal with the many accusations of sexual harassment being made and also sexual harassment in general. The movement also recently reached the doors of BCCI as its CEO was accused.

The International Cricket Council l(ICC) has called for a conference of all the Test playing nations’ CEO in Singapore from October 16-19. The purpose of the meeting would be to make a proposal to not allow any person accused of sexual harassment to attend any event related to ICC.

What it means is that any player, coach, team official, journalist or vendor accused of sexual misconduct would be kept out of the ICC events like Champions Trophy, World Cup, T20 World Cup, and U-19 events.

“Making workplace free of sexual harassment is the sole intention,the policy we are proposing to put in place includes the rights of the women working in the ICC events. For instance, if a woman journalist is harassed during an ICC event, she will have prompt, easy and confidential process to lodge a complaint. It’s for everyone involved to declare that cricket will not tolerate sexual harassment”, Mumbai Mirror reported as an ICC source as saying.

“We aim to have better protection for children and adult participants. The players will be required to come up with better behaviour off the field as well.”

On the other hand in India, BCCI’s CEO Rahul Johri has been accused of sexual harassment. After he was accused he was asked by the Supreme Court appointed CoA to skip the ICC meet to be held in Singapore and was asked for an explanation from Johri.

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