Consensus is forming internationally that tackling sexual harassment requires leadership and organisation-wide approaches to break the culture of silence and drive cultural change. Australia is part of the new Group of Friends to Eliminate Sexual Harassment, which was set up to share national, regional and international good practices between UN Member States.120 Internationally, there have been a range of recent initiatives not only to break the silence on sexual harassment, but also to take proactive steps to stop it. For example, the UN has acknowledged unequal power relations, abuse of power and gender bias as factors that underlie sexual harassment.114 Although the issue of sexual harassment is not new, best practices to reduce sexual harassment are still in development. The ILO and UN Women have compiled lessons on addressing violence and harassment in the world of work, arguing for a ‘transformative’ approach to sexual harassment that tackles the gender equalities and discrimination that underpin it.121 In response to accounts of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment by UN personnel, the UN Secretary General launched a set of system-wide initiatives— including structural, legal and operational measures to drive change across the UN system—and called on States to pursue a range of common goals.115 These included upholding international obligations to ensure accountability, holding perpetrators to account and ensuring effective remedies for victims.116 Further, UN agencies have noted the importance of collective action by employers, civil society, governments and workers, and the need to provide opportunities for victims’ voices to be heard.117 Australia has committed to the UN Secretary General’s initiatives and joined other global leaders in the UN’s Circle of Leadership.118 It also signed the UN Voluntary Compact, signalling high-level political commitment to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse in UN operations, and contributed to a Trust Fund in support of victims of sexual exploitation and abuse.119 One of the most recent and comprehensive was the ILO and UN Women Handbook: Addressing violence and harassment against women in the world of work, which recognises that such violence and harassment is a serious violation of women’s human rights and a major barrier to achieving equality of opportunity and access to decent and dignified work.122 In addition, a 2019 UN Women publication offering guidance for policy makers and employers on eliminating sexual harassment at work, emphasised: The task is not to protect an organisation by denying or minimising what is happening but to end sexual harassment by changing behaviour and culture: that is, ending skewed and rigid power distributions.123 Respect@Work: National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian Workplaces • 2020 • 83