Sexual harassment in higher education is not fiction, it is reality. Six out of ten female students attending higher education in Mozambique have already been victims of sexual harassment perpetrated by their lecturers. The vast majority did not report it for fear of reprisals, and the few who had the courage to report it were not taken into account by those to whom they reported. This situation occurs despite the fact that the Penal Code criminalises and punishes sexual harassment and that educational institutions have regulations to prevent and combat it. The results of field research in eight higher education institutions in four provinces, Tete, Manica, Inhambane and Maputo City, show that between 2019 and 2022, from the thirty complaints of sexual harassment in higher education institutions, the majority (15) were closed.
