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    Remember: Street Harassment is Not Your Fault

  • Read the National Study on Street Harassment.

    Read the National Study on Street Harassment.

    Learn how widespread this problem is and about possible solutions.

  • What is Street Harassment?

    What is Street Harassment?

    Learn about this global human rights problem.

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    More than 30 countries joined International Anti-Street Harassment Week from April 10-16, 2016.
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    Stop Global Street Harassment: Growing Activism Around the World

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Catcalls, sexually explicit comments, sexist remarks, homophobic slurs, groping, leering, stalking, flashing, and assault. Most women and some men will face gender-based street harassment by strangers in their life. Street harassment limits people's mobility and access to public spaces. It is a form of gender violence and it's a human rights violation.

It needs to stop.

“I started yelling for help and crying as my little sister looked on”

“I started yelling for help and crying as my little sister looked on”

“Abuse of anyone by another is wrong & cannot be tolerated”

“Abuse of anyone by another is wrong & cannot be tolerated”

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Harassment stories shared on our blog

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People who have served as Blog Correspondents

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Countries that joined our 2015 Anti-Street Harassment Week

10

Countries where we’ve run mentoring programs

5

Publications on street harassment

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Stop Street Harassment (SSH) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to documenting and ending gender-based street harassment worldwide. It started as a blog in 2008 and became incorporated as a 501(c)3 in 2012.

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