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Read stories, news articles, blog posts, and tweets about street harassment from the past few weeks.

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Street Harassment Stories:

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HarassMap in Egypt

Bijoya in Bangladesh

Resist Harassment in Lebanon

Ramallah Street Watch in Palestine

Name and Shame in Pakistan

Safe Streets in Yemen

Street Harassment in South Africa

Many of the Hollaback sites

Street Harassment In the News, on the Blogs:

* Egypt Independent, “Movement plans patrols to counter sexual harassment during Eid“

* IBN Live, “Teenager kills self after eve-teasing“

* AFP, “Syria refugees battle heat, dust, sexual harassment“

* What While We Slept, “Sexism & Street Harassment in Brussels and Knoxville“

* Azerby Jake, “Stop Street Harassment!“

* From the Mind of Sister Storm, “Street Harassment 101“

* Meet Istanbul (Not Constantinople), “Street harassment before 8 a.m.“

* Bikyamasr, “Egypt women fearful of attacks as Eid holiday arrives“

* Egypt Independent, “The Sexual Harassment File: Coping mechanisms“

Announcements:

New:

* You can view the full anti-street harassment documentary “War Zone” online now.

* Next Sunday (Aug. 26) in DC is a benefit concert for Collective Action for Safe Spaces

* Young men from Balaken and Zaqatala, in northern Azerbaijan, produced a great video to try and put an end to street harassment

Reminders:

* Vote for Hollaback Philly’s transit ad project

* Activists in South Africa launched a new website about street harassment

* The anti-sexual harassment public service announcement signs are now up in several Washington, DC metro stations!

* Help fund a new film about street harassment

* The Stop Street Harassment book is available in paperback for $15.

* Submit art about street harassment for the VoiceTool Product exhibit in San Francisco, CA

* The Adventures of Salwa campaign has a hotline for sexual harassment cases in Lebanon: 76-676862.

* In Bangalore, India, there is a helpline for street harassment 080 – 22943225 / 22864023

* Report #streetharassment in Pakistan at @NameAndShamePk, email nameandshame@ryse.pk, SMS 0314-800-35-68 or online at http://www.nameandshame.pk

15 Tweets from the Week:

1. @alysonneel @ibrahimep Sadly, as you probably know, street #harassment happens everywhere. But it is a huge problem in #Turkey

2. @aliciapees it’s cool how street harassment has dissuaded me from wearing shorts in public even when its 30 degrees celsius.

3. @lauraY_A This #Eid there are patrols to stop women being harassed in Cairo. The shitty thing is they are not enough. #EndSH #Egypt

4. @ayaelb Another #endSH grafitti in zamalek spotted. This time under bridge by coffee bean http://twitpic.com/aku9x4

5. @NihalSaad 2 rows one for protection and one for awareness. #endsh patrolling in eid in the metro.

6. @aliciasanchez corner of vermont and u street nw, man waves, blows kisses and makes kissy noises. #streetharassment

7. @MichaelaAngelaD 1 of the biggest stresses facing our girls is street harassment-walking to school can be like navigating a mental minefield #YesSheCan

8. @sallyzohney The beautifully brave @NihalSaad is organising anti harassment patrols during Eiid. Go help if ur in Cairo plz #endSH

9. @boodleoops @fynona @EverydaySexism #streetharassment is the reason it took me until I was 30 to have the confidence to go running on the streets.

10. The_MarySue Using #Batman to fight #streetharassment: http://tmblr.co/ZOO-nxRU0uWf #endSH

11. @PUREIDEOLOGY @m_kopas i’ve been catcalled more times than i can count, makes me feel pretty disgusting lmao

12. @MiaElFeky Would never have imagined so much feedback on the thing I wrote about sexual harassment. “I am mad as hell.” http://fb.me/1UCZPZYMn #EndSH

13. @FeministPrncess RT THIS QUESTION! What age did you first experience street harassment? If it’s lessened, what age did the decline begin? For me it’s 12/24.

14. @GrahamGemmell Men. Why catcall? It’s like announcing to the world “I’m not capable of intelligent conversation or subtlety and I’m so very lonely”

15. @natasha_journo writing an in-depth article on #SH in #Egypt, if anyone wld like to be involved please tweet or DM me #womensrights #EndSH #Egyptianwomen