Campaign volunteers used graffiti on Pyramid Street in Giza to speak out against harassment. Photo courtesy of "Atta Eedak" via Al-Shorfa

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

Many of the Hollaback sites

Street Harassment In the News, on the Blogs:

* Heeb Magazine, “A Woman’s Guide to Hasidic Street Harassment“

* New York Times, “For Women in Street Stops, Deeper Humiliation“

* Khabar Southeast Asia, “Nepali youth combat “Eve teasing” with awareness“

* Al-Shorfa, “Egyptian women organise against harassment“

* Ms. Blog, “Street Harassment Fuels a Viral Documentary“

* Powered by Girl, “My new perspective on street harassment“

* Good Women, “A Story On Confidence, Compliments, And Street Harassment“

* Feminspire, “A Letter To The Guy Who Catcalled Me On The Street“

* The Independent, “Whistling, pinching, “sweetheart” – it’s all harassment“

* Princess Lasertron, “how a collective of female friends helped me stand up to street harassment“

* Happy Paradox, “A Conversation About Street Harassment“

* The Onion, “Weird, Area Woman Wasn’t Harassed Today“

* Week Woman, “Twitter Reveals How Far We Have To Go Before Street Harassment Ends“

Announcements:

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* Vote for Hollaback Philly’s transit ad project

Reminders:

* 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.@Sister_Storm #streetharassment is alive and well especially in hot weather. I wore these clothes so I wont melt in the heat NOT for your benefit #endSH

2. @Distorted_Moth Oh, French douchebags. It’s sure that if you whistle to me like you’re calling a dog, I’m gonna strip and suck your dick. #streetharassment

3.@puellaradical @sydneyanderson keep men on their own island so they can catcall each other

4. @maropetro I don’t know why I thought wearing a sweater on the way to the bus stop would keep me from getting hollered at. #endSH

5. @ellistuhler Surely the sidewalk-biker who craned his neck to catcall a teenager learned a lesson in karma when he subsequently crashed into a mailbox.

6. @adelin Sometimes I wonder when I make kissy sounds to dogs I meet on the street, if that’s the doggy equivalent of a catcall. #harassment

7.@BlondeonaBeach Why do men equivalent to my dads age feel its ok to yell/catcall/whistle at me and my friends..

8.@nualacabral Just had a dialogue with #Poppyn about #streetharassment. We have to engage the #youth if we want to see change. Powerful discussion. #EndSH

9. @SpookSquad Leaving store about to cross to parking lot, four dudes in black car stop in middle of road to block/yell at me. #StreetHarassment @hkearl

10. @plitter I will never understand why some men think it’s okay to catcall, or why some women are okay with being on the receiving end of it. #ugh

11. @demonista Belgium film on street harassment strikes a chord across Europe http://gu.com/p/39gxz/tw READ and WATCH THIS. “public” domain is still male.

12.@colorlessblue A guy i actually liked smiled respectfully and i frowned at him in reflex before i realized it! STREET HARASSMENT RUINS EVERYTHING!

13. @nehedari wild goose chase in haifa. amazing how “romantic” street harassment is near arab bus station. “I will kidnap u, marry u, make many babies”

14. @habibahamid Hate it. Chased in cities, cars for miles, on foot RT Street harassment and power of hard evidence v @RizMC @helenlewis http://j.mp/NQyOjF

15. @silverspeakers Last night’s #streetharassment started w cat calls. Then… Me: “we’re not walking here for you.” dudes: “Boooo! Unghhh!”