Read stories, news articles, blog posts, and tweets about street harassment from the past few weeks. ** Sign up to receive a monthly e-newsletter from Stop Street Harassment *** Street Harassment Stories: Share your story! You can read street harassment stories on the Web at: Stop Street Harassment Blog HarassMap in Egypt Bijoya in Bangladesh [...]

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I am too excited to go to bed after reading this news article. What a great activism story! Perhaps cultural change and legal change around street harassment will happen sooner than we think. Via The Voice of Russia: “[A new group called] RosNahal which roughly translates to “brazen Russian”… is responsible for a viral Russian [...]

Last week, a street harasser in Egypt murdered a 16-year-old woman after she stood up to him. Outraged, students at the nearby Assiut University held a protest in her memory. Via the Daily News Egypt: “Mustafa is not the victim of her harasser and murderer, but the victim of an entire society which blacklists any [...]

Image via the Village Voice In New York City, the police department receives more than 1,000 complaints about public lewdness or forcible sexual touching each year…and these are vastly under-reported crimes. Because of this problem, new state legislation was recently introduced that would give offenders found guilty of unwanted sexual contact a felony with jail [...]

Read stories, news articles, blog posts, and tweets about street harassment from the past few weeks. ** Sign up to receive a monthly e-newsletter from Stop Street Harassment *** Street Harassment Stories: Share your story! You can read street harassment stories on the Web at: Stop Street Harassment Blog HarassMap in Egypt Bijoya in Bangladesh [...]