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:

* Ebony, “STREET HARASSMENT: Every Woman’s War“

* All Africa, “Egypt: Movement Urges Interior Ministry to Put an End to Sexual Harassment“

* The Jerusalem Post, “Egyptian women battle harassment on the streets“

* The New Zealand Herald, “Catcalling – it’s not a compliment“

* World Pluse, “Street Harassment: How it looks like in Afghanistan“

* Huffington Post, “Sexual Harassment: IPhone App ‘Not Your Baby’ Suggests Responses“

* Jezebel, “Band of Homeless Men Stop a Creep from Sexually Assaulting a 15-Year-Old Girl“

* Shiny Shiny TV, “Not Your Baby street harassment app tells you how to respond to scumbags“

* Yale Daily News, “THURSTON: How studying abroad made me a feminist“

* Al-Akhbar, “The Widespread Plague of Sexual Harassment in Egypt“

* Relando Thompkins, “Aspiring Humanitarian Joins Efforts to End Street Harassment“

* Video: “Sexual abuse in Egypt is rampant, victims say – An Al-Monitor exclusive“

* Collective Action for Safe Spaces, “On hitting on that cute girl at the coffee shop“

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Announcements:

New:

* Stop Street Harassment welcomes and announces its new board of directors!

* New hotline to report sexual harassment cases – News – Aswat Masriya #Egypt #EndSH

Reminders:

* Harlow Project Seeking Participants For Street Harassment Web Video Series

* METRAC released a free “Not Your Baby App” to provide responses you can use when experiencing harassment

* Sign a petition about ending street harassment in Egypt.

* Stop Street Harassment recently incorporated as a nonprofit organization. Please donate so we can conduct a national street harassment study and gather much needed data documenting the problem.

* Contact Bowlmor and the New York City Transit to complain about this offensive subway ad.

* Activists in South Africa launched a website about street harassment

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

* 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

10 Tweets from the Week:

1. @_MissBre Street harassment scares me. I don’t even defend myself because I have no idea where his head is.

2. @tinydancer06 It’s like the men of Chicago have never seen legs or cleavage before. #doubletakes #catcalls #wtf

3. @psichedelico insert tweet about how much i hate rape culture and street harassment.

4. @timmesa It is getting increasingly irritating to walk by a building with construction workers every day to get to work. #catcalls #Iamalmost40

5. @katyadodds I swear I get whistled an honked at more in Hawaii than I ever have in my life #catcalls #creepers

6. @maps4aid CCTVs to be installed, Helplines numbers to be posted to check Street Harassment in Barasat, West Bengal. http://bit.ly/P2MqVW #Win

7. @ashaberry You know what’s never cool? Street harassment. #funwithcreepers #waitfunisnottherightword

8. @FatFemPinUp Street harassment can be truly traumatic for women & the WORST thing you can do as a friend/lover/significant other is deny them validation

9. @joannajpost #Egypt anti street harassment initiative is awesome – let’s create something similar for #Israel http://harassmap.org

10.  @MeLaMachinko The age old ‘wear your headphones even if u aren’t listening to music to ignore street harassment” trick… tried & true!