Stop Street Harassment is proud to support a campaign by Everyday Sexism; Women, Action & the Media; and our friend writer/activist Soraya Chemaly to get Facebook to stop allowing people to post content that depicts or supports violence against women and girls. They write, “Facebook has long allowed content endorsing violence against women. They claim [...]

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Check out the report detailing the activities that took place during International Anti-Street Harassment Week 2013 in April! Thank you to everyone who spoke out and participated that week. You’re amazing! Share on Facebook

A new study by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) sheds light on the levels of discrimination faced by LGBT members of the EU community, with important findings related to how this demographic experiences street harassment. According to the FRA’s website, the results of the online survey of more than 93,000 LGBT individuals [...]

I recently discovered a new anti-street harassment campaign based in San Francisco, California, called Don’t Harass Me, Bro. They post stickers in cities to bring attention to street harassment. I reached out to co-founders Angel Quicksey and Erick Orantes and they shared more about what they’re doing: Why and how the campaign started: After experiencing [...]

This is cross-posted with permission from the Design Action Collective website. On International Women’s Day this past March, Design Action Collective, based in Oakland, California, produced a poster to highlight the struggles against gender violence. The process of creating this poster sparked conversation within our shop about how patriarchy plays out on the global scale and and [...]

By: Erin McKelle, SSH Correspondent We all know that street harassment is a huge problem and that we must work hard to end it. Street harassment happens to (by conservative estimates) 80% of women and because of how prevalent it is in our society and around the world, it means that the issue is that [...]