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Archives for December 2018

16 Days – Day 9: Retaliation in Pakistan

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Each day across the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, we will highlight a 2018 activism effort undertaken to stop street harassment or a personal story about stopping harassers!

Day #9: Retaliating against harassers in Pakistan

Two young women wearing hijab retaliated against two young men who were street harassing them at a busy market of Peshawar. In a viral video, the young women are seen angrily slapping the faces of the two young men as a crowd gathers. The men had harassed them previously and the young women were fed up! Eventually, the young men fled the scene.

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16 Days – Day 8: Don’t Touch Me!

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Each day across the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, we will highlight a 2018 activism effort undertaken to stop street harassment or a personal story about stopping harassers!

Day #8: Don’t Touch Me!!

After a man groped Emelia Holden in a restaurant in Georgia, she turned around, grabbed him by his collar and slammed him onto the counter shouting, “You don’t touch me motherf—!” It was all caught on video.

She said later, “I didn’t even think, I just reacted.”

She told a coworker to call the police and the man was arrested and charged with sexual battery.

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16 Days – Day 7: A Job for a Woman

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Each day across the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, we will highlight a 2018 activism effort undertaken to stop street harassment or a personal story about stopping harassers!

Day #7: A Job for a Woman

Image via BBC

In Belgium, sexism in public places is illegal under a law passed in 2014. This year, the first charge was made using the law. A female police officer questioned a man after he jaywalked, and he said in response to her, “Shut your mouth, I don’t talk to women, being a police officer is not a job for women.” Apparently it IS a job for women (more than 30 percent of Belgium’s 40,000 police officers are women), and she arrested him. He was fined 3,000 euros.

Sexism, according to the law, is defined as “every gesture or deed” that is “clearly meant to express contempt of a person based on sex,” or considers a person inferior based on sex, or reduces a person solely to a sexual dimension, and which “gravely affects the dignity of that person as a result.”

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