Day 3 of International Anti-Street Harassment Week was great!
Online, we flooded the internet with messages about street harassment (with participants ranging from Afghanistan to Sri Lanka, from Romania to Nicaragua). Collective Action for Safe Spaces led a tweet chat.
Here’s a photo album (I’ll update it each day). Here are some of the actions that took place –>
International:
PLAN International released a report Unsafe On the Streets: Girls and Young Women’s Experiences of Group Harassment.
“The research was conducted in Delhi, Kampala, Lima, Sydney and Madrid, using Free to Be, a map-based social survey tool co-designed with girls and young women. It enables them to identify and share public spaces that make them feel uneasy and scared, or conversely, happy and safe. In this report, the data is re-analysed to examine questions specifically about street harassment by groups of men and boys.”
Argentina:
Defensor del Pueblo and Instituto de Genero held an event at Ciudad Universitaria in Pabellon.
Canada:
Montreal: Women in Cities International released a report to coincide with the Week documenting a year of events they organized and hosted in Montreal, Quebec. Specifically, WICI hosted two forums in partnership with le Conseil des Montréalaises, exploring issues of safety and identity for women and girls living in Montreal. The report summarizes the findings and recommendations from these forums, which brought together local women and girls, students, community organizations, researchers, and other key stakeholders. These forums were inspired by a project based in Vancouver, British Columbia, by the organization Women Transforming Cities.
Vancouver: Good Night Out Vancouver released the report of their pilot project “Creep Off Text-Based Harassment Reporting Tool.” They say, “This may be the first pilot of a text-based harassment hotline in North America or globally.” Check it out!
Chile:
OCAC Chile invited people to share messages with the hashtag #AcosoEsViolencia.
Guatemala:
OCAC Guatemala did wheat pasting around Guatemala City.
India:
Safecity collected stories and poems using #MakeMyStreetsSafe. Here is just two examples (see the photo album for more).
Italy:
CatCalls of Prato did chalking.
Mexico:
CatCalls of Mexico City did a TV interview on street harassment.
Pakistan:
CatCalls of Karachi did chalking.
Papua New Guinea:
The UN Women (and partners) campaign received media coverage in the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier | twice!
Switzerland:
CatCalls of Berne did chalking.
Uganda:
Linearc Corp in Kampala spoke to people about street harassment. In the first pic, the woman shared, “I most face a problem of sexual touching when am trying to market my things in the park. I think it’s usually because of the fact that they know I can’t just drop my items to react.”
UK:
Bristol: Zero Tolerance Bristol received media coverage for their campaign, including by: Heart, B24/7,
London: Cheer Up Luv posted on social media for the week.
U.S.
California: SSH volunteer Meghna led street action in Sacramento.
New York: SSH volunteers pasted the Stop Telling Women to Smile posters in NYC.
Pennsylvania: Pussy Division’s (Changing to FIST Feminists’ Intersectional Solidarity Troop) Gritty images were covered by various media outlets, including: BillyPenn, CBS3 Philly, and Talk Radio 1210 WPHT.
Washington, DC/Virginia: We joined WMATA, CASS, Rally Against Rape, Arlington Commission on the Status of Women and Safecity in flyering at five metro stations with flyers that match our new PSA campaign! I did a media interview for NBC4 and it was also covered by ABC7 and Fox5.
