2011 March in Delhi, India
It’s International Anti-Street Harassment Week, and this is the tenth year that I am overseeing global action around stopping street harassment!
Starting in 2007 with my master’s thesis, I began tracking street harassment activism that was happening around the world. Then I began documenting it on my new Stop Street Harassment blog in 2008 and in my first book in 2010.
In 2011, I thought, wouldn’t be wonderful if all these groups and activists around the world took action on the same day to amplify each other’s work and show this is a global problem?
With just a month notice, I organized a day of action for the First Day of Spring – since warmer weather often brings more street harassment. It was a big success and the overwhelming feedback from participating groups was to make it a full week – and in 2012, it became a week.
The week continued on, with our biggest years of action occurring in 2015 and 2016!
Now, this is our 10th year of organizing global action and it’s our most unusual – right in the middle of a global pandemic!
I appreciate so much our allies and partners who have led actions, organized, created change and educated their communities. It’s been amazing each and every year to see what people come up with, to see what impact their actions have.
You can read the reports about what happened in 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011
How will you take part this year?
