Afghanistan: What it’s like for women to get around Kabul.
Australia: Why do men perform lewd acts on the train?
Australia: What can men do to prevent the street harassment, assault and murder of women?
Canada: Good Night Out Vancouver launched a new pilot project aimed at finding out when and where street harassment in happening in the city.
Chile: Street harassment is a criminal offence in these suburbs.
Egypt: Egyptian women take back the streets with parkour.
Europe: One in three EU member states have applied legal restrictions on Muslim women’s dress, with almost half having applied bans – including on headscarves – within workplaces and public institutions.
India: Delhi’s all-female motorbike police force has helped reduce street harassment.
Indonesia: A man who groped a woman’s breasts while he was on a motorcycle was sentenced to a one-year prison sentence.
Kenya: FloNe Initiative shared the findings from their baseline study on sexual harassment on public transit.
New Zealand: A serial sexual assailant has been attacking women on Wellington streets.
Philippines: Street harassment became illegal in Manila and Dagupan City.
Romania: Street harassment became illegal in the country!
Russia: Men harass female sports reporters at the World Cup.
Uganda: The threat of harassment (and worse) is a daily occurrence for a lesbian in Kampala, Uganda.
USA: How five women saved a woman from a harasser.
USA: One out of every four young men does not disagree that “when a woman is raped, she usually did something careless to put herself in that situation.”
USA: Girls who reach puberty earlier are sexually harassed more than their peers, regardless of whether they’re engaging in sexual behaviours earlier
USA: A Human Rights Commission report says almost 40% of Muslim, Jewish and Sikh residents of NYC have experienced harassment, including, 1 in 5 Black Muslim women who had been physically assaulted in the months in question.
USA: Sexual assaults on airplanes are rising at “an alarming rate” the FBI said.
UK: Two-thirds of women worry about sexual harassment at music festivals.
UK: More than half of men in the UK think catcalling is unacceptable.
UK: Expanding the “Catcalls of NYC” idea, women in other areas, like London, are writing in chalk the things men say on the street.
