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WANTED: Stop Street Harassment Correspondents

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To make our content even better in 2013, Stop Street Harassment is looking to add up to 10 new correspondents (unpaid) to the blogging team.

Assignment:

Between January and June, correspondents must commit to writing one to two blog posts per month. Topics may include: relevant street harassment news, what typical experiences of street harassment are like in their area, and anti-street harassment initiatives in their community/region.

Applying:

If you’re interested, by January 4, 2013, please e-mail me: 1) your name, 2) contact information, 3) the region of the world or the USA where you’re from, and 4) a sample blog post or short article you’ve written.

If you prefer to write in a language other than English, let me know what language is most comfortable for you and you can send your writing sample in that language.

E-mail: StopStreetHarassment AT Yahoo DOT Com. Address to Holly.

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Para hacer que nuestro contenido aún mejor en 2013, Acoso parada de la calle está mirando para agregar hasta 10 nuevos corresponsales (no remunerados) para el equipo de los blogs.

Tarea: Los corresponsales deben comprometerse a escribir una y cincuenta y nueve entradas del blog por mes, durante seis meses, sobre el acoso callejero noticias relevantes, anti-acoso iniciativas de la calle y el activismo en su área.

Aplicación: Si usted está interesado, por favor envíe un correo a: 1) la información de contacto de su nombre, 2), 3) la región del mundo o de los EE.UU., donde usted está, y 4) una entrada de prueba blog o un artículo corto “he escrito.

Si prefiere escribir en un idioma distinto del Inglés, que me haga saber lo que el lenguaje es más cómodo para usted y usted puede enviar su muestra de escritura en esa lengua.

E-mail: StopStreetHarassment en yahoo punto com. Discurso a Holly.

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Pour rendre notre contenu encore mieux en 2013, le harcèlement, rue Stop est à la recherche d’ajouter jusqu’à 10 nouveaux correspondants (non rémunéré) à l’équipe de blogueurs.

Affectation: Correspondants doivent s’engager à écrire une à deux posts par mois, pendant six mois, au sujet du harcèlement nouvelles rues pertinente, les initiatives anti-harcèlement de la rue, et l’activisme dans leur région.

Application: Si vous êtes intéressé, s’il vous plaît écrivez-moi: 1) les coordonnées de votre nom, 2), 3) la région du monde ou aux Etats-Unis d’où vous venez, et 4) un billet de blog ou un article court échantillon ‘ai écrit.

Si vous préférez écrire dans une langue autre que l’anglais, permettez-moi de savoir quelle langue est la plus confortable pour vous et vous pouvez envoyer votre échantillon d’écriture dans cette langue.

E-mail: StopStreetHarassment at yahoo dot com. Adresse à Holly.

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لجعل المحتوى بشكل أفضل حتى في عام 2013، إيقاف التحرش في الشوارع ويتطلعون إلى إضافة ما يصل إلى 10 المراسلون جديدة (غير مدفوعة الأجر) لفريق التدوين.

التكليف: المراسلون يجب أن تلتزم كتابة بلوق وظائف 1:59 شهريا، لمدة ستة أشهر، حول التحرش الأخبار ذات الصلة الشارع، ومبادرات مكافحة التحرش في الشوارع، والنشاط في منطقتهم.

تطبيق: إذا كنت مهتما، يرجى البريد الالكتروني لي: 1) معلومات للإتصال به اسمك، 2)، 3) المنطقة من العالم أو الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية حيث كنت من و4) بلوق عينة آخر أو مقالة قصيرة ‘لقد كتبت.

إذا كنت تفضل الكتابة في لغة أخرى غير الإنجليزية، واسمحوا لي أن أعرف ما هي اللغة الأكثر راحة لك، ويمكنك إرسال عينتك الكتابة بتلك اللغة.

البريد الإلكتروني: StopStreetHarassment في ياهو دوت كوم. لمعالجة هولي.

 

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“We won’t let the city move unless justice is done.”

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Protest – I Stand for Safe Delhi

Trigger Warning!

Sunday night, a gang of men raped and hurt a 23-year-old woman on a bus in Delhi, India, and then threw her off. She had been traveling with a male friend and he was hurt too.

International Business Time reports:

“The pair, who were returning home from an evening at the cinema, were beaten, stripped and tossed out of the vehicle and are now at the Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi, where the woman is listed in critical condition, suffering from head injuries, cuts, abrasions and sexual assault wounds. Indian media reported that she was placed on a ventilator with injuries in her stomach and intestines.

 D.K. Mishra, a relative of the young man who was attacked, told Indian media: ‘Five to seven people started harassing her. The boy protested and made every effort to come to her aid, but some people caught hold of him. Then three to four people took her and gang-raped her in the cabin of the bus.””
“JNU students lead the way in asking for justice.” Photo from the I Stand for Safe Delhi campaign

The brutality of the life-threatening attack has drawn widespread outcry. One of the many actions taken since Sunday night was a massive protest organized by I Stand for Safe Delhi Campaign yesterday during which students and community members blocked roads saying, “We won’t let the city move unless justice is done.”

Today, the Home Minister has promised to look into this matter himself and said that four of the men have been arrested.

Many other government officials spoke out, including MP Jaya Bachchan who reportedly, “was on her feet to raise the gang-rape issue as soon as the House met for the day.

She kept standing for a long time demanding suspension of Question Hour to take up the issue of safety of women. “I am deeply disturbed,” she said…An act of sexual assault should be treated on par with murder and section 307 of IPC be amended to include rape under it, she demanded.

Maya Singh (BJP) termed the incident as the “ultimate brutality” …. “This is not the solitary case…women are not safe in Delhi, an infant of even six years is not safe here, elderly women are not safe here,” Maya Singh said, demanding stringent punishment for those guilty of committing the barbaric act.

Renuka Chowdhury (Cong) said the terrible atrocity committed on the young girl cannot be “compensated by cash”. Underlining that it is the “business” of police to instill confidence among citizens, she wanted to know how the perpetrators of such crime “get away with the cowardice act”.

She called upon all women members to collectively meet the Home Minister, Commissioner of Police, Chief Minister of Delhi and top officials to find out their “action plan” to check such incidents.”

If you’re in Delhi, I hope you can join the mass protest planned at India Gate at 5 p.m. In less than a day, over 1,000 people have RSVPed to attend. Details.

Stop Street Harassment stands with the young woman survivor and with her friend who tried to protect her. We hope for the speedy recovery of both.
May Delhi, India— and the rest of the world—one day be free from sexual violence so incidents like this will never happen again.
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“Should I make a big deal out this? “

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I was on the subway for only two stops, so I didn’t have my music plugged in, or a book in hand to ignore any street harassment that might come my way. I looked across from me and I saw a man, maybe in his 30’s, looking at a girl in her late teens early 20’s whose back was facing me, stroking his penis through his basketball shorts.

I was stunned. I looked at him in disgust, I looked between the both of them with obvious head turns, but his eyes were locked on her. I was scared for her, and I was scared that it would escalate into something much more graphic.

So there I was. Watching a man touch himself watching an unknowing girl. My heart starting pounding as I weighed my possible options. I was the only one who had noticed, it’s not drastic enough to press the alarm, does this girl really need to know that this is happening? Should I make a big deal out this? Should I wait to see if this gets worse? If they get off at the same station, should I get off to tell her?

In the midst of my contemplations, the train stopped, the man got off and the girl stayed on. My heart stopped racing, and I was no longer frightened for this girl. But I was had some guilt. That was street harassment and I feel like I should’ve done something. Because what if this man does something worse and there is no one to stand in alliance with the victim?

– Nisha

Location: Union Station, Toronto, Canada

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One Year Later: Honor “The Girl with the Blue Bra” and Others Like Her

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From our friends at the Egypt-based group HarassMap:

“A year has passed since Egyptian army soldiers stripped a female protester in Tahrir Square, beat her, and stomped on her half-naked body with their boots. The image circulated worldwide and the girl with the blue bra – whose identity remained unknown, but who in Egypt was dubbed ‘Sitt el Banat’ (‘A Woman Among Girls’) – became a symbol for all the other female protesters who took to the streets during this time and were met with assault, beatings, arbitrary detentions, verbal abuse, rape threats, and more.

We would like to commemorate this time, not just for the horrors it contained, but for the strength, dignity, and defiance of Sitt el Banat and the thousands of other women who still face a campaign to deter women from political participation — and who continue, despite threats to their safety and well-being, to take to the streets to fight for what they believe in.

What would you like to say to Sitt el Banat and others like her?

Please send us your own letters/messages to them on facebook, or twitter @harassmap or email at info@harassmap.org”

After someone asked what happened to the woman, a SSH Facebook member wrote:

“She is alive and she is now advocate for women rights! this is a link for her testimony http://youtu.be/QxoZoQqTRQg (Arabic) She is activist and member in 6th October political movement.”

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“I’m stared at, followed, or made to feel uncomfortable”

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Because there just isn’t enough creepiness on the London public transport system already, this week the Evening Standard’s Rosamund Urwin helpfully wrote a guide to ‘love on the lines.‘

Having written brilliantly about street harassment in the past, I’m really disappointed that Urwin doesn’t see why yet another attempt at making people think of the London underground as a legitimate chat-up environment is a problem. Pretty much every time I take the tube, I’m stared at, followed, or made to feel uncomfortable by men who feel their behaviour is appropriate; we really don’t need any further incentives to it.

– Jen

Location: London, UK

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