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March 30 – April 5: Share Images & Flyers

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Any easy way to participate in International Anti-Street Harassment Week (March 30 – April 5) is to share images on social media and post/distribute flyers. Here are ones you can use!

Images for Social Media:

1. Use one of these images as your Facebook profile photo from March 30 – April 5, 2014. Post the images on Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest or other social media sites. (Right click on the image to save it to your computer and then upload it.)

Facebook Cover Images (click to see larger image, then right click to save it & upload it):

Flyers to post, hand out at events or distribute in public spaces.

Side 1: “Street Harassment is…”

Side 2: “Okay and Not Okay” ways to interact with strangers in public (PDF – English) (PDF – Nepali)

 

French | Hindi | Italian | Spanish | Turkish | PolishSingle Half Sheet Flier (PDF) | 2 Per Flier (PDF) French | Italian | Spanish | Turkish | Nepali| PolishSingle Quarter Sheet Flier (PDF) | 4 Per Flier(PDF)
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10 Things To Know for Anti-Street Harassment Week

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Safe public spaces. Freedom from harassment. The right to go where you want, when you want, wearing what you want.

This marks the start of the fourth annual International Anti-Street Harassment Week when people and groups worldwide work together to bring local and global attention to street harassment and when we collectively call for it to end. Together our voices grow stronger.

10 Things You Need to Know:

1. There are at least 150 groups in 23 countries that are participating + there will be thousands of individuals joining us.

2. Here are our events. If your action is not listed, please send me info/link as soon as possible, hkearl @stopstreetharassment.org

3. Here are ideas for action, including how to download the Stop Telling Women to Smile poster, info about a free phone app called Safetipin and details about our six Tweet Chats.

4. The tools page has updated logos in several languages and more flyers and shareable images you can use.

(Facebook cover)

5. Do you want to guest blog or have a blog post cross-posted on Stop Street Harassment during the week? Let me know, hkearl @stopstreetharassment.org.

6. We’ve started to get media coverage. If your action is covered in the news or if you write an op-ed or blog post, please send me the link and I’ll add it to the list and the wrap-up report.

7. Here is the 2014 photo album. Please send photos, or links to photo albums, to me as soon as they’re taken/posted and I’ll update the album in real time. Let’s be virtually part of and celebrate each other’s events!

8.Here’s the report form where you can say how your action went (no matter how big or small). This information will be used for the annual wrap-up report and potentially for articles about the week.

9. The week kicks off in a few hours with this virtual event:

30 March: Pixel Project, based in Malaysia, is hosting a Google+ hangout discussion about street harassment at 8:30 a.m. EDT with Ursula Singh, Executive at YUWA (Nepal), Hanna Lena Krüger, a ProChange Member (Germany) & me. There will be plenty of time for Q&A!

YouTube: http://is.gd/ISHWPixel
Google+: http://is.gd/ISHWPixelG

10. My thanks for your hard work to prepare events and actions so that this week we can join forces and demand public places that are free from harassment!!

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Raise awareness about street harassment with stencils

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Are you looking for a unique way to bring attention to the problem of street harassment…. especially during the upcoming International Anti-Street Harassment Week (March 30 – April 5)?

You could download these stencils by the Philadelphia-based group Pussy Division and spread anti-harassment messages on sidewalks or walls in your community! (Chalk could be a non-permanent alternative to spray paint.)

The idea is you download the words like “Damn Girl” and “Nice Ass” and also the “No” image and then it’s a two step process to stencil the catcall words and then overlay it with the No.

The leaders shared these tips: “We have them on 12X12 card-stock and found that to be an ideal size.  If you wish to use the stencil many times, its helpful to laminate them before you cut out the black sections with an exacto knife or razor blade.”

PDFs to SAVE:

“No” | “Damn Girl” | “Hey Sexy” |
“Smile Honey” | “Sup Baby” | “Nice Ass”

 

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World Bank Report: Gender and Transportation in Nepal

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The World Bank just released a new report, Gender and Public Transport in Nepal. They found that 83% of Nepali women work outside the home and one-third take pubic transportation. The main reasons women gave for using public transportation were to go to work and school and they preferred riding the nilo (blue) microbus.

Via World Bank:

“Whatever the mode of transport used, the number one problem for all commuters is overcrowding. In their quest to maximize profits, drivers cram in passengers who are forced to endure “disgusting and sweaty” journeys. Overcrowding is blamed for personal insecurity which ranks second among commuters’ concerns. One in three women and one in six men feel insecure on public transport. This includes the fear of pickpockets, sexual harassment and personal injury.

Young women aged 19-25 years are more than twice as likely as all other age groups of women to specifically relate their feelings of personal insecurity to fear of ‘inappropriate touching’ with 43% noting this concern. In fact, one in four young women aged 19-35 years had had direct experience of this in the previous twelve months. The main perpetrators are middle aged men and more than half of all women surveyed said they would avoid standing or sitting next to a middle aged man while travelling.

Inappropriate touching is not only a problem for women however, as one in ten men who mentioned insecurity as a concern had also experienced inappropriate touching by other men. Men are also twice as likely as women to have directly experienced pickpockets and abuse from drivers and conductors.”

The study was conducted from September to December, 2013 with funding from Australian Aid.

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