The 12th annual International Anti-Street Harassment Week will take place April 3-9, 2022, led by our partners Red Dot Foundation/Safecity, with support from groups like ChalkBack, StandUp and Right to Be.
We encourage you to speak out about street harassment in whatever way feels safe and empowering to you, from writing chalk messages on local sidewalks to sharing a story on social media or in person to a friend. Every act helps show how pervasive this problem is and how much it negatively affects the lives of so many people. That increased awareness can imbue empathy and spur people, entities and governments to take action — and ultimately help us work to end the problem.
On social media, you can use and/or follow the hashtag #StopStreetHarassment.
Here are some of the online events organized by the Safecity team that will be taking place across the week.
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3rd April Sunday |
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Carousel on effects of street harassment on our social media handles |
Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn |
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4th April Monday |
TBD |
Point of View @povmumbai |
Online harassment as one form of street harassment. |
IG Live with TechSaheli which is a Hindi helpline. |
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4th April Monday |
8:30 pm IST / 11: 00 am EST |
Sayfty @sayftycom |
Getting home safely: end street harassment |
Tweetchat |
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5th April Tuesday |
TBD |
Safetipin @safetipinapp |
Online social media as streets and deal with the form of street harassment (the topic isn’t confirmed) |
Tweetchat. |
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5th April Tuesday |
4:30 pm IST / 7:00 am EST |
Ungender @ungender.in |
The absence of safe space for women & marginalized genders in their commute to work from home, emphasize data and policy to reflect on mobility and agency. |
IG live |
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6th April Wednesday |
7:30 pm IST/ 10:00 am EST |
Durga India @DurgaIndia1 |
Bystander Intervention |
Tweetchat. |
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6th April Wednesday |
4:00 pm IST / 6:30 am EST |
Rashmi Putcha @RashmiPutcha |
Blood on the Streets – A discussion about period poverty and period stains |
Tweetchat |
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7th April Thursday |
7 pm IST / 9:30 am EST |
CSR @CSR_India |
Effects of Street Harassment on Women’s health, especially psychological health. |
Tweetchat |
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7th April Thursday |
TBD |
@catcallsofnyc |
TBD |
IG live |
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8th April Friday |
9 pm IST / 11:30 EST |
Nu with Safecity @TheSafecityApp |
Intersection of disability and public street harassment |
Tweetchat |
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9th April Saturday |
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Closing post on our social media platforms |
Twitter and Instagram |
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Read the new wrap-up report and view the photos of actions that were taken in over 30 countries for the 9th annual International Anti-Street Harassment Week in April 2019!
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Thank you so much to everyone who took part in the 8th annual International Anti-Street Harassment Week! There were groups and organizations from 35 countries that took action! From marches to rallies to workshops to chalking to online campaigns and media interviews, thanks to YOU, millions of people were made more aware about why street harassment is a problem that we must take seriously to end.
You can read highlights from each day (with photos) on our blog and see the photo album.
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Thank you for being part of the 40 countries that took part in the 7th annual International Anti-Street Harassment Week, April 2-8, 2017! View photos from our 2017 actions and read the wrap-up report.
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Thank you for joining us for the sixth annual International Anti-Street Harassment Week, April 10-16, 2016! Read the wrap-up report.
Together we can let people affected by street harassment know it’s not their fault and they’re not alone. We can inform communities that this is a problem that we all need to care about and address. And we can demand changes.
More about the week. | Here is the press release for the week.
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2015
From April 12 – 18, 2015, Stop Street Harassment organized the fifth annual International Anti-Street Harassment Week with participating groups coming from 41 countries. The purpose of the week is always to create time and space for us to join together in solidarity and amplify each other’s voices and work so that the world listens.
Read the wrap-up report from 2015, featuring activities that took place in 41 countries and 24 U.S. states and Washington, D.C.
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2014
Thank you for joining us in 2014, March 30 – April 5.
Groups in 25 countries, on 6 continents, joined us in speaking out! There were marches, rallies, workshops, sidewalk chalkings, wheat pastings, and 7 official tweet chats.
Collectively we reached tens of thousands of people offline and millions online. We ROARED!
* Read the report
* View photos from our actions!
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What is It?
Meet Us On the Street: International Anti-Street Harassment Week is an opportunity to collectively raise awareness that street harassment happens and that it’s not okay.
In 2013, it took place April 7-13, 2013. Read the wrap-up report featuring what 150 groups in more than 20 countries did to bring awareness to the issue of street harassment! View photos.
Read a post featuring highlights of the week in 2012. View photos of the activism that took place.
Why a Week?
Amazing activists and ordinary individuals around the world work hard year-round to make public places safer but once a year we can help amplify each other’s voices and get global mainstream media attention for this issue by collectively speaking out together.
Why Hold it in April?
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month in the USA and springtime in the Northern Hemisphere. While street harassment occurs year-round, spring is a time when there is an increase in the harassment because of the increased daylight hours and warmer weather that brings people outside. Street harassment is often seen as an inevitable part of the change in seasons, but it shouldn’t be. Spring is no excuse for street harassment.
What’s the History of the Week?
On March 20, 2011, after only a month of planning, more than 2,000 people from at least 13 countries participated in International Anti-Street Harassment Day. In 2012, it was expanded into a week, and more than 100 groups from over 20 countries co-sponsored the week and tens thousands of people participated through online activism, rallies, marches, events, and sidewalk chalk parties.
* Thank you for a successful week of action in 2012! Read a round-up post about the week of action in 2012…also see blog posts tagged with “anti-street harassment week” and visit the Facebook page to read round-ups of events, blog posts written throughout the week. View photos from the week.
* Viral video created for the week in 2012:
* Thank you for a successful International Anti-Street Harassment Day in 2011! Read an article by founder Holly Kearl about how it went.
