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From Cairo to DC: A Discussion on Street Harassment

March 28, 2012 By HKearl

On March 19, 2012, inĀ  Washington, DC, for an International Anti-Street Harassment Week event, five activists (including myself) talked about issues of street harassment abroad and in Washington, DC. Countries we covered included Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, and the United Kingdom. The YWCA-National Capital Area hosted the talk.

L to R: Layla Moughari, Sawsan Gad, Twanisha Mitchell, Holly Kearl, Dienna Howard

I had enough space on my camera to video tape three of the talks. I hope you have time to watch them and learn about how harassment in Iran is similar or different to harassment in the USA; what activists with HarassMap are doing to combat street harassment in Egypt; and what same-race harassment looks like in the USA.

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Filed Under: anti-street harassment week Tagged With: Egypt, HarassMap, iran, ywca-nca

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