Keyword: sexual harassment

Leering Glances: The Silence on Sexual Harassment is Untenable

Picture: Leah Green turns the tables on sexual harassment. Screenshot from her movie "Get Your Arse Out Mate". Gillian Schutte - Sexual harassment on the streets is a pervasive phenomenon that women from a range of racial and cultural backgrounds as well as social circumstances experience in daily life. Most men, even educated men from so-called respectable backgrounds belittle women’s experiences of sexual harassment. Internationally, this has led to a spate of new films and campaigns where women are calling attention to casual and more aggressive forms of sexual harassment by turning the tables on men. Their...

Men and Women Protest Sexual Harassment in Egypt

Picture: As seen on The Real News. Video A recent study revealed that 85% of Egyptian women and 98% of foreign women experience sexual harassment in Egypt. Sexual harassment is also being used as a deterrent to prevent female activists from joining street protests and sit-ins. Women are frequently targeted by the military and police during raids at sit-ins. Soldiers and police officers have been caught on tape beating, stripping and harassing women protestors. After several violent attacks against women in the heart of...