Submitted on Saturday 13th March 2021
Rejected on Monday 22nd March 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Criminalise Public Sexual Harassment
Women and girls do not feel safe in this "developed" nation and the fact that sexual harassment is not yet a crime enables the behaviour that we deeply fear.
We demand for specific laws to be put in place to criminalise public sexual harassment.
In a study conducted by UN Women UK, it was found that 97% of women aged 18-24 have been sexually harassed in a public space. A further 96% of these women said that they did not report their experience as they did not believe it would change anything.
Moreover, this starts young, with plan international UK reporting that more than 1 in 3 girls in the UK have faced unwanted sexual attention while wearing their school uniform in public.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/578940
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