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Make public sexual harassment illegal

Submitted on Saturday 13th March 2021

Rejected on Monday 22nd March 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make public sexual harassment illegal

Petition Details

To make public sexual harassment illegal. Me and many other women in the UK have faced public sexual harassment through the forms of catcalling, groping and many more. Change needs to happen and this needs to be a punishable offence. Enough is enough

Additional Information

97% of young women in the UK have been sexually harassed. We as women want the government to take action and make this a punishable offence. We should not live our life in fear change needs to happen


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This petition was rejected

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.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/578940

Sexual harassment could already involve certain offences. If you have been the victim of a crime you should contact the police here: www.police.uk/contact/

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