Rejected petition Make sexual harassment laws stricter and increase the punishments

The current laws on sexual harassment towards women and also men is not strict enough as sexual harassment victims are very likely to suffer deep trauma that could potentially victimise their lives.

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As the recent study came out with 97% of women being sexually harassed this needs to come down as this statistic is horrific towards the public this being from a male himself.

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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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We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Increase minimum and maximum sentences for all sexual offences: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/577443

Make sexual harassment a specific criminal offence: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/578940

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Date submitted 11 March 2021
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