Rejected petition 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.

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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.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

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: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/578940

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 13 March 2021
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