Rejected petition Make public sexual harrassment a criminal offense.

Sexual harrassment should become a criminal offense in the UK.

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Over 97% of women over the age of 14 have been sexually harrased. This is nearly all of the women in the UK. Enough is enough, action must be taken since sexual harrassment has put many people in danger.

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.

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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

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

Date submitted 14 March 2021
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