Rejected petition Make all Sexual Assault Illegal.

Put a law in place making any and all sexual assault, from unsolicited cat calling to groping and inappropriate touching, illegal and punishable by means of fines or community service.

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This petition is aiming to discourage offenders from making others uncomfortable and to make victims of sexual assault feel safer when outside.

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.

Sexual assault is already illegal, but you might like to sign the following petition calling for a similar action:

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

We could accept a petition calling for certain actions to be made specific criminal offences, but you'd need to be clear what actions you wanted to be made offences.

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

Date submitted 17 March 2021
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