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Last modified on Mon 10 May 2021 12.03 EDT Men who harass women from cars should face criminal charges, a cross-party group of MPs has urged, as the government comes under mounting pressure to criminalise sexual harassment. Labour’s Harriet Harman and Caroline Nokes, the Conservative chair of the women and equalities select committee, have formed a cross-party alliance to push the government to beef up anti-misogyny measures via amendments in the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill. “It makes absolutely no sense that kerb crawling is an offence if its aim is to solicit prostitution,...

97 per cent of young women in the UK have been sexually harassed and yet some forms of street harassment are still completely legal in public spaces. Your arse can be groped on a night out, you can be spat at, have sexualising comments made to you on your way to school and all we can do is shrug it off, pretend it didn’t happen and try to get on with our day. It is a regular occurrence that nearly every woman will have an experience of and now two sisters are campaigning to put an end to this for good.

2 votes Clear Channel has joined forces with Our Streets Now and Plan International UK to launch a national OOH campaign in efforts to make public sexual harassment (PSH) a criminal offence in the UK and change the culture surrounding it. The #CrimeNotCompliment campaign has been created by Plan International UK, a global children’s and girls’ rights charity, and Our Streets Now, a movement started by sisters Gemma Tutton and Maya Tutton, who have been campaigning since 2019 to bring an end to public sexual harassment. The Out of Home campaign has been in development since the end of 20...

Campaigners tell the BBC how they are working to address the root causes of violence against women.