This UK Ad Partnership Hopes to Help Criminalize Sexual Harassment in Public

#CrimeNotCompliment campaign highlights how often women, especially schoolgirls, are victimized

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LONDON—In Britain, it’s not a crime to sexually harass people in public. Well, not specifically—unless it also leads to assault or another criminal offense—because there is no law that prevents catcalling, creepy behavior or other unwanted, threatening and harmful advances.

There are growing calls in the U.K. to change that. A new outdoor PSA campaign has been launched through a partnership between Our Streets Now, a movement against street harassment that was launched in 2019 by sisters Gemma Tutton and Maya Tutton, and charity Plan International, a global children’s and girls’ rights organization.

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