Women’s Equality Party shines a light - literally - on London’s harassment hotspots
Helena Wadia
Women across London used street lights as a form of protest on Monday night to highlight the worst areas for sexual harassment.
Led by the the Women’s Equality Party (WEP), they called on leaders to make violence and harassment against women and girls a “political priority”.
The demonstration, which included UV messages daubed on the capital’s streets, was in reaction to Prime Minster Boris Johnson’s promise to invest in street lights in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder.
In Lambeth, Hammersmith and Greenwich, street lights turned on and revealed an otherwise invisible message reading: “Two dead a week, and you give us street lights?”