will perpetrate violence. it is a minority but it is an awful fact of life, so how you actually sort that out? i think it is a minority, i agree. but we are hearing about this more and more, aren t we, in the media. which is on the one hand a very good thing. however, the fact that we are not really doing anything about it is very problematic because in a way it is effectively saying that this kind of thing is not going to be challenged in the way that it should be. of course these individual people are criminalised. but the fact that, you know, as we ve mentioned curb crawling, street harassment and there are many other forms of aggressive harassment that aren t taken out, there aren t dealt with within society, you know, at the vigil yesterday there were more conversations
i think the issue is girls, to say to them, you can call this out. you say a lot of women and that the problem is so vast, girls don t feel they can ought to it s so great, there are so many offences against women and so few are brought to court and then so few are actually found guilty that report this? you need some big strategies, girls don t feel they can ought to re ort this? , ., ., ., , report this? 9796 of women have been sexually harassed you need grand plans. report this? 9796 of women have been sexually harassed and report this? 9796 of women have been and i think this is possibly sexually harassed and sends - report this? 9796 of women have been sexually harassed and sends the - sexually harassed and sends the clearest of messages, this is a bit too incremental. will it stop women feeling unsafe happening daily and nothing is being on the streets tonight? no. done. we absolutely need legislation will it stop women feeling to send that clear message. until we unsafe o
need to have buy in from health in orderfor it not to be paper strategy, it needs to deliver whole system changes which it the government says it wants. that means every part of government and every agency needs to step up and make it agency needs to step up and make it a priority. agency needs to step up and make it a riori . . agency needs to step up and make it ariori .~., , ., , a priority. also a promise here to deal with street a priority. also a promise here to deal with street harassment. - a priority. also a promise here to deal with street harassment. for| deal with street harassment. for example wolf whistling of women in the street could become a crime. how important is that? important is that? there are some thins that important is that? there are some things that happen important is that? there are some things that happen that important is that? there are some things that happen that come - important is that? there are some l things that happen that come under th
universities are also going to look at whether it s right to have nondisclosure agreements if people are sacked because of sexual harassment. so it s across the board. there are a couple of issues, though. 0ne board. there are a couple of issues, though. one is that some of the women s groups who have been campaigning fora women s groups who have been campaigning for a better strategy, although they welcome the strategy, they are not happy about the amount of funding. where is the significant money to fund this and make the resources better? they also wanted to see a law to ban street harassment. that hasn t happened yet. the government says it will consider it, but some groups don t think this goes far enough to tackle an enormous problem. lucas think this goes far enough to tackle an enormous problem. some cities in central china have been deluged with a year s worth of rain in just three days. the worst flooding has been in the city of zhengzhou where at least 12 people have been ki
good news. ithink government departments. that is the good news. i think the issue is that the problem is so vast, there are so many offences against women and so few are brought to court and then so few are brought to court and then so few are brought to court and then so few are actually found guilty that you need some big strategies, you need grander plans. and i think this is possibly a bit too incremental. will it stop women feeling unsafe on the streets tonight? no. will it stop women feeling unsafe on the streets in the next months and weeks? possibly not. there has also been some criticism from women s groups. they have wanted a law against street harassment. if you are to go out on the street and someone starts harassing you, they wanted a specific law for that. the government says it will look carefully at that. but it hasn t committed to that. i think there might already be laws to take that into account. but what it does want is the government wants women to start reporting