Calling time on street harassment: 'He said: "I’d break the law for you." I was 13'

Calling time on street harassment: 'He said: "I’d break the law for you." I was 13'

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Rape threats, racist slurs, being followed home, just some of the things that women and girls are subjected to on a daily basis. But there is a growing generation of young women who are no longer prepared to put up with it and have launched a campaign to make street harassment illegal. On-the-spot fines were introduced in France in 2018, but could it make a difference in the UK? 
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