You can see from the map that there are only Hollaback chapters in 12 cities--there oughta be hundreds. No, thousands. No, there ought be none, because guys should act like human beings and none of this would be necessary, but I digress.
There's a new one, more or less, in a place you'd least expect---Egypt. It's called Harrasmap,
"A planned website, Harrasmap, will allow women to quickly report instances of harassment via text message or Twitter, to be loaded onto a digital map of Cairo to show hotspots and areas that might be dangerous for women to walk alone.
The data will be shared with activists, media, and police."
Since " 83 percent of Egyptian women and 98 percent of foreign women living in Cairo said they had been harassed in some way — and 62 percent of men admitted to harassing", this is definitely as step in the right direction.
That link above might not work, evidently due to Egypt being a dickwad dictatorship, but you could paste in this URL and get the article.
http://arabnews.com/lifestyle/offbeat/article169982.ece
Try it, cuz it's worth reading, and pretty uplifting. The comments too, they're like a meeting between Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens. Any way you look at it, this is a Good Thing.
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