New Site Will Map Reports of Sexual Harassment in Egypt
28 November 2010
Sexual harassment is a problem nearly every woman in Cairo has experienced
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.
A new website plans to use social media to help women in Egypt fight unwanted sexual attention. The site is harassmap.org.
The idea is to offer different ways for women to report sexual harassment as soon as it happens. They could send a text message by phone. Or they could report incidents directly through the website or through e-mail, Facebook or Twitter.The site will then map the reports with different colored dots. Purple, for example, represents unwanted touching. Blue is for loud, offensive comments or whistling.
The official launch is expected on December twenty-fifth.
Rebecca Chiao helped create HarassMap. She says most of the reports gathered during testing include more than one offense.
REBECCA CHIAO: "What we're finding is that people are checking more than one category. So usually it's not just that someone is groped; they're groped and someone says provocative words to them."
The site lists whether or not a report has been confirmed.
Mrs. Chiao is a former employee of the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights. In two thousand eight the center released a report on sexual harassment in Egypt. Researchers interviewed more than one thousand women, including one hundred nine foreigners living or traveling in Egypt.
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