These Indian College Students' Stories of Sexual Harassment Show It Happens Everywhere

By Julie Zeilinger December 28, 2015 11:50 AM

 From directly confronting their harassers to viral social media posts and even school projects, women are speaking out against street harassment more than ever before. Given that a 2014 report by the organization Stop Street Harassment found 65% of American women have experienced it, these responses are clearly warranted. 

But the issue is one that undoubtedly extends beyond the United States — a reality that a group of Delhi University students revealed in "My First Experience With Sexual Harassment," a recently released Old Delhi Films video, BuzzFeed reported Monday.

While the students' individual experiences varied — from harassment in the home to on the street or in public places — the overall experience is a common one in India. One study revealed 7 in 10 Indian women have been sexually harassed, the Times of India reported in 2012, and an estimated 848 Indian women are harassed, raped or killed daily, according to a 2014 Huffington Post report.

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MODELS IN FRANCE NOW NEED A DOCTOR'S NOTE TO WORK

Models in France will need a clean bill of health in order to work—literally. TheGuardian reports that Lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday that will force models to present a certificate from a doctor that vouches for their overall health and wellness.

Parliamentarians retreated from an earlier version of the bill that would have established a minimum body mass index (BMI) for all models, opting to let doctors themselves decide what "healthy" means for every individual. Still, the onus is not only on them. Lawmakers voted to include a section that mandates that magazines denote photoshopped images. Any altered photos must now be labelled, telling readers they've been "touched up." 

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