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This woman was ‘upskirted’ at a music festival. Her campaign is changing the law.
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Gina Martin was at a music festival watching The Killers last summer when two men kept making advances towards her. She repeatedly turned them down. Shortly after, she spotted one of the men looking at a photo of her crotch on his phone.
She had just been “upskirted” — a term that refers to the practice of secretly taking photos or videos under a person’s clothes without consent in an effort to capture a person’s crotch area, underwear, and genitals.
When Martin, 27, reported the men to police at the festival, she was told there wasn’t much they could do; that if she “hadn’t have been wearing knickers it would have been a different story.” The police officers deleted the photo from the man’s phone and told Martin to enjoy the rest of her night. Read more…
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#Postcards4Families fundraising campaign lets kids help separated families at the border
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It’s hard not to feel helpless as details regarding the more than 2,300 kids who’ve been separated from their parents at the U.S. and Mexico border continue to come out — including heart-shattering audio from child detention centers.
After brainstorming ways to raise awareness about the harrowing effects of the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy, a group of academics came up with a way to help: Writing postcards that accompany donations to help separated families and call on those in power to act.
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View More #Postcards4Families fundraising campaign lets kids help separated families at the borderWhy this woman wants to make ‘upskirting’ a sexual offence in the UK
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Gina Martin was watching The Killers perform at a British music festival over the summer, when two guys kept hitting on her, and wouldn’t take no for an answer. What happened next made her launch a campaign to change the law.
“Then, I saw one of them looking at a picture of my crotch on their phone. They had done it to get back at me for turning them down,” Martin says.
Martin, 25, had just experienced “upskirting”—the practice of taking secret photos or videos under a person’s clothing without consent in an attempt to capture an image of their crotch area, underwear, and genitals. And, as Martin later learned, this practise is not legally classed as a sexual offence under UK law. Read more…
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