{"id":19066,"date":"2022-12-09T13:33:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T13:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/12\/09\/government-backs-bill-to-make-public-sexual-harassment-illegal\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T13:33:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T13:33:17","slug":"government-backs-bill-to-make-public-sexual-harassment-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=19066","title":{"rendered":"Government backs bill to make public sexual harassment illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Sexual harassment on the street will be made a crime with jail sentences of up to two years, the government has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A bill introduced by Tunbridge Wells MP Greg Clark will see wolf-whistling, catcalling and staring persistently become an offence in England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Sexual harassment is already illegal but it is hoped creating a new offence for street harassment will encourage more people to report it to police.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-63918059?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Sexual harassment on the street will be made a crime with jail sentences of up to two years, the government has said. A bill introduced by Tunbridge Wells MP &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}