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Two women who are aiming to combat street harassment in France and India talk to Kim Chakanetsa about why they do it and what results they've had.

Marie Laguerre is a French engineering student who was cat-called and then assaulted in broad daylight outside a café in Paris in July 2018. The moment was captured on video which went viral, getting almost seven million views. The man was sent to prison for violence, but not for harassment. Marie has now become a figurehead for activism on this issue in France, co-founding a website where women can anonymously report street harassment.

Elsa Marie D'Silva is an Indian activist who founded SafeCity, an app and a movement to identify, map and combat sexual violence on the streets. Spurred on by the notorious Delhi bus rape of 2012, Elsa decided it was time for women to take matters into their own hands. Her project has now expanded to Nepal, Kenya and Cameroon, and has had concrete results: toilets and streetlights have been fixed, police have upped patrols and staring men have been shamed into stopping.

• Produced by Sarah Crawley for the 主播大秀 World Service

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