Reform the Equality Act to protect people by stopping public sexual harrassment

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

From my research, the Equality Act helps to protect women from discrimination in the workplace, such as through sexual harassment practices. This is currently not enough. Additions to the equality act or a new act entirely is required to start to solve the problem and protect people from atrocities.

We all deserve to be treated fairly with dignity and respect. We all deserve to feel safe at night. But the current laws do not fully help us. This ought to be a basic human right but it isn’t. Moreover, so many people are using change.org petitions which isn’t helping as it won’t get recognised easily. This petition will reach Parliament for debate as it is a necessary step to reach equality of opportunity, something good we all believe this current government will want to help us achieve.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

We think this petition would have the same effect:

Make sexual harassment a specific criminal offence

Timeline

15 Mar 2021	Petition opened for signatures
20 Apr 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10

Status Rejected

Rejected 20 Apr 2021

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