harassment
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Discrimination, harassment and sexual violence against women remain huge challenges, but feminism has become such a polarised term here it is often levelled as a grave charge, inviting witch-hunts online and censure offline.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
When the men follow them to their seats to continue the harassment, the singer puts it to a halt with a confrontational, “Stop! . . . Gimme a beat!”
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026
It was part of a pattern of police harassment that he’d endured for much of his adult life, she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
In a 152-page opinion released on Thursday, Judge Lewis Liman threw out 10 of 13 claims in Lively's case, including allegations of harassment and defamation.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
Mariya Smirnova, who flew 935 harassment missions during the war, estimated that every one of the 46th’s pilots made at least eight hundred combat flights.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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