Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
Women in Bahrain – be they Bahrainis or expatriates – have to endure street harassment on a day-to-day basis.
I have been 60kg as well as 100kg. I have had blonde, strawberry blonde, green, pink and purple hair, and none of that has ever exempted me from having lewd comments flung at me in the street.
With the advent of Internet and camera phone technology, photographing and disseminating pictures of street harassers has emerged as a popular intervention.
GulfWeekly did a phone survey of 60 women between the age of 18 to 45 years belonging to various nationalities ranging from Bahrainis, Pakistani, British, Thai, Indians, Europeans and other Arab countries.
If you are caught causing harassment to women as you drive by, your actions and car registration will be reported to police – 999
What is it that men like about wolf-whistling, catcalling or gawking at women walking down the road?
