National Democratic Institute’s #NotTheCost campaign calls for indicators on prevalence of threats and abuse,and support for those affectedDuring her time as mayor of Lima, the Peruvian capital, and Susana Villarán experienced brutal and harmful attacks and threats. She says they were designed to “diminish my image and make it clear it was not a position for a women like me to try and disrupt that male world of politics and power”.The British MP Jess Phillips began receiving online threats when she started speaking about women’s rights after winning her parliamentary seat final year. She receives daily attacks and has seen online articles in which “people wished to see me raped or reach home to see my sons hanging from a tree as I couldn’t possibly care about men”.
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Source: theguardian.com