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Brazilian women react after sexual comments are directed at a 12-year-old girl

Women in Brazil are reflecting on their own childhood experiences - and sharing these stories on the internet in big numbers. It begun with a sordid episode on Twitter as the nation watched the junior version of Masterchef, the globally popular TV cooking competition. One of the contestants on the programme was 12-year-old Valentina Shulz and during one episode, several men started tweeting suggestive messages about her online using the show's hashtag. "Does anyone know the Twitter of Valentina? She will date me if she wants it or not," wrote one user. "If she wants it, it's not paedophilia

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‘Enough with the catcalls’: Meet the woman making a street harassment map

Source: The Telegraph

The site started in São Paulo but has gone nationwide. It's had such a dramatic response that in 2014 the Clinton Foundation and Cosmopolitan magazine selected her as one of eight women smashing the glass ceiling around the world. Juliana, who runs a blog with three other women, hopes the map will now spread to other countries. For Juliana, the watershed came when a friend posted a Facebook rant about being hassled on the streets. “I was blown away," she says. "It was the first time in my life that I'd seen someone speaking about this kind of thing publicly. And after five minutes