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Truecaller reveals that 1 out of 3 women continue to receive inappropriate calls & SMS – launches #ItsNotOK Campaign

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Truecaller reveals that 1 out of 3 women continue to receive inappropriate calls & SMS - launches #ItsNotOK Campaign

Truecaller has released a report on the eve of International Women’s Day 2019. This report was envisioned by Truecaller and White Balance, an international film production collective. It shows 9 brave women discussing their cases of harassment.

Key stats from the report:

  1. 1 out of 3 women in India receive sexual and inappropriate calls or SMS
  2. At least once a week, 52% of women who received harassment calls gets inappropriate and sexual content, and 47% received unsolicited videos and pictures with inappropriate and sexual content.
  3. On average, 74% of these calls and texts were anonymous, 23% were made by stalkers, and 11% were from a person known to them.
  4. In particular, 28% of women in Delhi reported receiving calls and texts with offensive and sexual imagery or videos on a weekly basis, making it the highest in India.
  5. 8 in 10 women felt irritated or angry with these kind of harassment calls
  6. Almost 40% per cent of them felt troubled, worried or fearful
  7. In the report we also found out that close to three-fourths (74%) of the women has taken measures against these calls.
  8. The most common way to tackle this problem was to block the harasser’s number (92%), search for the number online (62%.) or request for DND activation (55%). 38% of women filed a complaint to the police or named and shamed the spammer on social media (16%).
  9. More than 60% women feel that these calls are made by unknown strangers

The video for the campaign, #ItsNotOk, was envisioned by Truecaller and an international film production collective, WhiteBalance

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