Women in Kuwait launch their own #MeToo movement

Kuwait: For the first time in ages, challenging the conservative traditions and culture of “Shame” to speak out in open against harassment in the gulf region, The Kuwait women came out in open to speak up for the first time, in a social media campaign #Metoo.
#Meetoo is a social movement for speaking up against sexual violence and sexual abuse.
 The movement gained momentum in the region after well-known Kuwaiti fashion blogger Ascia Al-Faraj, who has 2.5 million followers on social media, posted a video last week where she said that there is a “problem” in the country.
 “Every time I go out, someone harasses me or another woman in the street, the problem here is that men are not ashamed,” she said.
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ascia • آسيا (@ascia)  Faraj’s video launched a movement in the country to combat harassment, similar to the #MeToo movement, which spread widely in the United States in 2017.
She encouraged other women to join the movement so that they could benefit collectively if the laws in Kuwait were changed.