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Activist Tarana Burke 鈥� in 2006 in an effort to help give a voice to who were victims of sexual abuse.

Before it became a worldwide phenomenon in hashtag form, used the phrase "" to help form a community around sexual assault victims. In 2006, Burke founded , an organization dedicated to the health and well-being of young women of color, and coined the phrase after a girl revealed her experience with sexual assault.
In October of 2017, the and each published stories about high-profile women, including actress Ashley Judd, and Italian actor and director Asia Argento, who said they had been sexually assaulted by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Later that month, actor Alyssa Milano heard around the world and #MeToo was born. It was tweeted almost in 24 hours.
The has gained steam over the past year, bringing down politicians, CEOs, and powerful men in Hollywood听while launching about sexual harassment. More women are speaking out about their experiences and some countries have subsequently introduced new legislation or changed their policies and laws around .
To get the international scope of the #MeToo movement, 爆料TV combed through and from outlets around the world. Click through to see how the hashtag has inspired global change.
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1 / 50Activist Tarana Burke 鈥� in 2006 in an effort to help give a voice to who were victims of sexual abuse.
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2 / 50Tarana Burke, left, and Ashley Judd spoke onstage at 鈥淭ime鈥檚 Up鈥� on April 28, 2018, during the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. On Oct. 5, 2017, ran a piece detailing Judd鈥檚 account of the sexual harassment she endured from Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. In May, Judd suing the media mogul for harming her career because she shunned his sexual advances.
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3 / 50A little over a week after the New York Times story was published, : 鈥淚f you鈥檝e been sexually harassed or assaulted, write 鈥榤e too鈥� to this tweet.鈥�
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4 / 50Victims of sexual violence and their supporters protested during a #MeToo march in Hollywood, California on Nov. 12, 2017. A day after Alyssa Milano tweeted about sexual assault, nearly joined her in sharing the hashtag #MeToo.
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5 / 50Actress Rose McGowan spoke at The Women鈥檚 Convention in Detroit on Oct.听27, 2017. McGowan shortly after Ashley Judd鈥檚 story went public. After making the accusation, she .
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6 / 50Italian actor and director Asia Argento, center, who of sexual assault, marched听with Rose McGowan, in the 鈥淣on Una Di Meno鈥濃�擭ot One (Woman) Less鈥攎ovement on March 8, 2018, as part of International Women's Day in Rome.
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7 / 50Asia Argento, who previously , and alongside director and screenwriter Ava Duvernay at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 19, 2018. was Italy鈥檚 call to men and women to speak out about their sexual abuse experiences.
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8 / 50On Oct. 15, 2017, Icelandic pop singer Bjork that she was sexually harassed by a Danish director. Lars Von Trier admitted on the set of 鈥淒ancer in the Dark,鈥� but he denies allegations of sexual harassment. 听听
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9 / 50Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney, pictured at the 2012 Olympics in London, joined the #MeToo movement on Oct. 18, 2017. Maroney of molesting her from the age of 13. Earlier this year, Nasser was convicted of sexual abuse and after more than 160 girls and women came forward.
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10 / 50French journalist spoke during an interview with Agence France-Presse on Oct.16, 2017 in New York. Muller created the hashtag (rat out your pig), the French equivalent of #MeToo, to recount how her former boss had called her 鈥渕y type of woman鈥� and then commented on her breasts.
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11 / 50Women held placards reading 鈥淗arassment means no鈥� and 鈥淚n France, a rape every eight minutes鈥� as people gathered at the Old Port of Marseille in southern France, on Oct.听29, 2017. Hundreds gathered to denounce harassment, sexual assault, and rape after women started sharing their stories under the hashtags and #metoo.
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12 / 50French activist Jean-Baptiste Redde held a placard as protesters took part in a gathering against gender-based and sexual violence called by the , on the Place de la R茅publique square in Paris on Oct. 29, 2017, after the #MeToo movement spread to France.
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13 / 50Eva Joly, front center, a French member of the European Parliament, held up a placard reading 鈥�#MeToo鈥� during a debate about on the third day of the European Parliament's plenary session in Strasbourg, France, on Oct. 25, 2017.
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14 / 50Spanish MEP Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, left, showed听her support of the movement with a (#metoo) sign during the sexual harassment and abuse debate at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Oct.听25, 2017.
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15 / 50Women held placards reading 鈥淛ustice for women鈥� during a demonstration to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Nov. 25, 2017, at the Puerta del Sol square in Madrid.
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16 / 50Demonstrators participated in the organized by Tarana Burke outside the CNN building on Nov. 12, 2017, in Los Angeles.
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17 / 50Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, center, spoke at a press conference on sexual harassment in Congress on Nov.听15, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Gillibrand and Rep. Jackie Speier, second from left, introduced bipartisan legislation to in Congress. In May, Gillibrand to act on the legislation.
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18 / 50Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander was among nearly 600 Swedish actresses who in November of 2017 that called upon the Swedish film and theater industry to do more to protect women from sexual abuse.
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19 / 50People held torches during a rally in support of #MeToo and for all victims of sexual offenses in Stockholm, Sweden on Jan. 14, 2018. Protests were organized in towns and cities throughout Sweden.
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20 / 50Swedish MEP Linnea Engstrom supported听the #MeToo movement at the European Parliament meeting on sexual assault in France on Oct. 25, 2017. The Swedish Parliament proposed legislation in December of 2017 that would for sexual contact. The law passed on May 23 and on July 1. The new law states thaxt a person 鈥渨ho, with a person who is not participating freely, has sexual intercourse鈥� is guilty of rape.
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21 / 50A woman marched听at the #MeToo rally on Dec. 9, 2017, in New York. Time magazine named as Person of the Year in December of 2017. They cited those in the #MeToo movement, along with others who have come forward with their sexual assault and harassment experiences.
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22 / 50Demonstrators participated in the Women's March for Truth on Jan. 20, 2018 in St Louis, Missouri. One year after women and their supporters rallied in the in American history, demonstrators gathered again to raise awareness for women's issues.
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23 / 50broke taboos in Japan when she went public in 2017 with accusations that a television newsman raped her in 2015. in 2018 that the global #MeToo movement has provided an opening in Japanese media to discuss and raise awareness about sexual harassment and assault.
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24 / 50Former Samsung employee-turned-lawyer Lee Eun-eui is pictured in Seoul on March 15, 2018. and won a harassment case against her boss before becoming a lawyer. Lee, who defends victims of sexual abuse, said she hopes the #MeToo movement will inspire more people to stand up for women who are victims of sexual harassment or abuse.
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25 / 50A South Korean demonstrator held a small banner during a rally in Seoul to mark International Women's Day as part of the country's #MeToo movement on March 8, 2018. The #MeToo movement has , which remains socially conservative and patriarchal in many respects.
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26 / 50Maneka Gandhi, center, India鈥檚 minister for women and child development, participated in听a fast in New Delhi on April 12, 2018. Gandhi in 2017 demanding they adhere to India鈥檚 sexual harassment legislation passed in 2013. Gandhi also (sexual harassment electronic box) as a way for people to register their harassment complaints online.
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27 / 50A female student is pictured on Jan. 17, 2018, in a classroom at Beihang University in Beijing. The university recently removed a professor from his position as vice-director of the graduate school after an investigation established he had . The hashtags became trending topics on Weibo, with many more people speaking about their assaults in the forums, including .
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28 / 50A news report showed听Kim Ji-eun, a secretary of Ahn Hee-jung, at a railway station in Seoul on March 6, 2018. Ahn, the of the ruling Democratic Party stepped down and announced his retirement from politics after Kim accused him of multiple rapes. She said she was encouraged to speak up because of the #MeToo movement.
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29 / 50British Prime Minister Theresa May , Britain鈥檚 First Secretary of State, to resign after he was untruthful about pornography found on an office computer. Following multiple allegations of sexual harassment in the Houses of Parliament, May said the disciplinary regime 鈥渓acked teeth鈥� and needed strengthening.
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30 / 50Orla Dean, 5, held听a placard during the at Richmond Terrace, opposite Downing Street, on Jan. 21, 2018 in London. The Time's Up Women's March marks the one-year anniversary of the first Women's March in London.
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31 / 50Members use听the facilities at London's first , The AllBright, in central London on Feb. 28, 2018. A refuge for gentlemen over centuries, women are now having their turn to enjoy private members clubs鈥攅ffectively harnessing a British tradition of female activism renewed by the #MeToo movement.
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32 / 50Activists held signs outside the Department of Education on Jan.听25, 2018, in Washington, D.C. Advocates seeking to overturn the Trump administration鈥檚 decision to roll back Title IX guidelines on how to respond to students who experience sexual violence and harassment.
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33 / 50From left, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Rep. Madeleine Bordallo, Rep. Susan Davis, and other prior to President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address on Jan. 30, 2018 in Washington, D.C. in support the #MeToo movement and Times Up initiative.
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34 / 50Hollywood actresses announced at the beginning of 2018. Actresses America Ferrera, Eva Longoria, Reese Witherspoon, and producer Shonda Rhimes joined with 300 others in the entertainment industry to create the initiative to address systemic sexual harassment in Hollywood and workplaces across the country. 听听
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35 / 50From left, Reese Witherspoon, Eva Longoria, Salma Hayek, and Ashley Judd posed at听the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 7, 2018, in Beverly Hills, California. to the awards ceremony to protest sexual harassment and raise awareness for Time's Up.
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36 / 50Oprah Winfrey accepted听the 2018 Cecil B. DeMille Award鈥攁s the first black woman to receive the award鈥攄uring the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards. , Winfrey addressed racism and sexism saying women had spent 鈥渢oo many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men.鈥� She added, 鈥淔or too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men. But their time is up.鈥�
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37 / 50Actress Lupita Nyong'o wore a Time鈥檚 Up pin alongside actor Sam Rockwell at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts听in London on Feb.听18, 2018. The Mexican-born Kenyan actress wrote about being .
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38 / 50Women held fans that read 鈥淣ao e Nao鈥� or 鈥淣o means No鈥� during Carnival season in Rio de Janeiro on Feb. 7, 2018. distributed temporary tattoos and visual slogans to raise awareness about sexual harassment during Carnival.
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39 / 50People took part in the Women's March rally in Jakarta, Indonesia on March 3, 2018. The participants were demonstrating for equal rights and an end to violence against women. In January of 2018, an Indonesian woman with a CCTV video of a man groping her in public after she said police officers did not take her complaints seriously. The video went viral and the suspect was arrested.
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40 / 50Women marched on International Women's Day in Santiago, Chile, on March 8, 2018. In 2017, Chile ended its , but the government issued rules earlier this year that could . 听
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41 / 50French actress Catherine Deneuve received criticism for naysaying the #MeToo movement, and apologized to victims of sexual assault earlier this year. She was 1听of 100 prominent French women who defending men's freedom to 鈥渉it on'鈥� women.
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42 / 50Miss Universe 2017 Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters posed听with a South African flag at O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg after arriving home to South Africa for the first time after being crowned on Jan. 24, 2018. Nel-Peters used her platform to start the #Unbreakable campaign, which is aimed at training women to handle sexual harassment, assault, and other threatening situations. 听
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43 / 50Ireland voted by a landslide to in a landmark referendum hailed by Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Saturday as a 鈥渜uiet revolution.鈥� The ruling triggered scenes of jubilation in at Dublin Castle on May 26, 2018. Final results showed 66% of voters backed repealing the constitutional ban on terminations in what has traditionally been a staunchly Catholic country. 听
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44 / 50Saudi woman Sabika Habib drove her car through the streets of Khobar City on her way to the Kingdom of Bahrain a little after midnight on June 24, 2018, when Saudi Arabia on female motorists. The move, which follows a sweeping crackdown on female activists who long opposed the ban, is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's wide-ranging reform drive to modernize the conservative nation.
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45 / 50Kenyan women in Nairobi on Jan. 23, 2018. Kenya鈥檚 health minister ordered an investigation into rape allegations that male staff members targeted women when they went to feed their babies.
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46 / 50A group of protesters marched听toward听a restaurant after a female client was allegedly thrown out for in Nairobi's Central Business District on May 15, 2018. The lady, identified as Betty Kim, took to social media after accusing the restaurant of discriminating against her.
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47 / 50Pakistani activists carried听placards as they marched during a rally to mark International Women's Day in Karachi on March 8, 2018. After the rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl in January, prominent Pakistani women spoke out about sexual assault in the country.
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48 / 50Women and their children had听lunch at the Cambodian Women's Crisis Center shelter on July 2, 2018 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The shelter provides safe housing for victims of gender-based violence. While the #MeToo movement rises around the world, Cambodia continues to be a patriarchal society in which women are considered to be inferior to men. Activists and organizations aim to , empowering them through education, as well as factory jobs for those who are at risk of human trafficking.
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49 / 50Japanese journalist Yoshiko Hayashi, right, spoke听on behalf of female journalists teaming up against in Japanese media on May 15, 2018.
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50 / 50Harvey Weinstein and his attorney Benjamin Brafman exited the State Supreme Court, June 5, 2018 in New York City. with two counts of rape and one count of a criminal sexual act. He pleaded not guilty. 听
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