Last week, a survey from Brazil's Institute for Applied Economic Research reported that 65 percent of respondents said that women deserve to be attacked and raped if dressed provocatively—and 66 percent of survey's respondents were women. More than 58 percent agreed that, "if women knew how to behave, there would be less rape."

Outraged, Brazilian women took action, posting to social media and inspiring tens of thousands of men and women around the world to reject societal attitudes that blame rape on women. Using the hashtags #NãoMereçoSerEstuprada and #IDontDeservetoBeRaped on Twitter and Facebook, women posted photos while clothed or unclothed, holding signs with the hashtag. 

#NaoMerecoSerEstuprada #IDoNotDeserveToBeRaped @ipeaonline @blogplanalto @CNJ_oficial @ONUBrasil @dilmabr pic.twitter.com/NjZLTCMPEA

— Luzciana Corrêa (@luzciana_correa) March 31, 2014

The movement is rising the same week that a Harvard student published an anonymous op-ed in The Harvard Crimson telling of her struggle to have her sexual assailant moved to a different dormitory. According to the student's first-hand account, the university did not take disciplinary action against the rapist, forcing the student to make a decision to move out of her housing to feel safe. The university's student council responded to the op-ed by starting a task force to address sexual assault policies, according to The Harvard Crimson. 

A White House Council on Women report from this year found that nearly 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted while in college. In January, President Obama formed a White House task force to address the presence of rape culture in U.S. universities.