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Ad Week: How This Poster in a Women’s Restroom at a Bar Cleverly Combats Sexual Assault

A county council in England has come up with a clever and discreet way of combatting sexual violence and abuse.

A photo posted to Twitter (and retweeted almost 30,000 times) shows a poster in the women’s bathroom at a bar in Lincolnshire that advises anyone who is feeling unsafe on a date to ask the bar staff for “Angela”—a code word alerting the staff that someone is in need of help.

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