Quito Ecuador: Survey says, 80 percent of women afraid to use public transport

radiohcjb.org reported…Quito seeks to break the silence and denounce sexual harassment in public transport and to this end, the City has installed booths where professionals listen and provide psychological and legal support for victims, said in an interview with Efe Deputy Mayor of the capital, Daniela Chacon.

Victim of sexual harassment on public transport, Chacón speaks in the first person of the need to break with that situation that “unfortunately has become normal”, the time denied that the way a woman or agglomeration transport dresses are used as justification for harassment.

The “Tell Me” campaign seeks to create a “culture of respect and non-violence” and that victims, male or female, lose their fear to denounce, but also aims to encourage witnesses to “speak out and help identify aggressors “.

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It is based on surveys conducted by the UN and by the Municipality, said that 80% of women in the Ecuadorian capital “afraid to use public transport” and that one in four of 25 to 40 years they have been “touched intimate in public transport “parts.

In addition, 67% of women have been assaulted “sexual verbally way”, whereas 65% have suffered some violence or sexual harassment and has changed places on the bus in response. Read Article