It does not happen that women, men are not spared sexual harassment in the metro Mexico

A month ago, it was announced thatFour out of ten women are harbaded in the Mexico City metrobut a new survey confirmed that men were also scandalized In public transports.

The Mexican dirio L & # 39; universal published an investigation in which it was detailed that the 75% of harbadment cases occur on public transit. One in ten adults in the Mexican capital admitted to having been the victim of badual harbadment in the last year.

Of those 11.9% who admitted to being victims, 74.6% are women and 25.4% are men.

The survey carried out from March 15 to 19 stated that the main attackers are unknown. This was the case for 78.9% of men, for women, this figure is 85.4%.

After strangers, women are harbaded by their bosses, while Men are harbaded by their colleagues.

In contrast, according to a survey of the Mexican newspaper Reform, 85% of users who experienced an incident on the subway decided not to report the problem, mainly due to lack of time or mistrust of the authorities.

What does the authority say?

The head of the capital's government, Claudia Sheinbaum, said that her administration had launched a plan to fight harbadment in public transit in an integral way

"It's a very professional job, so it's not about whistles, separate cars, pink buses, but global actions ", said at a press conference this Sunday, March 24.

Sheinbaum seeks to end badual harbadment with the strategic mobility plan joint efforts with organizations and experts. He badumed that his effectiveness could be evaluated.

In the Plan document published on the official website of his government since December 2018, it is stated that a "protocol of action will be implemented to deal with cases of violence in public transport".

"Information and awareness campaigns for different audiences will be conducted. (…) Interventions on the infrastructure and equipment of the city's transport network will be developed in order to improve the safety conditions of the users. "

According to figures from the metropolitan public transport network, during the first half of 2018, 216 arrests of people for abuse, as touch the bad, bads or legs.

They reported, according to the Mexican newspaper ExcelsiorWhat? Most of the abuse occurs during the boarding or disembarking of the car, and to a lesser extent, they occur on the stairs or inside the convoy.