In Mexico City recently initiated measures to safeguard security of women and girls by allocating units and special cars for women only in the Metro Public Transport System and the Passenger Transport Network (RTP), as part of the Travel insurance campaign, designed to combat sexual assaults on a daily basis the capital's suffering users of these media.
According to statistical information from the Metro, during 2001 there were 462 cases and in 2003 there were 468 sexual assaults against women.
For 2004, the two front cars of the subway trains were reserved for female and child population "only during peak hours (from 6 to 10 am and six pm to 10 pm).
measures However, sexual crimes against women traveling on the public transport increased. In 2006, sexual abuse was second in the incidence of crime in Metro, according to data from GDF.
Experts in the field, and Ana Falu and Olga Segovia, identified in the study cities to live: no violence against women, sponsored by UNIFEM, that when it comes to violence against women in cities , not only to refer to traditional crimes that hinder women's daily life, such as theft, assault and rape.
In this sense, the right of women to a city without violence, in general, "is not covered by public security policies, and on the other hand, the programs of violence against women, have focused on violence family, implying a significant gap in public policy with respect to this right, "says UNIFEM.
In this sense, the right of women to a city without violence, in general, "is not covered by public security policies, and on the other hand, the programs of violence against women, have focused on violence family, implying a significant gap in public policy with respect to this right, "says UNIFEM.
