2024-03-28 19:26:06
86.5% of women have suffered physical harassment in public spaces.
The governor of Santiago, Claudio Orrego, together with the regional councilor Karina Ramos, the women’s minister, Ana Martínez, and students from the Diego Portales University, launched the second version of the Campaign against Street Harassment.
The Initiative seeks to raise awareness and invite citizens to get involved and take part directly,
under the motto Don’t become an accomplice and report it.
In that sense, Governor Claudio Orrego pointed out that “nine out of ten women have been victims of some type of harassment in public spaces. “That is intolerable and unacceptable for a society that seeks to live in standards of civilized coexistence and respect for the rights of all.”
“As the government of Santiago, we are not only talking and verbally denouncing these attacks on the dignity of women, we are acting. And today we are investing 450 million pesos in a campaign that aims to activate all of us in our society”.
To this he added “an inclusive city is a city that respects women and, of course, eradicates any type of harassment.”
In Chile, From the age of 14, adolescent girls begin to be subjected to street harassment. 86.5% of women have suffered physical harassment in public spaces. 65% of people report having been touched without consent. Of this last group, 93% are women.
Campaign for the environment and passive actors
For her part, the Regional Councilor and vice president of the Gender Equality Commission, Karina Ramos, explained that “The first harassment that many of us experience begins to occur from the age of 12 onwards, It is a reality that marks our presence in the public space”
“As a Regional Council We hope that this campaign can speak to those around us, passive actors. that they can become active actors who report harassment, that we transform so that we soon have a right to the city that women can live fully,” she added.
$400 million were considered for digital investment mainly and public roads; and $50 million to carry out a perception survey study of civil society organizations.