Guatemalan women hail single-sex buses

Transport project follows congresswoman’s petition over high incidence of sexual harassment of women in Guatemala City Guatemala City has introduced women-only buses aimed at reducing instances of harassment and violence against women on public transport across the Guatemalan capital. The project came about after a congresswoman, Zury Rios Montt, started a petition to draw attention to the fact that hundreds of women were sexually harassed on buses every year. According to the Association of Transport Users in Guatemala, of the 1,500 complaints received annually about passenger abuse, more than a third of them involve the sexual harassment of women and girls. “Women have the right to travel in safety, as demanded by law,” said Luis Gómez, vice-president of the city’s bus service, Transurbano. “It’s a shame we had to introduce this system, but people weren’t respecting women on mixed buses.” Roughly half of Guatemala City’s 3.5

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