The District Secretariat for Women, UN Women Colombia and Free Taxis launched this Friday, March 25, the Virtual School for the prevention of sexual harassment and violence in transport and in public spaces, with a gender and business approach.This initiative is part of the global program Safe Cities for Women and Girls of UN Women, which proposes the articulation of actions with actors such as the private sector to build a city friendly to women.The Free Taxis organization, in tune with the co-responsibility of private transport companies to provide a service that contributes to the construction of a city in which women and girls feel safe, joined this driver training strategy and drivers.➡️Participate in the #FBLive that we will carry out with @ONUMujeresCol and @TaxisLibresCol to talk about the Prevention of harassment and sexual violence with a gender approach in public transport.📍 Friday March 25th 🕓 11:00 am We are waiting for you!pic.twitter.com/qBk226HfO6As explained in a press release, the school has content that promotes non-violent and co-responsible masculinities, customer service with a gender focus, learning basic guidelines for the care and prevention of violence against women in space and the public transport and the main components of the protocol for prevention, care and punishment of violence against women in space and public transport in Bogotá.With the training, it is expected to certify more than 500 individual public transport drivers, of which there are more than 160 registered to date, who will carry out a training and awareness process until June that contributes to the provision of a better service contributing to the construction of reliable environments for women when it comes to mobilizing in Bogotá.A recent report from the Subdirectorate for the Family of the District Secretariat for Social Integration revealed that since the start of the pandemic, in 2020, cases of domestic violence have skyrocketed by up to 59% in the towns of Bosa, Kennedy , Ciudad Bolívar, Suba and Engativá, where greater attention has been given to these cases by family police stations.Only in 2020 the care of these cases rose 58%, while for 2021 the increase was 59%.According to the report, these figures make it possible to identify territories in which it is necessary to increase violence prevention actions and, especially, those that affect families, girls and boys, and women as the majority victims.Bogotá is one of the cities in Colombia that are part of the global Safe Cities program, which is led by UN Women with the support of Spanish cooperation and of which more than 40 cities in the world are part.The program focuses on the public space, in which women and girls fear being subjected to different forms of violence, ranging from unwanted sexual comments and groping, to rapes and gender-based murders.In Bogotá, specifically, 90.5% of women feel insecure for fear of being harassed, according to the exploratory study carried out in 2017, to launch the Safe Cities program in Bogotá.The District Secretariat for Women has promoted various actions within the framework of inter-institutional coordination strategies, to advance in the recognition and guarantee of the right of women to a life free of violence.This municipal entity highlights that violence against women in space and public transport are part of the ways in which inequality between men and women is expressed in everyday life.For this reason, the actions that are promoted for the prevention, attention and punishment of this violence are one more step to guarantee that Bogotá is a safe territory for women and girls, where they can fully exercise their citizenship.We have updated our T&C of the web portal.If you wish to know said update, you can access the T&C by clicking here.Customer service channels Service hours Monday to Friday: 7:00 am to 7:00 pm Saturday and Sunday: 8:00 am to 5:00 pmFor judicial notifications e-mail: juridica@semana.comAll registered trademarks are the property of the respective company or of PUBLICACIONES SEMANA SA The total or partial reproduction of any of the contents that appear here is prohibited, as well as its translation into any language without the written authorization of its owner.