A new report has revealed young women are forced to hide in shops and bathrooms to avoid street harassment in Sydney, with three high-traffic areas reporting an overwhelming number of negative incidents.
The global survey of 750 women in Delhi, Kampala, Lima, Madrid and Sydney found catcalling is one of the most common forms of street harassment in all cities.
In Sydney, the three locations with the highest concentration of sexual harassment reports, as analysed in Plan International's Unsafe in the City study, are all within Sydney's CBD and busy commercial areas with high foot traffic.
Central Station and the adjacent Belmore Park, Town Hall and Hyde Park area and Newtown's King Street topped the list for "bad" locations in the Free to Be app - a program that allows women to reports locations of harassment.
