SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct 6 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Sosdesaparecidos Association, Joaquín Amills, said this Wednesday that the ‘Anna and Olivia case’ “has marked a before and after” in the fight against vicarious violence and leaves “a legacy” that they are obliged to receive for that “stop happening and stop using children in order to harm parents.”
On the occasion of his presence at the conference ‘Vicarious Violence, another form of Gender Violence’, which will be organized by the Diputación del Común on November 11 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, he comments that there is “use all available tools so that children are not used either in vicarious violence or in parental abductions or abductions “.
“We have an obligation to learn from cases like Anna and Olivia and to be in the fight,” he says in a note sent by the Diputación del Común, in which he also highlights that it was possible to convey what vicarious violence is and what solidarity means and the “enough already” that went viral all over the world.
The deputy in Gender Equality and Violence, Beatriz Barrera, assures that the case of Anna and Olivia has put “on alert” about this type of gender violence “that many were unaware of”, and since this event happened in Tenerife it has not ” rested “until finding a way to act as a public responsible and make visible that this type of violence does exist.”
“With this event, we intend to make this violence known and help many women who today are suffering it and who, perhaps, are not even aware of it themselves,” he says.
Amills will speak at the ‘Immediate Future Challenges’ table together with the director of the Canary Institute for Equality (ICI), Kika Fumero, the clinical and forensic psychologist specialized in Prevention and Assistance of Violence against Women, Sonia Váccaro, and the director of the Chair of Human Rights and Critical Studies of Gender at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and also a member of the group of Experts of the General Council of the Judiciary, María Auxiliadora Díaz.
Amills will share her experience helping families with missing children and share her vision on vicarious violence.
