Opciónate participates in the IV edition of the Conference on trafficking for sexual exploitation of the DanielaOblatas program.
Prostitution and trafficking for sexual exploitation have jumped into the digital world, where it is easy to attract girls and adolescents and make them enter the world of pornography. A smartphone is enough to receive the devastating impact of cyber violence against women, from which it can be very difficult to escape unscathed. This and other issues were addressed in Desde los margens, the fourth edition of the Conference on trafficking for sexual exploitation of the DanielaOblatas program, held at the Casa de Colón in the capital of Gran Canaria, around 23S, International Day against this scourge. Opciónate was part of the programme with the presentation ‘Cyber-violence against women: keys to prevention and care’, given by its director, Ana Lydia Fernández-Layos.
‘Working on raising awareness to facilitate awareness of the scope, forms and consequences that these cyber-aggressions have on women and girls throughout the world, including on our island, is vital’, said Fernández-Layos, who presented the Island Service for the Prevention and Care of Cyber-Violence against Women (SIPACM), which Opciónate manages, with funding from the Equality departments of the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo of Gran Canaria.
‘It is important that victims know that they can turn to us for help, whether they are suffering from it or know someone who is receiving it’, she continued. ‘In the Service they can resolve doubts and suspicions, and from it we call for collaboration between entities to be able to go further’, she concluded.
Learning to conceptualize well what happens in virtual worlds; detecting and making visible the institutional and legal barriers that exist; generating alliances between professionals and, finally, encouraging groups and citizens to reject these cyberviolences are some of the keys that Opciónate proposes to reduce them.
