Timeline for Development of Argentinian Policy to End False Allegations
Andrea Guacci
November 27, 2024
Link to original Spanish version, with video clips: https://twitter.com/AndreGuacci/status/1861742624870142115
2022
- September 9: We raised our voices in the former Argentinian Ministry of Gender 2019.2023. They did not listen to us.
- Women join in a common front against #falseallegations
- November 18: Deputy Constanza Moragues holds the first discussion on false accusations.
- Legislators begin to open their doors to us.
- December 22: Sen. Carolina Losada receives us and empathizes with the cause, cares, and becomes committed to TAKE CARE OF IT.
2023
- January: We formed the Front of Argentinian Women.
- Media starts talking about #falsegenderallegations
- April 17: Lucia Montenegro opens the doors of the Legislature of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires with “The Fashion of False Complaints”
- May 23: Sen. Losada presents to the Argentinian Senate the first project worldwide that penalizes false accusations of gender violence in all areas where it is applied.
- May 30: First day against the public harassment of men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-tRd-33u0k Fourteen Argentine provinces joined.
- June 28: First call against prisons without evidence at the Women in Chains Obelisc.
- The fear of exposure opens a window to visibility. We open a petition at Change.org
- It is spread from networks and small media that help mass diffusion. We all prepare to give notes and talk about THE CAUSE and not the individual case.
2024
- Massive dissemination campaigns begin.
- Networks, calls, and cases of national relevance begin to raise their voices when they discover that silence enables crime to advance.
- July: Begins the delivery of folders and projects to different legislative actors necessary for the bill
- August: Begins the largest mass email campaign to the
Argentinian Senate and to all senators. Thousands of emails were sent over two months. - Rounds begin in the Plaza de Mayo
- October: begins the conversations for the presentation of the project. We suggest to be heard:
– November 20: PUBLIC HEARING: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQCiWf4Wcxs
– November 22: They announce that the project goes to committee
– November 26: THE OPINION IS OBTAINED
WE ARE UNITED