Grandparenthood Index and Right to Identity, link between society and science.

The public intervention called Grandparenthood and Right to Identity Index will be presented on Wednesday, November 15 from 10 a.m. in the University City of Rosario (CUR). The activity is organized by the Human Rights Area, the Science, Technology and Innovation for Development Area and the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo Rosario Civil Association.

This proposal seeks to make known what the Grandparenthood index consists of, a scientific development whose origin is found in the local problem of guaranteeing the Right to Identity of appropriate boys and girls during the last civil-military dictatorship. Scientists carry out their research based on doubts and hypotheses that arise from observation and analysis of the world around them. Many times, those questions that science attempts to answer arise from the concerns and needs of social groups and collectives.

In the late 80s, the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo wondered if the advances in genetics that allowed them to identify levels of kinship between parents and children through DNA sampling and identification could be used to find and restore the identities of their grandchildren who had been appropriated during the dictatorship. Then, thanks to a connection made by an exiled Argentine geneticist with a US research team led by Mary-Claire King, they began working on how to identify these children, taking into account that to achieve this they would need to...