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.
At the end of the 80s, the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo wondered if advances in genetics that made it possible to identify levels of kinship between parents and children by taking samples and identifying DNA would serve to find and restore the identities of their grandchildren. and granddaughters appropriated during the dictatorship. Then, thanks to the contact made by an exiled Argentine geneticist with an American research team headed by Mary-Claire King, he began to work on how to achieve the identification of these boys and girls, taking into consideration that to achieve this they had to solve the problem of missing of samples corresponding to a generation, that of fathers and mothers, in some cases detained and disappeared.
This intervention proposes to make visible the collaborative and committed framework that made it possible to return more than 130 appropriate grandchildren to their biological families, based on the genetic development of the Grandparents Index. Sciences and society are linked to build methods and devices, protocols and regulations, nourish the data and samples that allowed the constitution of the National Genetic Data Bank (BNDG) and thus guarantee the Right to Identity of citizens.