APAV not shut or consent – The Portuguese Association for Victim Support (APAV) inaugurated this Thursday, “The Voice of the Silence”, an advertising display that covers 25 years to return the voice who does not.
The selection of 18 posters, selected by Edson Athayde, puts his finger in the wounds, old and new, the Portuguese society: the sexual abuse to domestic violence, through child labor, those were the images that over the history of APAV, Portugal forced to do a reality that until then was only victims.
“Watch your husband,” reads a poster that shows a tile at the entrance of a house. Another poster recalls with irony that every year 30,000 women “fall and hit his head on the sink.” They are controversial, shocking and provocative posters, which reflect a universe of 270,000 people to whom the APAV reached out and can be seen until August 20, in Ávila Duke Avenue in Lisbon.
“Over these 25 years, we’ve noticed something totally different: the Portuguese society is now less tolerant of many crimes that were ignored as violence against elderly or sexual abuse of minors,” explained the BALL President of APAV, John Lazarus. “It is a civilizational leap, but there is a huge way to go,” he added.
In this way, understands the APAV, not all paddling in the same direction and political will is meager. In June, the government approved the standing of victims, transposing into the Criminal Procedure Code a mandatory European directive for all member states and that, considers John Lazarus, served “for show”.
“The Portuguese society has lost a unique opportunity to create a status of victim not only be a good legal structure, but also be achievable. This law falls short of these goals because it does not provide consequences for those who violate the law, “lamented President of APAV.
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