In her youth, Olimpia´s partner disclosed a private video with sexual content that quickly went viral in Mexico. This episode had emotional effects on Olimpia, who fell into depression and attempted suicide, as she has mentioned in interviews. As a result, she founded the organization “Mujeres contra la violencia de género” in the Mexican State of Puebla and later moved to Mexico City to found, together with other women, the Frente Nacional para la Sororidad, to prevent virtual violence and accompany women who had experienced it.
In March 2014, when she was 19 years old, she filed a bill in the Puebla Congress. After her advocacy, she succeeded in having digital violence recognized. In 2018, she succeeded in punishing those who share intimate materials without consent. Since then 28 states of the Mexican Republic have recognized this crime.
In 2019, when the law had only been passed in 11 states in Mexico, she told her story to BBC Mundo: “People have no idea what creates that kind of violence. They limit your freedom, your privacy, your mobility, your life. And you accept it because you believe you are guilty. That's why access to justice is almost impossible. Every "like" to those publications is an aggression, every "like" is a blow. Every time someone shares intimate content of a person who did not allow it is like a rape.”
Currently, the Front has a specific group of defenders of victims of violence on the internet, which also provides legal and psychological assistance and support.
The project “75 women in 75 years of Council of Europe history” is organised by the Delegation of the European Union to the Council of Europe with the Council of Europe and the Permanent Representations of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
