Overview

• On Monday at the Chamber of Deputies, national deputy Mónica Macha led the presentation with activist Olimpia Coral Melo and Ema Bondaruk’s mother, Laura Sánchez.
• The bill would create a National Program for Prevention and Comprehensive Response to digital violence in educational settings housed within the Education Secretariat of the Ministry of Human Capital.
• Backers plan to coordinate the program with comprehensive sex education policies, building on the 2023 Ley Olimpia that recognized digital violence as a form of gender-based violence.
• The companion Guía Ema outlines prevention and awareness actions, reparative measures, institutional sanctions, protection steps, and training for students, families, teachers, and administrators, with guidance for early detection and response.
• The initiative follows the 2024 case of 16-year-old Ema, whose intimate video was shared without consent after a 14-year-old classmate posted it in WhatsApp groups, and proponents also urge passage of Ley Belén to address non-consensual sharing, sextortion, and AI-driven deepfakes in the Penal Code.