May 2004 - Article Summaries

05/24/2004

Another Woman Murdered in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

05/24/2004

Juarez: Rights Official Blasts Progress on Murders

May 21, 2004

CNN - Mexican Beer Maker Tecate Agrees to Pull Down Sexist Billboards in U.S. Southwest Showing a Cold Beer and the Caption "Finally, A Cold Latina."

See Also: Southwest Latino Organizations Organize Protests Against Sexist Tecate Beer Ads

Added May 20, 2004

U.S. Authorities Send Boston Man to Costa Rica to Face Child Corruption and Prostitution Charges.

May 18, 2004 UNIVISION Network Airs 1 Hour Special on Human Slavery (Both Sex & Labor Trafficking).

Added May 18, 2004

Attorney General John Ashcroft Issues First Annual Report on Human Trafficking

Added May 17, 2004

Latin American Immigrant Women Cleaning Workers Face Sexual Harassment, Sexual Coercion and Retaliatory Firing in Arlington, Virginia Federal Office Building.

May 16, 2004

World Vision Launches Web Site to Fight Child Sex Tourism in Costa Rica and Elsewhere.

www.stopchildtourism.org

Added May 16, 2004

Mexican Girl Sexual Slavery Victims in New Jersey Awarded $135,000 Restitution by Federal Court.

Added May 16, 2004

Conservative Anti Trafficking Activist Dr. Donna Hughes Analyses the Abu Ghraib Prison Abuse Scandal.

Added May 16, 2004

California Legislator Pushes Law Defining Child Prostitutes as Abuse Victims.

May 10, 2004

Thirteen Year
Old Girl from Guatemala

"Lost" by Mexican Immigration During Deportation.

May 10, 2004

Added May 16, 2004

Guatemalan Teen, 17, Kidnapped When Mother's Payment Was $100 Short of the $2,500 She Was Supposed to Pay  Smugglers to Bring Him from Central America to Southern California.

May 10, 2004

Southwest Latino Organizations Organize Protests Against Sexist Tecate Beer Ads

May 6, 2004

Texas Professor Calls for International Help to Stop the Serial Murder of Women in Ciudad Juarez (Juarez City), Mexico. 

...The killings - the most recent about two weeks ago - are allowed to continue and go unsolved largely because
the women are typically poor and without political power and because
of a more general lack of respect for women in the culture.

May 3, 2004

In an Operation Aimed at Protecting Ciudad Juarez (City) Women, City Police Detained 12 People on Charges Including Public Harassment of Women on Busses.

May 3, 2004

UNIVISION Network  Covers the Case of Pregnant Latin American Women Trafficked into the United States by Adoption Agencies.

More on this Issue.

May 3, 2004

'Modern-Day Slavery' Prompts Activist Rescue Efforts in the Greater Washington, DC Region.  Many Immigrant Women Face Labor Abuses, Stolen Wages, Rape and Enslavement.