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Last Updated on Mayo 6 / May 6, 2009 |
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A 'Femicide' is Taking
Hundreds of Lives
in the Juarez
City, Chihuahua State, Mexico and El Paso, Texas (U.S.) Border Region
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End this
violence against women now!
Not even one more victim!! |
Femicide in Ciudad Juarez,
Mexico
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Mexico, Chile
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Three mothers testified in Chile
against the state of Mexico for their daughters' murders.
(From left to right) Josefina
Gonazalez, U.N representative Florenti Melendez,
Irma Monreal, and Benita Monarrez.
Photo by Maria Grusauskas - The Santiago Times |
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Estado mexicano espera sentencia por feminicidio en Juárez
CoIDH juzga tres asesinatos de Campo Algodonero
México DF - El
gobierno es internacionalmente responsable por la desaparición y muerte de
Esmeralda Herrera Monreal, Claudia Ivette González y Laura Berenice Ramos
Monárrez, cuyos cuerpos, torturados y abusados sexualmente, fueron tirados en el
predio Campo Algodonero, en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
El gobierno no las
protegió, no previno sus asesinatos, aunque conocía el patrón de violencia de
género en la región, que ha dejado cientos de mujeres y niñas asesinadas, y las
autoridades de Ciudad Juárez no respondieron a las denuncias.
Esa es la acusación
que hicieron ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CoIDH) Irma
Monreal, Josefina González y Benita Monárrez, madres de las víctimas, quienes
esperaron ocho años para que sus testimonios fueran escuchados por autoridades
judiciales sin sorna ni escepticismo...
Nancy Betán Santana, Guadalupe Gómez Quintana
CIMAC Noticias
News for Women
May 04, 2009
Update: Juárez, Mexico femicides trial in Chile
Mexico Has
Until June To Comply With Court Orders
On April 29 the
Inter-American Commission of Human Rights in Santiago ruled that the State of
México is responsible for the hundreds of femicides that have taken place in
Juárez, Mexico over the past 15 years. The court will next review the statements
and documents provided by the state of México between June 1 and November 2009
and will make its final verdict in November.
The Santiago Times
May 4, 2009
Mexico
Lawsuit blames Mexican government for Juarez femicides
A collection of legal and human
rights organizations are suing the Mexican government before an international
court for failing to adequately investigate the torture and killings of women in
Ciudad Juarez. It is thought that more than 500 women have been killed in Juarez
since 1993.
The lawsuit before the
Inter-American Court on Human Rights blames the federal government for failing
to prevent the kidnapping, torture, and killing of eight women, specifically,
whose bodies were found in November, 2001. All displayed clear signs of torture.
The groups bringing the lawsuit
include the National Association of Democratic Lawyers and the Committee of
Latin America for the Defense of the Rights of Women, among others.
Ariel Dulitzky, a University of
Texas professor and legal advisor to the groups bringing the lawsuit, said the
complaint alleges the locals and state police didn’t maintain crime scenes
properly and didn’t identify the bodies until six and seven years later…
“Today, seven years later,
there is nobody being prosecuted for these killings,” Dulitzky said.
He expects the case to be
decided by September or November of this year.
The San Antonio Current
May 5, 2009
Added: March
14, 2009
Mexico
Calderon Rejects
‘Absurd’ Reports on Mexico Drug War
Mexican President Felipe Calderon
delivered his strongest defense yet of his
government’s fight against drug cartels,
alleging some U.S. officials are corrupt and
accusing the media of lying.
“To say that Mexico doesn’t have
authority over all of its national territory is
absolutely false and absurd,” Calderon said
today in Mexico City.
Mexico hasn’t lost any territory to
traffickers, Calderon said. He criticized the
media for mounting a campaign of “lies” against
Mexico. His comments come two days after Dennis
Blair, U.S. Director of National Intelligence,
said Mexico isn’t in charge of parts of the
country…
“How can you explain a drug market so
large in the U.S. -- the
largest market in the world -- without the
corruption of certain U.S. authorities,”
Calderon said…
Drug war-related deaths reached a
record 6,290 last year and Mexico increasingly
blames the U.S. for the carnage, saying the U.S.
has done little to stop the flow of arms into
Mexico and to curtail demand for drugs at home.
The U.S.’s Blair told a Senate Armed
Services Committee meeting on March 10 that “the corruptive influence and
increasing violence of Mexican drug cartels
impedes Mexico City’s ability to govern parts of
its territory.”
…President Barack Obama said that,
while he’s concerned about escalating drug
violence, there’s no need yet to send U.S.
troops to the border, the Dallas Morning News
reported…
Texas Governor Rick Perry has called on
Washington to send a thousand troops or border
agents to the region because Ciudad Juarez,
across the border from El Paso, has become a
focal point of drug violence, the Morning News
reported.
At a White House briefing today,
spokesman Robert Gibbs reiterated the
administration’s policy that violence is “not
going to be solved in the long term through the
militarization of the border.”
…Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo”
Guzman made Forbes magazine’s annual
billionaires list for the first time this year,
underscoring the growing power of the country’s
cartels. Guzman, 54, has a net worth of $1
billion, making him the world’s 701st wealthiest
person, according to Forbes. He heads a drug
cartel based in the western state of Sinaloa.
“It’s unfortunate that a campaign has
escalated that seems to be a campaign against
Mexico,” Calderon said. “Public opinion and even
magazines aren’t only dedicated to attacking and
lying about Mexico’s situation, but also to
exalting criminals.”
Mexican cartels sell $13.8 billion a
year worth of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and
amphetamines to U.S. drug users, according to
White House figures. Mexico is the corridor for
about 90 percent of the cocaine consumed in the
U.S.
Numerous high-ranking Mexican police
officials and prosecutors have been accused of
collaborating with traffickers.
U.S. officials such as Democratic
Representative Nita Lowey of New York and
Kentucky Republican Hal Rogers have urged
Obama’s administration to make violence in
Mexico a priority...
By Jens
Erik Gould
March
12
Bloomberg
LibertadLatina Commentary
The recent comments of President Felipe
Calderon, accusing high ranking United States
officials and a large number of U.S. government
agencies of corruption and complicity in
promoting U.S. consumption of illicit drugs
produced in Mexico is, on its face, patently absurd.
President Calderon's accusations appear
to be a firebreak - a tactic in firefighting and
politics where you set a counter-fire to contain
a firestorm. He is hurling accusations to
deflect legitimate criticism that his government
is losing control and that it has a major
problem with corruption, across the board.
Although we are not drug enforcement
analysts, we can use as a comparison an analysis
of the Mexican government's response to the
issue of modern human slavery, sex trafficking
and to the gender hostile living environments
that exist across Mexico, as examples of the
types of results that occur when federal, state
and local government agencies refuse to act in
the face of criminal impunity.
Here are a few of the cases that we
have covered over the past several years at LibertadLatina that
raise legitimate concerns that Mexico's
government faces serious issues of official
corruption and collusion with wealthy criminal
enterprises across the nation of Mexico...
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Crisis Issue #
1
According to
non-governmental organizations working along
Mexico's southern border with Guatemala, between
164,000 and 220,000 migrant women and underage
girls are sexually assaulted with impunity each
year, with absolutely no Mexican law enforcement
response whatsoever. And that is just the figure
for the southern border region. In some of these
cases, policemen are themselves the rapists. In
addition to rape, many of these women and girls
are enslaved and sold to brothels around the
world.
It is a
legitimate concern that Mexico indeed has no
effective control over its southern border
region. That zone is effectively owned by
ruthless gang rapists and well-organized and
well-funded traffickers in women, children and
illicit drugs.
Crisis Issue #
2
In the face of a
catastrophic level of murders of women
(typically involving gang rape, torture and
mutilation), at a level that has required that a
new term be defined - femicide - to
describe the phenomenon, President Felipe
Calderon's National Action Party (PAN), and
their top conservative allies in the Church have
declared publicly that women in Ciudad Juarez
(the mega-center of femicide in the nation) and
across Mexico were themselves to blame for being
kidnapped, tortured, raped and murdered. They
assert that such incidents are the result of the
actions of immodest women who wear short
skirts - and that these horrors are not the
fault of raping, homicidal men who act with
impunity.
PAN party member and former Ciudad Juarez
mayor Francisco Javier Barrio Terrazas (recently
appointed as Mexico's Ambassador to
Canada, for example), has publicly expressed the
idea that women kidnapped and raped in Ciudad
Juarez brought such troubles upon themselves for
being immodest.
When Barrio Terrazas was the mayor of Ciudad Juarez, and later
when he was the governor of the State of
Chihuahua (where Ciudad Juarez sits), he
staunchly refused to form any special
investigative body to address the
issue of femicide . He also rejected federal
efforts to intervene in the crisis.
Barrio Terrazas therefore recently drew a a rebuke of
his appointment as Ambassador to Canada by
Return Our Daughters Home, an
organiza-tion of mothers of femicide victims in
Ciudad Juarez, who had earlier sought
Barrio Terrazas' help to end the murder-spree in
Chihuahua. As the environment of impunity
continues in Ciudad Juarez, leaders of Return
Our Daughters Home face constant death threats
in response to their anti-femicide activism.
The same
conservative and blatantly misogynist PAN
political beliefs are also apparently the root
cause for the fact that President Calderon had
intentionally delayed publishing the federal
regulations required to enforce the nation's
first anti-slavery legislation for 11 months
after the bill's signing into law, thus
weakening the intent of Congress to finally
provide effective tools to federal agencies to
coordinate their efforts to fight rampant sex
and labor trafficking.
Crisis Issue #
3
Award-winning
women and children's rights activist, author and
journalist Lydia Cacho was kidnapped by corrupt
state police agents, threatened with rape and
jailed in Puebla state on trumped-up charges (an
allegation that is validated by secretly-taped
conversations between Puebla state's governor
and one of the richest child sex traffickers in
the country), in retaliation for having written
a book exposing child sex trafficking in Cancun
and the mass corruption on the part of
government and wealthy business interests
involved.
In response, the
Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN)
ruled that it could not investigate, (as the
Constitution authorizes the Court to do in cases
of state corruption) because Lydia Cacho's basic
rights and guarantees were not violated.
When the Court
voted, Lydia Cacho, observing the proceedings on
closed circuit television in a supportive
congress-woman's office, reported that the Chief
Justice burst out laughing when the final vote
rejecting the investigation was cast. This
occurred despite the fact that an Associate
Justice' report found probable cause to
investigate.
In response to
that act, the federal Attorney General's special
prosecutor for violence against women, Alicia Elena Perez Duarte,
resigned in utter disgust. The investigation that
Perez Duarte started into the perpetrators in
the Lydia Cacho case literally vanished into
thin air after the case was passed-on to the
woman who followed Perez Duarte as the special
prosecutor for violence against women and human
trafficking.
Crisis Issue #
4
As Lydia Cacho
reported in a recent editorial, anti-child-porn
investigators in Britain are astonished that the
Mexican Attorney General's office was the only
foreign enforcement agency that refused to
collaborate with their efforts to track down
Internet-based child pornography abusers. |
With this long history of
acts of indifference, impunity and official
corruption, being accusations that are made
daily by congressional members, activists in the
Mexican Women's Movement and journalists, it is
hard to fathom the idea that corruption does not
exist, as President Calderon has recently
implied, and that such dishonesty does not
impact Mexican policy and action against drug
traffickers, human traffickers and the millions
of men who exploit women and girls in their
communities. In reality, the greed of such
criminals and the multi-billion dollar drug and
sex trafficking cartels have taken over
effective control of much of the political and
economic life across Mexico.
For good reasons, we
at
LibertadLatina
focus a lot of attention on documenting news
about the crisis in gender rights in Mexico.
As the gateway for almost all migrants
attempting to escape the gender hostile living
environment and poverty in Latin America to
reach the U.S., as a mega-center of modern sex
trafficking and slavery, as a center for the
open exploitation of indigenous women and girls,
and as a society with a well-established women's
rights movement -
one with exceptional journalistic skills -
Mexico and its crisis is uniquely visible for
the world community to see close-up.
Our goal is, in-part, to translate some
of the huge volume of press and civil society
documentation that exists in the Spanish
language in response to this crisis. Some
academics, non-governmental organizations and
government agencies in the U.S. have
misunderstood the intensity of the gender crisis
in Mexico and across Latin America.
LibertadLatina
accurately presents the facts so that
well-informed decisions can be made by those who
have the power to change the situation on the
ground. That includes general public,
politicians and activists.
The mass gender atrocities that women
and girls face across Mexico, from femicide to
sex trafficking to a condoned culture of the
rape of women and children, must be responded to
by people of conscience across the world. The
Calderon administration has not stepped up to
the plate to defend women and girls. Shame on
them!
The basic reasons why a charge of
corruption is valid against government officials
in Mexico include the fact that such corruption
openly exists at all levels of government. This
'culture of impunity' is one that is reinforced
by Mexico's centuries-old traditions of
institutional sexism, anti-Indigenous racism and
classism, and today allow mass gender
atrocities to occur. It is an environment
that is completely free from any risk that a
rapist, kidnapper, murderer or sex trafficker of
innocent women and children will ever be
prosecuted or jailed.
Last, we are also
not impressed with the fact that President
Calderon has hurled a charge of corruption
against the U.S. during the beginning of the
administration of President Barak Obama.
President Calderon never said such things during
the administration of former President George W.
Bush (who kept quiet about corruption in
Mexico).
It appears obvious that President
Obama's willingness to allow some honesty into
the official dialog about corruption in Mexico
is ruffling President Calderon's feathers.
Now that the discussion has hit a nerve
in Mexico in regard to the realities surrounding
illicit drug trafficking and corruption, it is
time to take the discussion up a notch, and for
the Obama Administration to demand that
President Calderon end his administration's
institutionalized sexist policies and official
inaction that allows mass gender atrocities to
take place across Mexico with impunity.
President Calderon must end the
gender hostile living environment in Mexico
that today denies the fundamental rights of
citizen and migrant women and girl children to a
life free from rape, kidnapping and sale into
sex slavery en mass!
End impunity
now!
Chuck
Goolsby
LibertadLatina
March 14, 2009
Mexico
La ropa provoca,
dice clero a mujeres
Autoridades eclesiásticas responsabilizaron
a las mujeres de ser culpables de las agresiones
sexuales que sufren, debido a la ropa
“provocativa” que visten
Clothing
Provokes Violence, Clergy Tells Women
[Translation by Kristin Bricker]
Ecclesiastical authorities say women are to
blame for the sexual aggressions they suffer,
due to the "provocative" clothing they wear.
Kristin Bricker's note:
The Catholic Church held its Sixth World
Meeting of the Families in Mexico City this
month.
The World Meeting of the Families was
founded by Pope John Paul II. Mexican President
Felipe Calderon gave the surprise keynote
address at the beginning of the conference.
Ecclesiastical
authorities blame women for the sexual
aggressions they suffer due to the "provocative"
clothing they wear.
With plunging necklines
and mini-skirts, "they're provoking men," said
the archbishop of Santo Domingo, Nicolas de
Jesus Lopez Rodrigez during the Sixth World
Meeting of the Families.
Women expose
themselves to rape, to being used, to being
treated like an old dishrag, because they
devalue themselves and their dignity, said the
auxiliary bishop of Tegucigalpa, Darwin Rudy
Andino.
Likewise,
laypersons who attended the meeting said that
women are the ones responsible for physical as
well as verbal attacks. They should dress
modestly and not arouse kinkiness in other
people.
"It's their
fault that they attack them," added Ecuadorian
Alexandra Marcillo.
Renato
Ascencio, the bishop of Ciudad Juarez said:
women should not only change the way they dress,
but also their behavior. Modesty has been lost
in the Mexican family...
The World
Meeting of the Families' official website
recommends that women don't use provocative
clothing, that they watch how they look and
gesture at other people, and that they don't
allow "hot jokes."
Additional notes from Kristin Bricker:
*Ciudad Juarez is internationally
considered to be the femicide capital of Mexico.
While accurate estimates of how many women have
been murdered in Juarez are unavailable, what is
most striking is how the dead women are found.
They are often raped and sexually mutilated
beyond recognition.
Bishop Renato Ascencio's statement leads
one to believe that he thinks women's lack of
modesty causes men to kidnap them, rape them,
bite off their nipples and mutilate them in
other ways, murder them, and hide their bodies
for months before dumping multiple bodies killed
in the same manner in a field in his city.
Is women's lack of modesty also to blame
for the fact that these murders almost always go
unpunished, and that Mexican police rarely carry
out rigorous investigations?
Autoridades
eclesiásticas responsabilizaron a la mujer de
ser culpables de las agresiones sexuales que
sufren, debido a la ropa “provocativa” que
visten.
Con escotes
pronunciados y minifaldas “está provocando al
hombre”, dijo el arzobispo de Santo Domingo,
Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, durante el
sexto Encuentro Mundial de las Familias.
Las mujeres se
exponen a violaciones, a que las usen, que las
traten como un trapo viejo, porque desvaloran su
persona y su dignidad, dijo por su parte el
obispo auxiliar de Tegucigalpa, Darwin Rudy
Andino...
Natalia
Gomez Quintero and Noemi Gutierrez
El
Universal - Mexico City
Jan. 16,
2009
Translated
by Kristin Bricker
Jan. 17,
2009
See also:
La Iglesia culpa
a escotes y minis de violaciones, ¿estás de
acuerdo?
El foro de El Universal sobre el
tema
(El Universal newspaper's Internet
forum about this story)
Mexico
Barrio Terrazas: dejó atrás el feminicidio
y es embajador en Canadá
Las víctimas
ocasionaron su muerte, decía el ex gobernador
Mexico Congress has
confirmed Francisco Javier Barrio Terrazas, of
the National Action Party (PAN), as ambassador
to Canada. Barrio Terrazas once declared that
the murders of women in Ciudad Juarez, in
Chihuahua state - of which there are over 400 to
date - were "natural" because the victims were
walking in dark places and had dressed
provocatively in miniskirts.
Barrio Terrazas was the Mayor of
Ciudad Juarez in the 1980s, and became Chihuahua
state's governor in 1992.
This week, the plenary
session of the Standing Committee of Congress
approved Francisco Javier
Barrio Terrazas as Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary of Mexico to Canada.
On January 7th, 2009
President Felipe Calderón nominated Barrio
Terrazas for Senate confirmation. Barrio
Terrazas did not solve the femicide Ciudad
Juarez and Chihuahua. He refused to create a
special prosecutor's office the cases, and had
received a recommendation from the National
Human Rights (Commission that he be censured for
impunity and neglect in investigating the
murders.
Only the Democratic
Revolution Party (PRD) questioned the
presidential appointment and abstained in the
vote. Gerardo Villanueva of the Aztec Sun Party
added his concerns that Barrio Terrazas had
"done little or nothing in the fight against
corruption in Mexico."
Pleas fall on deaf
ears
During Barrio
Terrazas' time as governor of Chihuahua, a
coalition of community organizations called the
Pro-Women Coordination called for the creation
of a special prosecutor's office to investigate
the crimes of women.
In 1997 Barrio
Terrazas said that "special prosecutors have
never been useful for anything." During the same
year the national Congress set up a Special
Commission to come to Ciudad Juárez to verify
status of investigations.
Barrio Terrazas ended
1997 still refusing to create the special
prosecutor's office. In January 1998, one month
after Barrio Terrazas met with the visiting
federal commission, he finally agreed to create
a special prosecutor's office, and appointed
Maria Antonieta Esparza as its head.
Also during 1998, the
National Human Rights Commission (CNDH)
addressed the case of femicide in the region and
issued recommendations that highlighted the
existence of impunity, and noted deficiencies in
the investigations. For the first time in its
history, the CNDH declared that sexism had
impeded the investigation.
Shortly before the
CNDH report was published, then ex-governor
Barrio Terrazas stated that the rate of crimes
against women in the region were within the
"normal" range.
As CIMAC Noticias has
documented, Barrio Terrazas has always minimized
the importance of femicide, much as did former
PRI (Institutional Revolutionary party) governor
(from 1998 2004) Patricio Martinez, who said
that the women who were murdered had caused
their own deaths.
Today femicide remains
an unresolved issue in Chihuahua state, to such
a degree that on January 7, 2009, the same day
that Calderon nominated Barrio Terrazas, the
organizations Justice for Our Daughters and the
Center for Human Rights for Women submitted to
the Standing Committee of the Congress of
Chihuahua state a petition to activate a
Gender Alert, a law enforcement
state of emergency that is stipulated in the
state's Law Giving Women the Right to a Life
Free of Violence.
The request is a
reaction to the ongoing femicide. Far from being
a settled issue, acts of femicide murder claimed
two lives in the first week of 2009, according
to Luz Estela Castro, coordinator of the Center
for Human Rights for Women.
Since November 25,
2008, the Day of Non-violence Against Women, to
date, media have reported the malicious killings
of 20 women. Fifty percent of those cases
involved domestic violence.
As Lucha Castro says,
"the femicide today has a history, which is one
of neglect and apathy in the case of the missing
victims." And part of that story involves the
failure to act by officials, including former
governor Barrio Terrazas, who dismissed the
cries of help for the victims. So, stated the
mothers of the victims, "we talk of negligence
and complicity."
México
DF, 16 enero 09 (CIMAC).- México ratificó como
embajador ante el Gobierno de Canadá al hombre
que afirmó que los asesinatos de mujeres en
Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua --más de 400 hasta
hoy-- era una situación “natural”, en virtud de
que las víctimas caminaban por sitios oscuros y
“se vestían de manera provocativa” con
minifaldas: Francisco Javier Barrio Terrazas,
del Partido Acción Nacional (PAN).
Esta
semana, el Pleno de la Comisión Permanente
aprobó el dictamen por el que se ratificó como
Embajador Extraordinario y Plenipotenciario de
México en Canadá a quien fuera también
Presidente Municipal de Ciudad Juárez y
Gobernador de Chihuahua, en 1983 y 1992,
respectivamente.
Fue
Felipe Calderón quien el 7 de enero de 2009 le
propuso al Senado de la República que Barrio
Terrazas --cuya gestión de gobierno no solucionó
el feminicidio en su entidad, se negó a crear
una Fiscalía especial y recibió una
recomendación de la Comisión Nacional de los
Derechos Humanos (CNDH) por impunidad y
negligencia en las investigaciones de los
asesinatos-- fuera distinguido como embajador de
México en Canadá.
Gladis
Torres Ruiz
CIMAC
Noticias
Jan. 18,
2009
Added Nov.
24, 2006
Mexico
More
than 400 women have been abducted and murdered
since 1993 in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua,
Mexico, bordering El Paso, Texas just over the
Rio Grande. In a significant number of cases,
the brutality with which the assailants abduct
and murder the women goes further than the act
of killing. Many of the women are held captive
for several days and subjected to humiliation,
torture and the most horrific sexual violence
before dying, mostly as a result of asphyxiation
caused by strangulation or from being beaten.
- Amnesty
International
11-23-2006
See also:
Added Nov. 24,
2006
A
slideshow about the femicide in Ciudad Juarez is
available. Organize a display in your
community!
- Amnesty International
Added
Feb. 13,
2006
Mexico
Unresolved Murders of Women Rankle
in Mexican Border City
...For years, the mysterious deaths and
disappearances of [377 girls and] women have
frustrated officials and terrified families in
Juarez, a transient city where 1000s of women
live in shantytowns and work in maquila-doras,
the factories on the U.S. border that produce
electronic circuit boards & auto parts.
About a fourth of the
victims were kidnapped, raped and strangled in a
similar way, leading victims' families to
believe that a sexual serial killer remains on
the loose. The whereabouts of almost 40 other
women who have disappeared since 1993 are still
unknown. And this year, the number of homicides
with female victims has surged to 30, although
authorities attribute 80 percent of them to
domestic or family violence.
More than 100 of the
murder cases remain unsolved because of bungling
by inept or corrupt officials, according to
investigations by the United Nations, Amnesty
Inter-national, the Inter-American Human Rights
Commission and other groups. Mexican federal
officials have conceded negligence due to lack
of resources and investigative or technical
skills.
- Sylvia Moreno
Washington Post
Dec. 16, 2005
Added
Jan. 1,
2006
Ciudad Juarez (Juarez City) - Mario Loya
Aguirre and Jorge Armando Sifuentes Martinez –
both detained on Dec. 25 – and Eleazar Pena
Navarro Three men have been arrested for the
Christmas Eve rape and homicide of a 17-year-old
girl on December 24th, 2005.
According to statements
from 2 of the suspects, the three men were
drinking with Claudia Flores Javier in her home
in the early hours of Dec. 24 when one of them
proposed having sex with her. She refused and
the three then raped her, said Claudia Elena
Banuelos, spokes-woman for the state Attorney
General's office. One of the men responded
to Flores' resistance by hitting her several
times on the head with a blunt object.
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- SignOnSanDiego.com
Dec. 29, 2005 |
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Juarez Protest Photo: CIMAC |
Femicidio en Ciudad Juarez -
Termina el año con
dos asesinatos de mujeres.
Femicide in
Juarez - It has been 13 years since the femicide
murders in Juarez, Mexico began to be reported.
 On December 24, 2005 the body of
17-year-old Claudia Flores Javier appeared in
her apartment with signs of having been raped.
At the same time, 38-year-old
Patricia Rodríguez Hernández was murdered by her
ex-husband. Both victims were shot to
death.
On December 21st, a
female sex worker was also found murdered, with
signs of sexual assault.
During 2005, 36 women were
murdered just in the zone close-in to Juarez
City. These statistics are similar to
those of 2004.
- CIMAC Noticias
News for Women -
Mexico
Dec. 26, 2005
Added
Nov. 13,
2005
Mexican
police have found the body of a woman apparently
beaten to death in Ciudad Juarez, a violent city
on the U.S. border notorious for gender
violence, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
More than 350 women have
been stabbed, strangled and beaten to death in
Ciudad Juarez, which lies south of El Paso,
Texas, in a 12-year killing spree that has
triggered condemnation in Mexico and abroad.
- Reuters
Nov. 8,
2005
Added Sep. 25 2005
Bajo
formal prisión, tres feminicidas de Juárez.
En otro caso, Presunto asesino
de una menor, en centro de rehabilitación .
Three suspects are in pre-trial
detention in the murder cases
of Alma Belén Ortega, and her mother, Alma
Delia Moreno, whose bodies were found on
September
13, 2005
in Juárez.
Also, the alleged murderer of a 15 year
old girl murdered on September 17, 2005 in
Juárez is put behind bars.
CimacNoticias
September 23, 2005
See Also:
Asesinan
a dos mujeres más en Ciudad Juárez.
Juarez Femicide federal
special prosecutor steps down; two more bodies
found.
CimacNoticias
September 14, 2005
Added Sep. 22 2005
Tráfico de
personas: una red de explotación.
Un
análisis del problema de Trata de personas por
la
Senadora María Lucero Saldaña Pérez del
PRI.
Trafficking in Persons: a Network of
Exploitation.
Mexican Senator María Lucero Saldaña
Pérez of the PRI Party describes the nature of
the sex trafficking crisis in México and Central
America, and proposes steps to more effectively
combat organized criminal networks.
Senator María Lucero Saldaña Pérez
on
trafficking:
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"The region lacks prevention efforts; an
infrastructure of protection; the existence of
penalties; and strategies to re-integrate
victims into society.
Criminal networks...
act with almost total impunity, in the absence
of any protections for their victims." |
- www.Criterios.com
September 20, 2005
México
Added Sep. 20 2005
Renunció
Mireille Rocatti a Fiscalía Especial.
CimacNoticias
September 14, 2005
Juarez Femicide Federal Special
Prosecutor Steps Down to Take a State Cabinet
Post.
Mireille Roccatti, who was a
past president of the Mexican National Human
Rights Commission from
1997 to 1999, and who was appointed
in May, 2005 to be the federal special
prosecutor to investigate 12 years of killings
of women in Ciudad Juarez, is leaving her post
for a state cabinet position.
Mothers of victims had become
angered after Roccatti told the group that
Juarez City femicide investigations would not be
federalized.
Also in this article:
- On
September 13, 2005, the bodies of Alma Belén Ortega,
age 21, and her mother, Alma Delia Moreno, age
45 were found in Ciudad Juarez.
(See CimacNoticias
Article from Sep. 14, 2005 regarding these Sep.
13, 2005 murders.)
Associated Press
September 14, 2005
Added Sep. 18 2005
Asesinan
a dos mujeres más en Ciudad Juárez.
CimacNoticias
September 14, 2005
Ciudad
Juarez (Juarez City) - On September 13, 2005,
two more murdered women were found in Juarez,
bring the total during the first 9 months of
2005 to 28.
Esther Chávez, director of the
NGO Casa Amiga, stated:
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"Once more in Juarez, we
are not going down the right path."
"Both women had been
reported missing from a shopping center 5 days
earlier and lamentably, today we have two bodies
matching their descriptions." |
The bodies of Alma Belén Ortega,
age 21, and her mother, Alma Delia Moreno, age
45 were discovered 12 hours apart.
Both of the victims were found
in abandoned housing units. Five suspects were
arrested - by agents of the state investigations
office's Special Prosecutor for Crimes Against
Women, in the housing unit were Alma Belén
Ortega was found.
Chavez:
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"What is certain is that in
Juarez, many special prosecutors offices are
created; many prosecutors come here, but we
haven't arrived at a solution to the problem.
This is all very stressful; each time a new
victim appears, the mothers, and in general the
families who have suffered a loss experience a
setback in the therapy they are receiving to
overcome this trauma."
"Every time we learn
of a new case, the wound opens again. We
ask: What is
happening? When are we going to see an end to
femicide in this region?" |
CimacNoticias
September 14, 2005
Added Sep. 14 2005
Creará PGR Fiscalía Especializada de
Delitos Violentos Contra Mujeres.
Attorney General Daniel Cabeza de Vaca
Announced on September 13, 2005 that He will
Create a New, Permanent Office that will
Specialize in Prosecuting Violent Crimes Against
Women.
The Formation
of the New Unit was Proposed by a Chamber of
Deputies Joint Commission Composed of the
Committee to Track Femicide and the Gender
Equality Committee.
The Special
Unit was Formed at the Conclusion of an Analysis
of 340 Cases Involving 385 Victims of Murder
Targeting Women in Juarez City, Conducted by
Ciudad Juarez 'Femicide' Special
Prosecutor Mireille Rocatti.
A Forensic DNA
Database will be Completed by December, 2005 to
Track Evidence in the Juarez Femicide Cases.
Added
July 27, 2005
July 7,
2005
The Criminal Gang , Which Allegedly
Included a Former Ciudad Juarez Police
Officer, Paid the Victim to Attend Modeling
Classes.
The Victim Was with the Gang
When a Man Emerged from a Luxury SUV and
Paid US $10,000 to Take Her Away.
June 7,
2005
June 2,
2005
May 25,
2005
Mexico - More than 3,000 teachers
marched through the border city of Ciudad Juarez
to demand authorities find an elementary school
teacher who went missing three weeks ago, and
stop a string of killings of young girls.
Added May
23, 2005
Girl Age 10 is Raped, Strangled to
Death and Burned in Ciudad Juarez.
Girl
Age 7 is Murdered Nearby.
Added May
23, 2005
An Independent Review has Found that
Some Suspects in the Killings of Women in Ciudad
Juarez were Tortured into Confessing,
Jeopardizing Continuing Investigations.
"These killers continue to be
a threat to women and the public at large. All
the while, innocent people remain behind bars."
-Guadalupe Morfín, a Federal Commissioner
Appointed by President Vicente Fox to Oversee
Juarez Investigations.
Added May
2, 2005
Added May
2, 2005
Amnesty International:
TAKE ACTION:
Representative Hilda Solis and Senator Jeff
Bingaman have re-introduced Congressional
resolutions on the murders of nearly 400 young
women in Juárez and Chihuahua, Mexico. Urge your
members of congress to support these
resolutions.
Added 04/04/2005
Rocio Marin, 19, is Beaten, Raped
and Stabbed to Death in Juarez.
Added 04/04/2005
British Police to Help in Chihuahua
Added
03/18/ 2005
Juarez, Mexico Femicide: Murders of
Women on the Rise.
Added
03/18/ 2005
U.S. - Mexico Border: One in
10 Women Raped Crossing into US - Figure is
Likely Low.
Added
03/18/ 2005
Juarez, Mexico Teen Girl is Raped
and Murdered.
02/20/ 2005
The United Nations Human Rights
Commission Special Rapporteur on Violence
Against Women, Yakin Ertürk, Will Investigate
Gender Violence in Mexico City, Chihuahua City,
Ciudad Juarez and Puebla, Mexico: February
20-26, 2005.
(Thanks to the Committee of Indigenous Solidarity
(CIS for this News.)
Added 02/19/ 2005
United Nations Human Rights
Commission Special Rapporteur on Violence
Against Women, Yakin Ertürk, Investigated Gender
Violence in Mexico City, Chihuahua City, Ciudad
Juarez and Puebla, Mexico: February 20-26, 2005.
01/31/
2005
Ciudad Juarez (Juarez City) Mexico
Femicide: Critics Pressure Prosecutors.
Added 01/11/2005
 Mexico to Begin Payments to the
Families of Female Murder Victims in Ciudad
Juarez.
01/08/2005
Juarez, Mexico Femicide: Activists
Unhappy with Recent Murder Convictions. | |
 From Amnesty
International:
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| Since 1993, 370 women have been brutally
murdered in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico.
Their families are often ignored or mistreated
as they seek justice for their loved ones.
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US Congresswoman
Hilda Solis, along with five other
Representatives, introduced a congressional
resolution expressing sympathy for the families
of the victims, and calling on the United States
government to take decisive action in support of
those seeking justice. |
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More from Amnesty International:
Stop
Violence Against Women in Ciudad Juárez and
Chihuahua, México
Over 370 women
murdered, at least 137 of them after being
sexually assaulted - this is the harsh reality
of the violence which women and teenage girls of
Chihuahua state have been subjected to since
1993, according to reports received by Amnesty
International. In addition, over 70 young women
are still missing, according to the authorities,
though Mexican non-governmental organizations
say the figure is over 400. Join Amnesty
International in demanding justice for the women
and girls of Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua.
A film on the Ciudad Juarez Femicide
available from Mexico Solidarity Network:
"Señorita Extraviada"
"Señorita Extraviada" cuenta la historia de las
más de 380 jóvenes mujeres secuestradas,
violadas, y matadas de Juárez, México. Se sabían
de los femicidios por primera vez en 1993, y las
mujeres siguen "desapareciendo" hasta hoy en día
sin esperanza alguna de llevar a los autores de
los crimenes a los tribunales. Quiénes son estas
mujeres de distintos caminos de vida y por qué
están siendo brutalmente matadas?
Personal de la Red de Solidaridad con
México que tiene experiencia en Ciudad Juárez
acompaña las presentaciones públicas de esta
película conmovedora y encabeza charlas después
del show. Para más información, contacte a la Red de Solidaridad con
México. El video también está
disponible para el uso personal a $35, mas $5 de
envio. Por favor mandar cheques a la Red de
Solidaridad con México, 4834 N Springfield,
Chicago, IL 60625.
Señorita Extraviada ("Missing Young
Woman") tells the story of the over 380
kidnapped, raped and murdered young women of
Juárez, Mexico. The murders first came to light
in 1993, and young women continue to "disappear"
to this day without any hope of bringing the
perpetrators to justice. Who are these women
from all walks of life and why are they brutally
murdered?
Mexico Solidarity Network staff with
first-hand experience in Ciudad Juarez often
accompany public presentations of this moving
film and lead post-show discussions. For
more information, contact the Mexico Solidarity
Network. The video is also available
for personal use for $35 plus $5 shipping and
handling. Please send checks to the Mexico
Solidarity Network, 4834 N Springfield, Chicago,
IL 60625.
Señorita
Extraviada filmaker Lourdes
Portillo's web site.
| (Added to this list December
18, 2004)
Abstract on this Film from the New
York Times
THE ARTS/CULTURAL
DESK
August 19, 2002, Monday
Who Is Killing the Young Women of
Juárez? A Filmmaker Seeks Answers
By
MIREYA NAVARRO (NYT) 1179 words
LEAD PARAGRAPH - Over the last decade
more than 300 women have disappeared from the
streets of Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, many later
found raped and murdered, their bodies dumped in
ditches and the desert. But even more stunning
than the number of deaths has been the failure
of law enforcement officials to put a stop to
the killings.
A
trail of newspaper articles about the murders
led Lourdes Portillo, a San Francisco filmmaker
who was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, not far from
Juárez, to this unsolved mystery just across the
border from El Paso. Initially, she said, her
intention was to profile some of the victims and
create a memorial to ''these girls,'' but soon
she found herself trying to figure out what
happened to them and why.
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Links:
Justicia Para Nuestras Hijas
(Justice for Our Daughters)
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Paloma
Escobar Ledezma |
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| Desaparició el 22 de marzo
de 2002. |
She disappeared on March 22,
2002. |
| Su cuerpo fue encontrado el 29
del mismo mes en un arroyo seco a las afueras de
la ciudad por unos trabajadores agrícolas.
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Her body was found by
agricultural workers on the 29th of the same
month, in a dry gully outside of town. |
| La procuraduría de justicia
del estado nunca hizo nada por encontrarla,
salvo inventar falsos encuentros con ella,
situándolos en tiempos en que, según la
posterior autopsia, ya había fallecido... |
The [Chihuahua] state
prosecutor never did anything to find her,
except to invent false sightings of her, on
dates when the autopsy showed, after the fact,
that she was already dead. |
| Luego de la localización del
cadáver, se intentó fabricar un culpable, un
exnovio de Paloma. La maniobra fue tan burda,
que se derrumbó sola. |
After finding the body, an
attempt was made to falsify a suspect, an
ex-boyfriend from Paloma. The plot was so
inane that it fell apart by itself. |
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Hasta el momento no se ha detenido ni
presentado a nadie más. El crimen sigue
impune... |
At the present time no other
suspect has been found. This remains a
crime of impunity. |
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- Justicia
Para Nuestras Hijas | |
Más Enlaces / More Links:
Amnesty
International's Juarez Crisis Page
Amnestia
Internacional - Justicia Para las Mujeres y
Niñas de Ciudad Juárez y Chihuahua, México
Bibliography
about the Women of Ciudad Juárez, México - Los Angeles Valley
College Library
(Added
to this list December 14, 2004)
CourtTV's
Externsive 11 Page Report on the Murders in
Ciudad Juarez (by Michael Newton):
Since 1993, upward of 340 young women have
been brutally murdered in the Mexican border
town. More than a dozen suspects have been
jailed, but the killing continues.
Human Rights
Watch Index on the Abuse of Women Workers in
Mexico -
(Many Juarez Victims are Workers Who
Migrated to Juarez to Find Work in Foreign Own
"Maquilla" Cheap Labor Factories.)
www.JuarezWomen.com
Latin America
Working Group's Juarez Page
Save Juarez
Project (Self Defense Direct Action)
Washington
Office on Latin America Juarez Page
News Article Archive:
2004
12/15/2004
Canadian Parliamentary Subcommittee
on Human Rights Addresses the Ongoing Killing of
Women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
12/12/2004
The Stories of 3 Recent Victims;
More Police Officers Investigated.
12/06/2004
Nine News Stories
Detail New Anti-Slavery Task Forces Created for
El-Paso (next to Juarez, Mexico), and San
Antonio, Texas. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas)
Proposes the Death Penalty "for the Most Heinous
Cases."
Mothers Step Up
Campaign as Cover Up Takes Hold 11-24-2004
Mexican Federal
Investigation Finds No Serial Killers_or Gangs
Behind Juarez Femicide 10-25-2004
Bodies_Found in
Chihuahua City and Reynosa Mexcio 10-24-2004
Second_Federal
Investigation Draws Anger 10-14-2004
47 Mothers of
Victims to Get Homes 09-16-2004
Police_Arrest_Suspect in Recent Murder of
Woman 08-10-2004
Authorities
Identify Woman Slain in Ciudad Juarez 07-28-2004
Government Creates
Fund to Compensate Families of Murder Victims
07-20-2004
Activists
Paint_Crosses 04-17-2004
In Juarez
Murders, Progress but Few Answers - 04-09-2004
- CNN
U.N. Condemns Mexico For
Handling Of Juarez Murder Probe - United Nations Foundation
04-01-2004
Letter from Juarez
03-17-2004
Another Death
03-11-2004
Major New York Times Major
Exposé Mexican of Women and Girls trafficked
into US 01-25-2004.
This article discusses the
kidnapping, rape and trafficking into the United
States of poor Mexican girl children to be used
as sex slaves. The article discusses the
testimony of one victim who was transported
repeatedly across the Ciudad Juarez, Mexico to
El Paso, Texas border crossing.
(Added to this list December 14,
2004)
International
Concern Growing 01-14-2004
Special Prosecutor
Named 01-13-2004
2003
Juarez Activists
Ask OAS Intervention 12-30-2003 (Added to this list December 14,
2004)
US Latin Congress
Members Visit 12-11-2003
(Added to this list December 14,
2004)
Lat US Mexico Juarez Suspect
Extradited to Mexico 12-09-2003
Theory on
Killings of Juarez Women - National public Radio
News 12-04-2003
Shoddy Probe
12-02-2003
Mexican Government to Pay Families
11-15-2003
Rich Killers Stalk
Region 11-02-2003
US - Solidarity with Women of Juarez
Event - Washington, DC 11-01-2003
(Added to this
list December 14, 2004)
Amnesty Intl
December 10-2003 Events
Police Probe
Possible Juarez Murders Link to Organ
Traffickers 09-04-2003
Who's Killing
the Women of Juarez? - National Public Radio
- Morning Edition 02-22-2003
2002
U.S. - 2002 "Toxic Silence" An Essay
by Laura Zárate, Founding Executive
Director of ArteSana.com, a Texas
Based Advocacy Group. (Added to this list December 14,
2004)
U.S. - Mexico
Border Region - Crisis of Anti-Female
Mass-Murder in Juarez, Mexico - August 2002
(Added to this list
December 12, 2004)
Women's Groups Protest the
Juarez Murders of Over 300 Women - August 14,
2002
(Added to
this list December 12, 2004)
Death Stalks the
Border - Special Section - El Paso Times
06-23-2002
To Work and Die in Juarez - Mother
Jones Magazine - May/June 2002
Women demand
Mexico murder probe - Eight Women Found Murdered
- BBC News 02-21-2002 | |
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Gangs
Enter New Territory With Sex
Trafficking
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Though most are known to deal with
drugs and weapons, a new FBI threat
assessment says street gangs have
been moving into some different
territory lately: human trafficking.
The FBI says gang members
increasingly are pushing women and
children into prostitution.
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The MS-13 gang got its start among
immigrants from El Salvador in the
1980s. Since then, the gang has
built operations in 42 states,
mostly out West and in the
Northeastern United States, where
members typically deal in drugs and
weapons.
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But in Fairfax County, Virginia, one
of the wealthiest places in the
country, authorities have brought
five cases in the past year that
focus on gang members who have
pushed women, sometimes very young
women, into prostitution.
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"We all know that human trafficking
is an issue around the world," says
Neil MacBride, the top federal
prosecutor in the area. "We hear
about child brothels in Thailand and
brick kilns in India, but it's
something that's in our own
backyard, and in the last year we've
seen street gangs starting to move
into sex trafficking."
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In Virginia, at least, the
consequences can be severe. Over the
past few weeks, one member of MS-13
nicknamed "Sniper" got sent to
prison for the rest of his life.
Another will spend 24 years behind
bars for compelling two teenage
girls to sell themselves for money.
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Usually, investigators say, gang
members charge between $30 and $50 a
visit, and the girls are forced into
prostitution 10 to 15 times a day.
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It's easy money for MS-13 —
thousands of dollars in a weekend,
with virtually no costs. Except for
alcohol and drugs to try to keep the
girls off-kilter.
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Often, the activity takes place at
construction sites, in the parking
lots of convenience stores and gas
stations.
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"Yeah, this last case we worked, the
victim was 12 years old," says John
Torres, who leads the Homeland
Security Investigations unit at the
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
office in Washington.
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He says the girl, a runaway,
approached MS-13 gang members at a
Halloween party. She was looking for
a place to stay. Within hours, she
was forced to work as a prostitute.
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"You have a gang that's taking
advantage of people that are in a
desperate situation, usually
runaways or someone that's looking
for help from the gang," Torres
says.
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Joshua Skule, who oversees the
violent crime branch of the criminal
division at the FBI's field office
in Washington, lists some reasons
for street gangs' move into sex
trafficking.
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"It is not like moving, or as risky
as moving narcotics. It is not as
risky as extorting business owners,"
he says. "And these victims really
have no way out."
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Skule says they're like modern
indentured servants. The 12-year-old
girl involved in one of the recent
sex trafficking cases is safe now,
authorities say. But she'll be
dealing with the physical and
emotional scars for many years.
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"When someone leaves, there's a lot
of shame and guilt associated with
the time they were there," says
Victoria Hougham, a social worker
who helps victims and survivors of
sex trafficking.
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"They may have physical injuries
which can impact, especially for
young women, their sexual and
reproductive health."
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Hougham works with
Polaris
Project,
a nonprofit that runs a 24-hour hot
line that helps connect victims of
human trafficking with police or
social services. She says survivors
of that kind of abuse do best when
they reconnect with their families
and get support from law
enforcement.
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Prosecutors in Virginia say they
expect to bring more sex trafficking
cases against gang members over the
next several months.
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Carrie Johnson
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All Things Considered
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National Public Radio
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Nov. 14, 2011
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Congressional anti trafficking leader Rosi
Orozco eulogizes Interior Department leaders in the war against modern
slavery
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Mexico
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Mexico’s Secretary of the Interior José
Francisco Blake Mora and other officials recently died in a
tragic helicopter accident.
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Congressional deputy Rosi Orozco, president of
the Special Commission to Combat Human Trafficking in the
Chamber of Deputies
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Comunicado
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Con profunda tristeza me uno al dolor que
embarga a las familias de cada uno de los pasajeros que viajaban junto
con el Srio. de Gobernación
José Francisco Blake Mora,
en el trágico
accidente sucedido el día de ayer; Felipe de Jesús Zamora Castro,
subsecretario de Asuntos Jurídicos y Derechos Humanos [y otros]…,
quienes sirviendo a su Nación, perdieron su vida.
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Siempre estaremos agredecidos por el
apoyo del Srio. José Francisco Blake quien en funciones subió el tema
del delito de Trata de Personas al Consejo de Seguridad Nacional
equiparando así este delito con el de secuestro. En todo momento fue un
hombre dispuesto y determinado a luchar por tener un mejor país, una
mejor Nación, un mejor México para nacionales y extranjeros.
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Felipe de Jesús Zamora,
gran aliado en la
lucha contra la Trata de Personas, comprometido con la campaña de la ONU
en contra de este crimen, portando todos los días en la solapa de su
traje el símbolo del Corazón Azul, su pérdida para mí es irreparable.
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Press Release
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It is with deep sadness that I join with the
pain felt by the families of each of the passengers who were traveling
with Mexico’s Secretary of the Interior
José Francisco Blake Mora
during the tragic [helicopter] accident that happened yesterday...,
including Felipe de Jesús Zamora Castro, Secretary of Legal Affairs and
Human Rights at the Interior Department.
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We will always be thankful for the
support of Secretary Blake Mora, who raised the issue of human
trafficking before the National Security Council, where he equated
trafficking with crime of kidnapping [which is penalized much more
severely under Mexican law]. The Secretary was at all times a man
willing and determined to fight for a better country, a better nation, a
better Mexico for nationals and foreigners.
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[Another victim of the crash,
Undersecretary of the Interior for Judicial
Affairs and Human Rights] Felipe de Jesus Zamora was a great ally in the
fight against trafficking in persons. He was committed to [Mexico’s
collaboration with] the United Nations Blue Heart campaign against
trafficking, wearing therir blue heart pin on his lapel each and every
day. His loss is irreparable.
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I join the pain of all Mexicans, who
have lost brave servants of our nation. They defended the values which
make Mexico great through their day-to-day hard work and determination.
I sympathize with their beloved families, peers and colleagues.
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Attentively
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Atentamente
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Diputada Federal Rosi Orozco
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Nov. 11, 2011
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Mexico
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Protest sign says "We need authorities
who will indeed protect us - not rapists."
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La CIDH admite el caso de 11 mujeres mexicanas
que acusan tortura sexual
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La Comisión Interamericana investigará una denuncia de violación de un
grupo mujeres en un operativo policial en San Salvador Atenco en 2006
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Según la documentación de organizaciones civiles, al menos 26 mujeres
fueron violadas, de las cuales, 11 acudieron ante la CIDH (Cuartoscuro
Archivo).
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La Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) admitió investigar
el caso de 11 mujeres mexicanas que aseguran que fueron víctimas de
tortura sexual durante una represión policial en 2006 en San Salvador
Atenco, en el Estado de México.
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Durante el 143° periodo ordinario de sesiones, la CIDH emitió un informe
para comenzar a investigar la petición 512-08 Mariana Selvas Gómez y
otros vs. México, interpuesta en abril de 2008 bajo el cargo de dilación
de justicia por la nula investigación en el caso.
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“Ni la Fiscalía Especial de Delitos Violentos Contra las Mujeres y Trata
de Personas (Fevimtra) ni la Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado
de México (PGJEM) han realizado una adecuada investigación y ningún
policía, de los más de 2,500 agentes que intervinieron, ha sido
sancionado”, acusa el Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro
Juárez (Centro Prodh), que lleva el caso legal de las denunciantes.
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La Comisión investigará ahora si el Estado mexicano cometió violaciones
de derechos humanos y dará a conocer sus conclusiones en cuanto la parte
acusadora y el gobierno mexicano sean notificados sobre las mismas.
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La población de San Salvador de Atenco se movilizó en febrero y mayo de
2006 contra la expropiación de tierras en San Salvador Atenco para la
construcción de un nuevo aeropuerto internacional en el centro del país.
La protesta derivó en un enfrentamiento en el que participaron 2,500
policías de los tres órdenes de gobierno. Dos personas murieron y 207
fueron detenidas.
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Organizaciones civiles como el Centro Prodh denuncian que durante el
operativo del 3 y 4 de mayo de 2006, al menos 26 mujeres fueron víctimas
de tortura sexual; de las cuáles, 11 presentaron una querella ante la
CIDH.
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Estas mujeres denunciaron que los agentes las detuvieron por participar
en los disturbios y que en los vehículos donde eran trasladadas a un
penal sufrieron violencia sexual, física y verbal.
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Una de las denunciantes, Italia Méndez, escribió una carta en el quinto
aniversario del operativo en Atenco: "La tortura sexual ejercida contra
nosotras las mujeres en los operativos fue un hecho difícil de afrontar
y denunciar, dimensionar tal violencia contra nuestros cuerpos nos
resultaba desbordante, sin embargo, el mantenernos juntas y enfrentar al
Estado de forma colectiva nos permitió afrontar y desmontar el discurso
del poder en el cual nosotras debíamos sentir vergüenza y no podíamos
hacer nada con lo ocurrido”.
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En julio de 2010, la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN)
ordenó la liberación de 12 integrantes del Frente de Pueblos en Defensa
de la Tierra (FPDT), que estaban sentenciados a penas de entre 31 y 112
años de cárcel por el delito de secuestro equiparado tras haber
participado en la protesta.
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Un año antes, la Corte dictaminó que los policías que fueron parte del
operativo cometieron graves violaciones a las garantías individuales.
Hasta ahora, sólo uno ha sido consignado por actos libidinosos, pero no
fue encarcelado.
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La SCJN también deslindó responsabilidad al expresidente Vicente Fox y
al exgobernador del Estado de México, Enrique Peña Nieto.
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El exmandatario estatal dijo en 2008 que volvería a ordenar un operativo
similar en caso de que fuera necesario restablecer el orden y la paz
social. Sin embargo, un año después, reconoció que en el caso existe un
“alto grado de impunidad” en cuanto a violaciones y abusos cometidos por
los 2,500 policías que participaron, pero dijo que era “prácticamente
imposible saber quién las cometió”.
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Cinco años después de haber avalado el operativo, Enrique Peña Nieto es
el político mexicano mejor posicionado en las encuestas para los
comicios presidenciales de 2012.
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International Commission will investigate the case of 11 Mexican women
who charge sexual torture [at the hands of police]
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The Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) has decided
to investigate
rape complaints filed by a group of women in regard to a police
operation that occurred in the city of San Salvador de Atenco in 2006.
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According to documentation assembled by nongovernmental organizations,
at least 26 women were raped at the time of the incident. Eleven of those victims have
pursued the case that will be considered by the IACHR.
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During its 143rd regular session, the Commission issued a report to
begin investigating
petition 512-08 - Mariana Selvas Gómez et al.,
Mexico, filed in April 2008 on allegations that justice was not served
because officials failed to investigate the case.
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"Neither the [federal] Special Prosecutor for Violent Crimes Against
Women and Trafficking in Persons (FEVIMTRA) nor the Attorney General of
the State of Mexico (PGJEM) conducted an adequate investigation, and
none of the more than 2,500 police officers involved [in the operation]
has been penalized,” declared a spokesperson for the Miguel Agustín Pro
Juárez Human Rights Center (PRODH Center), which provides legal
representation for the complainants.
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The Commission will now investigate whether the Mexican government
committed human rights violations and will publish its conclusions after
the complainants and the Mexican government are notified about them.
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The population of San Salvador Atenco had mobilized in February, and
then in May of 2006
in protest against the expropriation of land within the city that was to
be used for the construction of a new international airport. The protest
led to a confrontation and a response by more than 2,500 federal, state
and local police officers. Two people died and 207 were arrested.
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Civil society organizations such as the PRODH Center reported that during the
operation, which took place between May 3rd and 4th
of
2006, at least 26 women were subjected to sexual torture. Eleven of those
victims joined to bring the IACHR complaint.
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The women reported that officers had arrested them for participating in
the disturbances, and that they were sexually, physically and verbally
assaulted on the buses that transported them to jail.
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One of the complainants, Italia Méndez, wrote a letter on the fifth
anniversary of the operation in Atenco and stated: "The sexual torture
that was perpetrated against us as women was hard to face and denounce -
such violence [against] our bodies was overwhelming. Nonetheless, by
staying together and by confronting the state collectively, we were able
to dismantle the discourse that was [publicized] by those in power, a
discourse that said that we should feel ashamed and that we could not do
anything about what had happened."
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In July 2010, the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) ordered the release of
12 members of the Peoples' Front in Defense of the Land (FPDT), who had
been sentenced to between 31 and 112 years in prison for the crime of
kidnapping after participating in the protest.
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A year earlier, the Court ruled that the police officers who were part
of the operation committed serious violations of individual rights. So
far, only one officer has been prosecuted for lewd acts. He was not
jailed.
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The supreme court also exonerated [former] president Vicente Fox and the
former governor of Mexico state, Enrique Peña Nieto in regard to the
case.
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Peña Nieto said in 2008 that he would have ordered a similar operation
again in the event that it become necessary to restore order and social
peace. A year later, Peña Nieto acknowledged that there was a "high
degree of impunity" in regard to the violations and abuses committed by the
2,500 police officers involved, but said it was "practically impossible
to know who committed those acts".
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Five years after having [ordered and] supported the operation, Enrique
Peña Nieto holds the top position in polls leading up to the 2012
presidential race.
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Tania L. Montalvo
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CNNMéxico
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Nov. 09, 2011
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See also:
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Added: Nov. 14, 2011
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Mexico
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Raped, Beaten, Never Forgotten
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When the women left their homes that May morning in 2006, they never
imagined the horrific experience that lay ahead of them.
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During a police operation in response to protests by a local peasant
organization in San Salvador Atenco, more than 45 women were arrested
without explanation. Dozens of them were subjected to physical,
psychological and sexual violence by the police officers who arrested
them.
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In the case of one of the women, police officers pulled her hair, beat
her, and forced her into a state police vehicle with her shirt pulled
over her head. She was made to lie on top of other detainees, and during
the journey to the prison, police officers sexually assaulted her
repeatedly.
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Once at the "Santiaguito" prison near Toluca in Mexico State, the prison
doctors who examined many of the women failed to document all their
physical injuries or to gather evidence of the sexual abuse they had
suffered.
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More than four years later, these brave survivors are still waiting for
justice.
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None of the officials responsible for their abuse have been held
accountable. Federal authorities had conducted an investigation that
resulted in a list of 34 names of police officers who were suspected of
being responsible for the abuses, but the federal authorities concluded
that these individuals should be prosecuted at the state level.
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Almost no progress has been made in over a year. Now is the time to push
for real justice and remind the federal government of Mexico that it has
the ultimate responsibility to protect the human rights of its citizens,
and not to let this impunity continue...
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Amnesty International
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2011
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See Also:
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LibertadLatina
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Special Section
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Atenco
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Mexican Police
Rape and Assault
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Women at
Street Protest
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Mexico
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Lydia Cacho
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Detectan 17 casos de trata en la Riviera Maya
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Ante los hechos de explotación sexual se realizará una marcha pacífica
el próximo 12 de noviembre en la zona turística de Cancún
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El Centro Integral de Atención a la Mujer Maltratada (CIAM-Cancún)
documenta los casos de al menos 17 menores de edad, víctimas de una red
de tratantes de personas en la Riviera Maya, quienes vivían
originalmente en situación de calle y fueron captadas por tratantes que
las "engancharon" en el turismo sexual, comerciándolas sexualmente para
el consumo de turistas canadienses, italianos y norteamericanos,
principalmente.
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La organización, que brinda asesoría psicológica, emocional, jurídica y
alberga a mujeres víctimas de violencia, conocieron de los casos como
parte de la campaña "Yo no estoy en venta" que iniciaron en mayo pasado
para prevenir y combatir el delito de la Trata de Personas en sus
diversas modalidades, enfocada a adolescentes y jóvenes a quienes se
dota de herramientas para detectar el fenómeno, reconocer los signos de
alerta y, en su caso, denunciarlos a personas de su confianza.
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Como parte de dicha campaña se realizará una marcha pacífica el próximo
12 de noviembre en la zona turística de Cancún para lanzar como mensaje
al turismo y a la industria de que Cancún es paraíso, pero no para el
turismo sexual y que la niñez en Quintana Roo, no está en venta, anunció
este martes la presidenta del CIAM-Cancún, Lydia Cacho Ribeiro.
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La activista reveló datos
preliminares sobre los casos detectados y el estudio que han conformado
para dibujar el perfil de los tratantes de personas que operan en Cancún
y en Playa del Carmen -municipios de Benito Juárez y Solidaridad- en
donde estas mafias que explotan comercialmente a menores de edad son
protegidas por cárteles de la droga, específicamente por Los Zetas y los
"Pelones".
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Del grupo de 17 víctimas halladas por CIAM, Cacho Ribeiro dijo que sus
edades oscilan entre los 13 y 16 años, que provienen de diferentes
entidades de la República Mexicana y que su común denominador estriba en
que la violencia doméstica que sufrieron en el hogar las hizo huir y
encontrar refugio en las calles…
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"Esta modalidad de víctimas de Trata, que se encuentran en situación de
calle está cobrando importancia en Cancún y Riviera Maya. Hemos sabido
por testimonios de las propias víctimas que mantienen relaciones
sexuales con policías, comerciantes, taxistas y chavos de calle a cambio
de comida, protección, favores o drogas y no exclusivamente por dinero.
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"Luego son captadas por sujetos a los que ubican como ‘valedores' que
primero las protegen, con quienes entablan un vínculo emocional muy
fuerte, y quienes terminan explotándolas sexualmente o entregándolas a
tratantes profesionales", expresó.
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Estos ‘valedores' operan particularmente en la famosa Quintana Avenida,
localizada en Playa del Carmen y en playas aledañas a la zona. Y en
Cancún, en el Parque de las Palapas y en la zona de bares de la avenida
López Portillo.
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La agrupación ha dividido en
tres al tipo de víctimas de Trata, detectados en Quintana Roo, durante
la campaña "Yo no estoy en Venta":
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Infantes y adolescentes que viven con sus familias y son explotadas en
niveles socieconómicos altos, por amigos de la escuela y propietarios de
bares; quienes se reportan como desaparecidos o que huyeron de sus casas
y terminan dentro de una red local o internacional de Trata; y quienes
son traídas al estado por tratantes que manejan las rutas de tráfico de
migrantes indocumentados, principalmente de países como Guatemala, El
Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica y Paraguay.
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Activists detect 17 cases of minor sex trafficking at Mexico’s Riviera
Maya resort
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Given the facts of sexual exploitation, a peaceful march is planned for
November 12th in the resort city of Cancun
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The Comprehensive Care Centre for Abused Women (CIAM-Cancún) has
announced that it has documented the cases of at least 17 underage
victims of sex trafficking networks in the Riviera Maya resort area. The
victims were homeless children who had been entrapped by a network of
traffickers who prostituted them for the consumption of sex tourists who
are principally from Canada, Italy and the United States.
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CIAM, which provides emotional, psychological, legal and housing
assistance for women victims of violence, raised awareness of the 17
victims as part of its "I am not for sale" campaign. The effort began
last May to prevent and combat the crime of human trafficking in its
diverse forms. The campaign is aimed at teenagers and young adults who
will be educated to detect the phenomenon, to recognize the warning
signs and, where appropriate, report them to people they trust.
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CIAM is organizing a peaceful march for November 12th in the resort city
of Cancun to launch its message to the tourism industry that Cancun is
a paradise, but not for sex tourism, and to declare that the children of
the state of Quintana Roo are not for sale, announced CIAM-Cancún’s
president, [journalist and activist] Lydia Cacho Ribeiro.
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Cacho Ribeiro discussed preliminary data in regard to the cases detected
as well as deails about a study that CIAM has developed to determine
the profile of the human traffickers that are operating in Cancun and
Playa del Carmen - where the gangs who engage in the commercial sexual
exploitation of children (CSEC) are protected by the drug cartels, and
specifically Los Zetas and the "Pelones."
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According to Cacho Ribeiro, the ages of the 17 victims found by CIAM are
between 13 and 16. They come from across Mexico. Their common
denominator is that they all suffered domestic violence at home that
drove them onto the streets.
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"This type of victims of trafficking, who may be found to be living on
the streets, is becoming increasingly important in Cancun and Riviera
Maya. We have testimony from the victims who have declared that the have
sex with policemen, shopkeepers, taxi drivers and street kids in
exchange for food, protection, favors or drugs. It is not always an
exchange of money that is involved.
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"Later, they are captured by subjects who pose as benefactors, who
protect them, and with whom they have a strong emotional bond, These
subjects end up exploiting the victim sexually, or they hand
the girl
over to professional traffickers,” said Cacho Ribeiro.
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These 'protectors' are especially active in the famous Avenida Quintana
in Playa del Carmen, and along the beaches surrounding the area. In
Cancun, they operate in the Parque de las Palapas and in the bars along
the Avenida Lopez Portillo.
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CIAM has categorized three types of victims of who have been detected in
Quintana Roo state during the I am not for Sale campaign: 1) children and
adolescents who are living with their families, who are exploited by
school friends and bar owners; 2) youth who are reported as missing or
who fled their homes and end up in a local or international [sex] trafficking
network; and 3) victims who are brought into the state by traffickers
who operate human smuggling routes that transport undocumented migrants
who are principally from the nations of Guatemala, El Salvador,
Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Paraguay.
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Adriana Varillas
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El Universal
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Nov. 08, 2011
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Added: Nov. 06, 2011
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Latin America
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The Rise
of Femicide and Women in Drug
Trafficking
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While men have predominantly run drug
trafficking organizations (DTOs),
women have participated in them since
the 1920s. Their role may have
appeared miniscule compared to that
of their male counterparts, but they
have played key roles such as drug
mules and bosses…
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Indirect
Effects of Drug Trafficking
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Government
crackdowns on drug cartels not only
affect women directly, impacting
those who may be working as bosses
or mules, but also indirectly
through a resulting increase [in]
prostitution and sex trafficking.
These industries present an
alternative when governments place
heightened scrutiny on DTOs.
According to the International
Organization for Migration, sex
trafficking alone can produce USD 16
billion a year in revenue in Latin
America. With such high profits,
they are obvious choices to mobilize
in the midst of increased government
control…
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Femicide
Emerges
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The rise [in] the number of women in
prisons and the surge in their crime
rates are symptoms of a prominent
issue in Latin America, known as
femicide. Femicide refers to the
mass killings of women, and reflects
the excessive masculinity that is
associated with the drug industry…
[Drug crime is just one of many
causes of femicide in the region.]
Drug trafficking seems to heighten
the attitude that women are…
disposable... Although femicide
remains an issue for all of Latin
America, it has a greater presence
in parts of Central America. For
example, the [number] of murdered
women has tripled in four years,
from 2005-2009, in many Mexican
states from 3.7 to 11.1 per 100,000…
María
Virginia Díaz Méndez, of the Center
of Women’s Studies in Honduras,
states that, “Honduras comes in
second to Guatemala for the highest
femicide rate”. Despite growing
[rates of] femicide throughout the
region, it appears as though there
are little to no consequences for
committing such crimes…
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Andrea Mares
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Council on Hemispheric Affairs
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October 28, 2011
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See also:
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Added: Nov. 06, 2011
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Latin America
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Sex
Trafficking Now A $16 Billion
Business In Latin America
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The trafficking of women and girls
for purposes of sexual exploitation
has become a $16-billion-a-year
business in Latin America, according
to figures from the International
Organization for Migration.
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That amount "is almost half of what
is calculated is generated
worldwide" by sex trafficking, said
IOM's director for the Southern
Cone, Eugenio Ambrosi, in an
interview published Wednesday in the
Buenos Aires daily Pagina/12.
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Prostitution, he said, "is vying for
second place with weapons
trafficking as the illegal business
that moves the most money after drug
trafficking."
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Ambrosi lamented the fact that
trafficking in women has "the
advantage ... (that) the logistical
and investment (costs) are much
lower" than in other illicit
businesses, and he added that
"there's a connection" between drug
trafficking and people trafficking.
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"Sometimes the victims ... are
recruited to traffic drugs," he
said.
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"There's a very well organized
network, with the capacity to
recruit and use women everywhere to
satisfy the requirements of the
market," said Ambrosi, adding that
"something has to be done to go
after the customers…"
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WUNRN
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Dec. 02, 2008
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Added: Nov. 06, 2011
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Remarks by Mexican anti-trafficking
leader Teresa Ulloa during her
acceptance of the 2011 Gleitsman
International Activist Award at the
Center for Public Leadership at
the Harvard Kennedy School
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Mexico / Massachusetts, USA
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Programme from
the 2011 Gleitsman
International Activist Award
ceremony
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Palabras
De Teresa Ulloa al aceptar El Premio
Gleitsman 2011 al Activismo Social
Internacional
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Buenas noches, quiero agradecer a
los miembros del Jurado y al Centro
para el Liderazgo Público de la
Escuela Kennedy de la Universidad de
Harvard por otorgarme el Premio
Gleitsman 2011 al Activismo Social
Internacional. También quiero
agradecer a cada una de las que me
nominaron, Corey, Norma, Dorchen y
Jan, todas ellas compañeras en
nuestra lucha y en la
CATW-Internacional, por confiar en
mí y por todo el trabajo que esta
nominación les representó.
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Soy madre de una joven de 21 años,
que ha sido mi motivación y mayor
impulse para que haya dedicado mi
trabajo a contribuir a poner fin a
todas las formas de violencia contra
las mujeres, incluyendo la
sobre-sexualización y la explotación
sexual comercial de mujeres y niñas.
Yo sueño con que mi trabajo
contribuya para desarraigar la
normalización y la aceptación
cultural de la violencia contra las
mujeres para crear un mejor mundo
para todas ellas en todo el mundo.
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He dedicado mi vida a luchar por los
derechos humanos, especialmente a
luchar contra la violencia hacia las
mujeres y las niñas, y, desde hace
veinte años, a combatir la trata de
mujeres, niñas y niños para la
explotación sexual. Durante 40 años,
he trabajado para empoderar y
defender a las mujeres para que
logren el acceso a sus derechos y he
representado a innumerables víctimas
de violencia sexual.
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A menudo, he trabajado con un alto
riesgo personal y el de mi familia,
para erradicar la trata a lo largo
de América Latina y el Caribe,
especialmente en México, donde los
cárteles de las drogas ahora son los
actores principales de este delito.
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En mi trabajo, he incluído un
enfoque holístico para crear las
condiciones legales, políticas y
sociales que permitan erradicar la
trata de personas. Uso mi
conocimiento y experiencia para
diseñar y poner en práctica campañas
y modelos de capacitación
innovadores para la prevención, la
protección y asistencia de las
víctimas, y para la persecución de
los tratantes y explotadores, para
capacitar a los agentes
institucionales encargados de hacer
respetar las leyes y para educar a
los jóvenes, entre otros.
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Inspirada por nuestras Compañeras de
CATW-AP, diseñé un modelo dirigido a
hombres jóvenes para reducir la
demanda de sexo de paga. Este modelo
es el primero en su tipo para educar
a hombres jóvenes y niños sobre la
construcción de la masculinidad
tradicional y las consecuencias de
la demanda en el sexo de paga, que
además promueve una concepción
alternativa de la sexualidad
masculina basada en la igualdad de
derechos humanos. Este modelo se ha
aplicado en México, Argentina,
Ecuador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Perú,
Panamá, Chile, Colombia y la
República Dominicana.
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Hoy, contamos con una red de cerca
de 400 organizaciones en 25 países
en la Región de Latinoamérica y el
Caribe, donde el avance del crimen
organizado y la trata de personas es
alarmante y la corrupción de las
instituciones gubernamentales y los
responsables de hacer respetar la
Ley es una constante. Cientos de
mujeres, niñas y niños se reportan
como desaparecidos y vivimos
continuamente con miedo. A través de
nuestro trabajo hemos rescatado más
de 899 mujeres, niñas y niños de la
trata interna e internacional con
propósitos de explotación sexual, a
través del Sistema Alerta Roja que
fundamos y operamos hace cinco años.
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Sin embargo, todavia enfrentamos
muchos retos inmensos, que pueden
resumirse en:
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La guerra y toda la violencia que
ella involucra contra las mujeres y
las niñas, en las actividades
militares y paramilitares:
violación, violencia sexual,
desplazamiento, muerte, hambre, el
abuso de poder al humillar a las
madres, esposas, hijas y hermanas de
los derrotados, los abusos sexuales
y la prostitución que promueven e
imponen los grupos armados, tanto
los regulares como los irregulares.
Queremos la paz sobre los intereses
económicos y políticos. Queremos el
imperio de la ley y de los derechos
humanos.
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La discriminación de género, esa
discriminación que mata a miles de
niñas aún antes de que hayan nacido,
o aún cuando ya nacieron son
condenadas a la falta de
oportunidades, a la violencia de
género, a la explotación, a la mala
nutrición, a la marginación, a la
desigualdad, y a prácticas
tradicionales perjudiciales para sus
cuerpos y a su dignidad humana, como
el pago de las novias.
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La pobreza y la extrema pobreza. La
feminización de la pobreza se ha
convertido en testigo de la
injusticia para un poco más de la
mitad de la población mundial.
Urgimos su abolición.
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La violencia de género, esa
violencia que se ejerce contra las
mujeres y las niñas en los ámbitos
públicos y privados, en todas
partes. Las muejres y las niñas son
violadas cada día en sus hogares,
donde deberían tener garantizados
sus derechos a la vida, la su
integridad personal y a su
seguridad. Las mujeres y las niñas
son asesinadas cada día en medio de
la más absoluta impunidad. La
seguridad colectiva nunca será
posible si no se puede garantizar la
seguridad y la integridad de las
mujeres y las niñas.
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Tenemos el derecho de ser una
prioridad en la agenda internacional
de cooperación, en los esfuerzos
para el desarrollo, y en la lucha
contra la pobreza, en los desastres
naturals, en la educación, en la
salud, en la protección de nuestros
derechos humanos, pero también en
los temas de seguridad nacional, en
la guerra y en la paz, en los
esfuerzos contra el terrorismo, y en
la lucha contra el crimen
organizado...
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Teresa
Ulloa speaks at the 2011 Gleitsman
Award for International Social
Activism
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Good evening. I want to thank the
members of the jury and the Center
for Public Leadership at the Kennedy
School at Harvard University for
having awarded me the 2011 Gleitsman
Award for International Social
Activism. I also want to thank those
who nominated me, [Coalition Against
Trafficking (CATW) in Women
Executive Director] Norma [Ramos],
Corey, Dorchen and Jan, as well as
all of the sisters who are all
partners in our struggle at the
International CATW, for trusting me
and for all the work that this
nomination represents for them.
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I am the mother of a 21-year-old
young woman, who has been the
greatest motivation causing me to
dedicate my work to helping to put
an end to all forms of violence
against women, including the
over-sexualization and commercial
sexual exploitation of women and
girls. I dream that my work
contributes to uprooting the
standardization and cultural
acceptance of violence against
women, resulting in a better world
for all women across the world.
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I have dedicated my life to fighting
for human rights, especially to
combat violence against women and
girls, and, for twenty y ears, to
combating the trafficking of women
and children for sexual
exploitation. For 40 years I have
worked to empower and advocate for
women to allow them access to their
rights. I have represented
innumerable victims of sexual
violence.
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Often, I have worked at high
personal risk to myself and my
family to eradicate trafficking
throughout Latin America and the
Caribbean, and especially in Mexico,
where drug cartels are now the main
actors in this crime.
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I have included a holistic approach
in my work to create the legal,
political and social conditions that
will allow for the eradication of
human trafficking. Use my knowledge
and experience to design and
implement campaigns and innovative
training models for prevention,
protection and assistance for
victims, for the prosecution of
traffickers and exploiters, to train
the institutional actors responsible
for enforcing the laws and to
educate young people, among other
[activities].
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Inspired by our sisters at the CATW,
I designed a model aimed at young
men to reduce the demand for paid
sex. This model is the first of its
kind to educate young men and boys
[that addresses] the construction of
traditional masculinity and the
impact of demand on paid sex. [The
approach] promotes an alternative
conception of male sexuality based
on and equality of [gender related]
human rights. This model has been
applied in Mexico, Argentina,
Ecuador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Peru,
Panama, Chile, Colombia and the
Dominican Republic.
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Today, we have a network of nearly
400 organizations working in 25
countries in the Latin America and
the Caribbean, where the growth of
organized crime and human
trafficking is alarming and where
the corruption of government
institutions and those responsible
for enforcing Law is a constant
factor. Hundreds of women and
children are reported as missing and
we live in state of continuously
fear. Through the Red Alert system
that started
five
years ago, we have rescued more than
899 women and children victims of
domestic and international
trafficking for purposes of sexual
exploitation.
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Nonetheless, we still face many
enormous challenges, when can be
summariezed as follows:
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* Wars and all of the violence that
they create against women and girls,
in activities of military and
paramilitary groups: rape, sexual
violence, displacement, death,
hunger, abuse of power used to
humiliate the mothers, wives,
daughters and sisters of the
defeated, and the sexual abuse and
prostitution that is imposed by both
regular and irregular armed groups.
We want peace to prevail over
economic and political interests. We
want the rule of law and human
rights.
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* Gender discrimination, which kills
thousands of girls even before they
are born, or that which, after they
are born condemns them to a lack of
opportunities, gender violence,
exploitation, poor nutrition,
marginalization, inequality, and
traditional practices that are
harmful to their bodies and to their
human dignity, such as payments for
brides.
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* Poverty and extreme poverty. The
feminization of poverty has borne
witness to the injustices faced by a
little over half the world’s
population. We urge its abolition.
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* Gender-based violence - violence
perpetrated against women and girls
in public and private spaces,
everywhere. Women and girls are
raped ev ery day in their own homes,
where they should be guaranteed
their rights to life, personal
integrity and security. Women and
girls are murdered every day in an
environment of the most absolute
impunity. Collective security will
never be possible if we can not
guarantee the security and integrity
of women and girls.
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We have the right to be a priority
on the international agenda for
cooperation, in development efforts,
and in the fight against poverty, in
[relief efforts in regard to]
natural disasters, in education, in
healthcare, in the protection of our
human rights, as well as in regard
to national security issues, in war
and peace, in the efforts against
terrorism and in combating organized
crime...
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Teresa Ulloa at Harvard University
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Posted by Fundacion CEDAI-Centro de
Asistencia Integral
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Nov. 01, 2011
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Pop star Ricky Martin calls for the
end of child trafficking
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El Mundo / The World
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Ricky Martin |
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Opinión:
Detengan el flagelo de la trata
infantil, pide Ricky Martin
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Mi compromiso con la causa de
detener la explotación infantil
nació por una experiencia que me
hizo poner los pies en la tierra. En
2002, fui testigo de los horrores de
la trata de personas cuando
rescatamos a tres niñas temblorosas
que vivían en las calles pobres de
India. Prevenir que estas niñas
fueran víctimas de este horrendo
crimen fue un despertar personal.
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Agradezco a la iniciativa Héroes de
CNN por permitir que Ricky Martin
Foundation comparta con otras
personas y las involucre en nuestro
compromiso por terminar con la
explotación de los niños por medio
de la trata de personas y la
esclavitud en el mundo moderno.
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Eso fue hace más de una década.
Desde entonces, supe que mi
fundación debería arrojar una luz
sobre este tema tabú. La educación
ha sido nuestro pilar desde el
principio. En 2003, lanzamos People
for Children, nuestro proyecto
principal, para proporcionar
educación y soluciones a los
esfuerzos internacionales para
eliminar la trata infantil.
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Este mercado sin escrúpulos —que
consiste en 27 millones de víctimas
en todo el mundo, de acuerdo con el
Informe de la Trata de Personas de
2011— genera hasta 32,000 millones
de dólares al año, una cantidad que
rivaliza con el tráfico de armas y
el narcotráfico. De estos 27
millones, la Unicef estima que cada
año 1.2 millones son niños que son
víctimas de la trata de personas
para trabajar como de mano de obra
forzada, en la industria del
comercio sexual, en la prostitución
y en otras formas de esclavitud.
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Las estadísticas son impactantes.
Muchos las cuestionan porque los
crímenes se ocultan. Pero las cifras
no importan: prevenir la trata de
uno o de 200 niños le da validez a
nuestra misión.
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Nadie debe ser explotado o privado
de su libertad...
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Stop
the scourge of child trafficking
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My commitment to the cause of
stopping the exploitation of
children was born from a humbling
experience. In 2002, I witnessed the
horrors of human trafficking as we
rescued three trembling girls living
on the impoverished streets of
India. Preventing these girls from
falling prey to this horrendous
crime was a personal awakening.
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I thank CNN's Heroes initiative for
allowing the Ricky Martin Foundation
to share and engage others in our
commitment to end the exploitation
of children by human trafficking and
modern-day slavery.
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That was more than a decade ago.
Since then, I knew my foundation
must shed a light on this taboo
subject. Education has been our
pillar from the outset. In 2004, we
launched People for Children, our
principal project, to provide
education and solutions for
international efforts to eliminate
child trafficking.
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This unscrupulous market -- which
consists of 27 million victims
worldwide, according to the 2011
Trafficking in Persons Report --
generates up to $32 billion
annually, an amount rivaling that of
the trafficking of arms and drugs.
Of the 27 million, UNICEF estimates
that 1.2 million are children who
are trafficked every year to work as
forced labor, in the commercial sex
industry, in prostitution and in
other forms of slavery.
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The statistics are staggering. Many
contest them because the crimes are
hidden. But numbers don't matter:
Preventing one or 200 children from
traffickers validates our mission.
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No one should be exploited and
deprived of his or her freedom...
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Ricky Martin
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Special to CNN
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Nov. 03, 2011
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Bolivia
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Bolivian Legislative
Deputy
Marianela Paco
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Proponen penas duras por trata de
niños
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El proyecto de Ley contra la Trata y
Tráfico de Personas planteará la
pena máxima (30 años de prisión)
para castigar la trata de niños,
niñas y adolescentes, informó la
diputada Marianela Paco (MAS).
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“Hay
que establecer sanciones más duras
contra el delito de la trata de
niños, niñas y adolescentes con la
pena máxima, es decir, 30 años de
prisión”, afirmó.
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El
proyecto integral, que es analizado
en la Comisión de Derechos Humanos
de la Asamblea Legislativa, señala
que el delito de trata “será
sancionado con 15 a 20 años de
prisión para el o la persona que por
cualquier medio (engaño, coacción,
amenaza o uso de la fuerza)
favorezca la trata de personas
dentro o fuera del país”.
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El
documento define el delito de trata
de personas como la “captación,
transporte, traslado, acogida o
rapto de una persona con fines de
explotación laboral, sexual o la
extracción de órganos”. En tanto, el
tráfico de personas será penado con
una privación de libertad de cuatro
a ocho años.
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Paco dijo que se espera que el
proyecto de ley sea tratado por la
Asamblea Legislativa hasta la
conclusión del periodo de sesiones
de esta gestión, para que el 2012 se
cuente con un instrumento legal que
establezca sanciones y penalidades
de privación de libertad para
quienes incurran en este tipo de
delitos.
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Legislators propose harsh penalties
for child trafficking
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According to Deputy Marianela Paco,
a legislator of the MAS party in
Bloivia’s Legislative Assembly, a
measure currently under
consideration - the Law against
Trafficking in Persons - will raise
the maximum penalty for trafficking
in children and adolescents to 30
years in prison.
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Deputy Paco, "We need to establish
stronger sanctions against the crime
of trafficking in children and
adolescents with the maximum
penalty, that is, 30 years in
prison."
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The bill, which is being discussed
by the Human Rights Commission of
the Legislative Assembly, calls for
the crime of trafficking "be
sentenced by from 15 to 20 years in
prison for a person who by any means
(deception, coercion, threat or use
of force) traffics in people either
inside or outside of Bolivia."
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The proposed law also defines the
crime of human trafficking as the
"recruitment, transportation,
transfer, harboring or kidnapping of
a person for labor or sexual
exploitation, of for the removal of
organs…"
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Deputy Paco said that she hopes the
bill will be addressed by the
Legislature during the current
session, so , that in 2012 we will
have an instrument that establishes
legal sanctions and penalties of
imprisonment for those who engage in
this type of crime.
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Rolando Flores - La Paz
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FMBolivia
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Nov. 05, 2011
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Mexico
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Mexican Attorney General
Marisela Morales Ibáñez
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PGR
designa nuevo responsable de la
SIEDO
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Mexico, D.F.- La titular de la
Procuraduría General de la República
(PGR), Marisela Morales Ibáñez,
designó a José Cuitláhuac Martínez
como subprocurador de Investigación
Especializada en Delincuencia
Organizada (SIEDO).
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Apenas en mayo pasado se había
designado a Patricia Bugarin como
titular de la SIEDO.
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…Angélica Herrera Rivero en la
Fiscalía Especial para los Delitos
de Violencia Contra las Mujeres y
Trata de Personas (Fevimtra).
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Los servidores públicos tienen la
encomienda de respaldar el trabajo
del gobierno de la República para
garantizar a la sociedad una
procuración de justicia sólida y
procedimientos penales efectivos y
expeditos…
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La nueva titular de Fevimtra,
Angélica Herrera, ocupaba la
titularidad de la Unidad
Especializada en Investigación de
Tráfico de Menores, Indocumentados y
Órganos.
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En su trayectoria profesional se ha
desempeñado en la Fiscalía
Especializada para la Atención de
Delitos Electorales y en la SIEDO.
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Attorney General names new
leadership to organized crime and
gender violence / human trafficking
units
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Mexico City - Mexican Attorney
General Marisela Morales Ibáñez has
named José Cuitláhuac Martinez
Assistant Attorney General for
Specialized Investigations into
Organized Crime (SIEDO). Cuitláhuac
Martinez replaces Patricia Bugarin,
who had been been appointed to the
post in May of 2011.
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…Angelica Herrera Rivero was named
to take over the office of the
Special Prosecutor for Crimes of
Violence Against Women and
Trafficking in Persons (FEVIMTRA).
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Public servants have the task of
supporting the work of the
government of the Republic to ensure
that society is provided with strong
law enforcement and effective and
expeditious criminal procedures …
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The new head of FEVIMTRA, Angelica
Herrera, previously served as the
head of the Special Unit for
Investigations into Child
Trafficking, [crimes against the]
Undocumented and Organ trafficking.
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Herrera had also worked in the past
ain the office of the Special
Prosecutor for Electoral Crimes, and
within SIEDO.
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Miguel Cabildo
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Proceso
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Mexico
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Nov. 01, 2011
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Mexico, The United States
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U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Anthony Wayne (right) hosts
anti trafficking NGO
roundtable in Mexico City
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EU
otorga a México 1.5 mdd para
combatir trata
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U.S. Government provides $1.5
million for Mexican anti-trafficking
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