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Femicide in
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
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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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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
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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." |
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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:
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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.
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