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More than 500 women were killed between 1993 and 2011 in Ciudad Juárez, a city in northern Mexico. [1] [2] The murders of women and girls received international attention primarily due to perceived government inaction in preventing the violence and bringing perpetrators to justice. [3]
Violence surges in the Mexican border city of Juárez amid a war between La Linea and La Empresa crime organizations.
Father Francis: a priest of Our Lady of Guadeloupe Church, he is the head of Contra el Silencio a nonprofit organized to speak up against the violence against women, he also leads rasteros walks around Juarez to look for missing bodies. Lydia Villa: Ivon and Irene's mother, a deeply religious Catholic women. She resents Ivon for being lesbian ...
Mexico is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children subjected to sex trafficking. Groups considered most vulnerable to human trafficking in Mexico include women, children, indigenous persons, persons with mental and physical disabilities, migrants, and LGBTI individuals.
An armored vehicle of the Chihuahua state police makes its way down a street in Juárez, Mexico, in 2023. This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: Juárez gang accused of removing hearts ...
Abdul Latif Sharif, first name also spelled Abdel (September 19, 1947 – June 2, 2006), was an Egyptian-born Mexican chemist and chief suspect in the Juárez killings, a decade-long murder spree that began in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez in the early 1990s.
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The United Nations (UN) has rated Mexico as one of the most violent countries for women in the world. [1] [2] According to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography in Mexico (INEGI), 66.1 percent of all women ages 15 and older have experienced some kind of violence in their lives. [3]