Human Rights in Mexico have been an issue for years. The problems include torture, police repression,[1] sexual murder, and, more recently, news reporter assassinations.[2]
[edit] Sexual murder in Ciudad Juárez
Since 1992, hundreds of women of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, have been sexually murdered. The death toll of serially related murders in Juárez is climbing past 400, and many women are simply missing according to local news articles.[3] The city of Juárez homicide-disappearance rate for women is 38 times higher than all of the homicides in common North American statistics.[4]
Women and young girls from every occupation and age, especially girls on their way to school waiting for their bus in the morning and women working the second shift walking home before dawn from their factories' bus stops are quite vulnerable[5] The most seriously threatened group is primarily 12 to 21 years of age due to a breakdown of the family according to Chihuahua Institute of the Woman.[6]
[edit] 2010 UBISORT ambush at San Juan Copala
On 26 April 2010 several human rights activists on their way to San Juan Copala, subject to a paramilitary blockade since January were ambushed by Ubisort-militia. Two were killed, and twelve are missing.[7]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Represión policial y paramilitar en Oaxaca; tres muertos y 23 heridos
- ^ Roig-Franzia, Manuel (14 July 2007). "Americans Covering Mexico Drug Trade Face Assassination Threat". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/13/AR2007071301774.html.
- ^ "Alza la voz por crimenes en Juárez", El Diario, July 20, 2000
- ^ "Homicides of Women: Periodical Audit", Chihuahua Institute of the Woman
- ^ Vicky Caraveo, Director, Chihuahua Institute of the Woman
- ^ Instituto Chihuahuense de la Mujer
- ^ Rights activists killed in Mexico, Andrew Wander, 28th of April 2010, Al Jazeera, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/04/201042812413686521.html (English)
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