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The victims were young: 65 percent of them between 15 and 24 and most of them under age 19. Most were students or workers in small commercial businesses or in "maquiladoras," foreign-owned assembly plants. Most of them were poor and lived in the marginal sections of the city. Many were not from Ciudad Juarez, but went there from other Mexican states or other countries in search of work.

Naturalmente, oltre alle morti, le sparizioni:

(al 2001) thousands of women are "desaparecidas," or missing, Perez said in an interview. The state of Chihuahua counts about 400 "desaparecidas," while the state of Chiapas has about 300 and Guerrero, 150.

Sulla questione legale

The laws also fail to protect women, according to Perez. Only 9 out of 32 states have specific laws protecting children and women against domestic violence, and only 11 states have changed their 17th-century civil and penal codes to make domestic violence a crime. In the remaining states, beating wives or children is not considered a crime.

And, in a worrisome trend, legislators in some states are trying to rescind laws that were passed to protect women.

Campagne

Nel 2001 campagna "Stop the Impunity: No More Killings!", in particolare per gli asssassinii che avvengono al confine.

questo e' un buona articolo (ed e' su "casa amiga")

http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/763/context/archive

(The campaign arose after the bodies of eight more women were found last month in a farming field in Cuidad Juarez in the state of Chihuahua. The women, all of them very young, were raped and strangled before being dumped in a field, their hands tied behind their backs.)

Link

http://www.agenciapulsar.org/nota.php?id=7168

http://www.ojala.nl/new/spaans/temas/vrouwen.htm

http://www.cerigua.org/portal/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2378&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

http://www.zmag.org/Italy/CIEPAC_PPP.htm

Bibliografia

Gloria Anzaldua, Borderland

Sergio Gonzàlez Rodriguez, Ossa nel deserto, 2002, Adelphi