ψ The Dead Women of Juárez
Result:
There is considerable evidence that a specific kind of violence against women is worldwide. Recent discussion of the widening of that perception has met with resistance. Widespread violence doesn't change the fact that extreme violence is happening specifically in Juarez.
Stop Gender-based Violence!
INTERPOL:
"The trafficking of women for sexual exploitation is an international, organized, criminal phenomenon that has grave consequences for the safety, welfare and human rights of its victims.
Trafficking in women is a criminal phenomenon that violates basic human rights, and totally destroying victims' lives.
Countries are affected in various ways. Some see their young women being lured to leave their home country and ending up in the sex industry abroad.
Other countries act mainly as transit countries, while several other receive foreign women who become victims of sexual exploitation.
It is a global problem in which Interpol actively seeks to increase and improve international law enforcement co-operation in order to help combat this crime."
INTERPOL
http://www.interpol.int/Public/THB/Women/Default.asp
The Power of Change Is in Our Hands
"Every day, women and girls around the world are threatened, beaten, raped, mutilated and killed with impunity. It's time to recognize that violence against women is a global human rights scandal that affects us all. Across the world, Amnesty International members will unite to work towards making women's human rights a reality."
http://www.amnestyusa.org/stopviolence/index.do
credit: iansa.org
Mexico:
"The Special Prosecutor's Office, which comes under the Attorney-General's Office, reported that the largest number of killings of women in Mexico occurred in Toluca, near the capital. According to statistics on the number of homicides per 100,000 population, the next in rank is Tecate, in the northern state of Baja California, followed by the resort city of Acapulco on the Pacific coast. Ciudad Juarez ranks fourth."
http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/127947/1/91
╬ The Dead Women of Juárez
╬ The Dead Women of Acapulco
╬ The Dead Women of Tecate
╬ The Dead Women of Toluca
"Even more alarming, victims' advocates say, is that the unchecked killings of women plagues at least a half dozen other cities across Mexico, including Cancun, Nuevo Laredo, Tapachula and Toluca, according to Alicia Perez Duarte, the federal government's new special prosecutor for crimes against women." http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3839399.html For an Amnesty.org article on violence against women all over Mexico, click: http://www.web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR410091996?open&of=ENG-376
For the purpose of Project 14, the focus shall be about:
+"The Dead Women of Juárez..."It can be shown that "The Dead Women..." is worldwide. A case in point is Guatemala. Global: ╬ The Dead Women of Guatemala http://vivirlatino.com/2006/06/14/guatemala-another-juarez-mexico.php Global:
Guatemala: Another Juarez, Mexico?
"Over the last five years at least 2,000 mujeres have been murdered in Guatemala. The majority of these women have been poor young women found with body parts missing including their breasts. So is Guatemala becoming another Ciudad Juarez, Mexico?"
"Femicide is also a problem elsewhere in Latin America. Earlier this year, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Mexico and Guatemala sent a delegation of activists to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington to focus attention on femicide.
In addition to the deaths in Guatemala, incomplete murder rates presented to the Commission cite 373 known murders of women in Bolivia from 2003 to 2004, and143 in Peru during 2003. In Colombia, a woman is reportedly killed every six days by her partner or ex-partner.
Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua City, Mexico, two cities where the femicide trend was first widely noticed, have suffered the murders of more than 500 women from multiple causes since 1993, according to press and other sources. Dozens more remain missing.
Globally, the problem is no less severe. In many parts of South Asia and the Middle East, for example, so-called "honour killings" usually go unpunished."
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33022
Global:
See also:
IRC Americas Program Report
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3142
Stop Gender-based Violence!
INTERPOL:
"Interpol derives its actions from such conventions as the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and the additional Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons.
They give guidelines for law enforcement action and the following are some examples of those actions:
The protocol urges an increase in the information exchange between states in order to determine
- whether individuals crossing or attempting to cross an international border with travel documents belonging to other persons or without travel documents are perpetrators or victims of trafficking in persons,
- the types of travel document that individuals have used or attempted to use to cross an international border for the purpose of trafficking in persons, and
- the means and methods used by organized criminal groups for the purpose of trafficking in persons, including the recruitment and transportation of victims, routes and links between and among individuals and groups engaged in such trafficking, and possible means for detecting them."
- http://www.interpol.int/Public/THB/Women/Default.asp
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Because the violence is worldwide doesn't mean there shouldn't be a focus on Juárez. Bringing the issue back to Juárez a specific example of the violence and the effect of violence (on the mother) can be described.
The Dead Women of JuárezA Case In Point: Paula Flores:
Credit: http://www.hearingvoices.com
"Paula Flores attends the burial of her daughter Sagrario Gonzalez, a maquiladora worker abducted and killed in April 1998." http://www.hearingvoices.com/special/2006/border/
"Paula Flores, who lives in the shanty town of Lomas de Poleo where several s have been killed, doesn't agree.
Her daughter Sagrario, 17, was ed on April 16, 1998, heading home from work at a factory. Her stabbed and strangled corpse was found in the desert 14 days later.
In September 1998, Flores' hopes were raised when she received a letter saying DNA evidence indicated the body was not her daughter's. Investigators said they had exhumed the body to re-check the DNA, but when the family went to Sagrario's grave, it was intact. The wrong body had been taken.
Then in 2000, a document arrived saying the DNA was indeed a match. Now Flores doesn't know what to think.
"It may well be her but, as a mother, I had the hope she was alive when the studies came back negative," she said in a whisper, her eyes full of tears."
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/12/02/rights.mexico.murders.reut/
Commonalities:
1.) "The serial victims bore similar traits. They were young and slender and had brown complexions and long hair."
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ borderdeath/
2.) "The women’s slayings have occurred against a backdrop of violence in Juárez that also took the lives of 1,600 men."
http://www.elpasotimes.com/borderdeath/
The labyrinth of silence
"Associated with the idea of system is a principle called emergence. From the mutual interaction of the parts of a system there arise characteristics which can not be found as characteristic of any of the individual parts." http://www.systems-thinking.org/systems/systems.htm
ψ Proyecto 14 Colectivo
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St. Michael defend us in battle. Amen
"St. Michael also guards the body of Eve, according to the "Revelation of Moses."
("Apocryphal Gospels", etc., ed. A. Walker, Edinburgh, p. 647). http://www.newadvent.org
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Credit: wola.org Full Story:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,910387,00.html
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