by Brian Erickson
on April 29, 2010
“How many years has this been going on? Why didn't they change the
way they investigate everything?” These are the questions that
linger on the mind of Irma Monreal after nearly nine years of
struggling to find a semblance of justice after her daughter, Esmeralda,
was raped, tortured and murdered in Ciudad Juárez in 2001.
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by Jennifer Johnson and Vanessa Kritzer
on April 01, 2010
Working to protect human rights in the heavily militarized mountain region of Guerrero, Mexico is never easy; and threats and harassment are not new for the Mexican human rights defenders who work for the Organization of the Me’phaa Indigenous People (OPIM) and the Tlachinollan Mountain Center for Human Rights. But we have been alarmed to see a rise in threats against them because of their outspoken advocacy, including their accompaniment of two indigenous women, Inés Fernández Ortega y Valentina Rosendo Cantú, who were raped and tortured by soldiers in 2002.
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by Brian Erickson & Jennifer Johnson
on April 15, 2010
Earlier this week, Arizona state legislators voted in favor of legislation that – if signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer - would institutionalize discriminatory and dangerous policies by effectively pressuring police to engage in racial profiling, criminalize unauthorized migrants for 'trespassing' into Arizona, and permit anyone to sue local agencies if they believe that the law isn't being adequately enforced. Such policies are as sweeping as they are dangerous.
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by Jennifer Johnson and Brian Erickson
on March 08, 2010
As we mark International Women’s Day, we remember Esther Chávez Cano, a powerful champion for women’s rights who struggled to eradicate gender-based violence and whose efforts raised worldwide attention to the ever-growing toll of unresolved murders of women and girls in Ciudad Juárez.
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by Lisa Haugaard
on April 06, 2010
Charles Bowden’s Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global
Economy’s New Killing Fields is an unflinching look at the
violence on the U.S.-Mexico border and the failing solutions by both
countries to address it. With an intense sympathy for the many victims
but also a degree of understanding even for a contract killer who finds
God, the author doesn’t let the reader find comfort in anything. The
book, just published by Nation Books (New York: 2010), can be found at
your local bookstore or online distributors. Here are a few selections
from this devastating catalog of violence.
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by Brian Erickson
on December 18, 2009
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
has sought to assure us all that human rights are a priority for the
administration. Unfortunately, the policies in place to secure the
U.S.-Mexico border have hardly been humane. That’s why Thursday,
December 10th, Representative Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) sponsored a showing
of The 800 Mile Wall in honor of the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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