On July 22, 2003, the federal government launched its Plan of Actions to Prevent and Combat Violence against Women in Ciudad Juárez.

The Program incorporates recommendations from national and international human rights organizations such as the Mexican government’s National Human Rights Comission (Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos, CNDH) and the OAS’s Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, CIDH).

The plan’s actions are oriented along three strategic lines:

In its first month of operation, the comprehensive public security plan has resulted in a 14% decrease in Ciudad Juarez’s crime rate

On August 13, the Joint Prosecutor for the Investigation of Women’s Homicides (Fiscalía Mixta para la Investigación de Homicidios de Mujeres) [composed of federal and state prosecutors] was created in Chihuahua City.

Since the beginning of the Fox administration, the Federal Attorney General’s Office has requested that the FBI provide permanent, ongoing training to personnel from the Chihuahua state attorney general’s office in investigation techniques.

The Chihuahua state attorney general’s office reached an agreement with the CIDH to submit periodic reports regarding cases being handled by the Special Prosecutor for Investigating Women’s Murders in Ciudad Juarez.

The actions carried out by the Social Development Secretariat are aimed at completing infrastructure and public works projects to improve the neighborhoods with high rates of poverty.

Agreements are being signed with civil society organizations to encourage social capital projects in areas such as the prevention of domestic violence, attention to vulnerable groups, promoting a culture of legality and combating corruption, informal education and community health, drug addiction prevention and treatment, and promoting a gender-based perspective.

On August 6, 2003, Mayor of Ciudad Juarez launched a Day of Information, Orientation, and Training regarding Comprehensive Actions for the Prevention of Violence and Crime, the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights, Attention to Victims, and Community Services.

The main objective of this program is to detect anti-social and criminal conduct in family, school, work, and community settings, in order to design and establish factors to combat and lessen those behaviors.

To help pregnant adolescents in Ciudad Juarez continue their studies, the Education Secretariat and the National Women’s Institute have allocated 1.34 million pesos towards 206 university scholarships for 379 women.

In the months of July and August, these groups have provided economic assistance to 787 migrants, have helped advise 857 women, and have conducted 53 patrols.

The Public Health Secretariat has allocated a budget of 1.5 million pesos towards improving and professionalizing a shelter for victims of domestic violence in the state of Chihuahua.

The Public Health Secretariat has allocated 1.35 million pesos for the opening of two shelters for women victims of violence.