Since 1993, over 370 young women have been violently killed in Ciudad Juarez – across the border from El Paso, Texas. In the past ten years, Mexico has done little to prevent or investigate these crimes. Recent international pressure has forced Mexico to take notice of this tragedy. The following are documents that will help you learn more about the crimes and what’s being done to solve them.

• LAWG and WOLA Send Letter to Governor of Chihuahua
  In May 2008, LAWG and WOLA sent a letter to the Governor and Attorney General of Chihuahua, Mexico expressing concern following threats against womens’ rights defenders and organizations that call for justice in the cases of the murdered and disappeared girls and women of the state of Chihuahua. Read Letter (in Spanish)
  
  
• Congress Calls for Action on Violence against Women
  In July Congresswoman Solis, with ninety-three of her bipartisan colleagues, sent a letter to Mexican President Felipe Calderon asking him to step up investigations into the muders and disappearances of over 400 women and girls. Read more
  
  
• Congress Condemns Juarez Murders
  The U.S. Congress passed a resolution in May 2006 expressing its sympathy to families of murder victims in Chihuahua State, Mexico, including in Ciudad Juarez.
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• Crying Out for Justice
  A comprehensive review of the Juarez murders since 1993, with information on the murders themselves, the state of investigations, and the Mexican government's response.
  Click here for document (pdf)
  
  
• Scapegoats of Juarez
  Scapegoats details the use of scapegoats and the manipulation of the judicial system in Chihuahua, Mexico to resolve the spate of 410 women's murders there since 1993.
  Click here for report (pdf)
  
  
• Amnesty International:
  Latest on the killings in Juarez, and recommendations for resolving and preventing these crimes.
  Click here
  
  
• Congressional Letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell
  This letter signed by 65 members of Congress urges Secretary Powell to raise the Juarez murders with his Mexican counterparts.
  Letter to Secretary Powell
  
  
• Congressional resolution on the Juarez murders.
  Resolution
  
  
• Article about the congressional delegation to Juarez Mexico.
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• Objectives of congressional delegation to Juarez Mexico.
  Click here
  
  
• Talking Points on the Juarez Murders
  These talking points are the main facts of the situation involving the more than 300 unsolved murders of women in Cuidad Juarez
  Talking Points
  
  
• Congressional Letter on the Juarez Murders
  This letter, signed by 32 members of congress, was sent to President Fox in June of 2003 regarding the Juarez murders.
  Congressional Letter
  
  
• Reponse from Chihuahua governor Martinez to the Amnesty International report
  Click here
  
  
• The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ Special Report on violence against women in Ciudad Juarez
  A comprehensive look at the problems facing the investigation of the murder of over 300 women in the past ten years in this border city
  http://www.cidh.oas.org/annualrep/2002eng/chap.vi.juarez.htm
  For a summary of the special report click here
  
  
• One of the most comprehensive series of articles to date on the Juarez killings by Diana Washington Valdez of the El Paso Times. Click here
  
  
• See how murder rates in Ciudad Juarez compare to murder rates in other border cities. Click here
  
  
• Sexual Harassment and Discrimination in Ciudad Juarez
  A detailed discussion of the climate of sexual harrassment and discrimination in Ciudad Juarez, which is representative of the general lack of respect for women there that contributes to violence against women, by the International Labor Rights Fund, May 2003.
  A Report on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace in Mexico,