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Human Rights in Mexico have been an issue for years. The problems include torture, police repression[1], sexual murder[2], and, more recently, news reporter assassinations.[3]
[edit] Sexual murder in Ciudad Juárez
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Since 1992, hundreds of women of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, have been sexually murdered. The death toll of serially related murders in Juárez is climbing past 400, and many women are simply missing according to local news articles[4]. The city of Juárez homicide-disappearance rate for women is 38 times higher than all of the homicides in common North American statistics[5].
Women and young girls from every occupation and age, especially girls on their way to school waiting for their bus in the morning and women working the second shift walking home before dawn from their factories' bus stops are quite vulnerable[6]. The most seriously threatened group is primarily 12 to 21 years of age due to a breakdown of the family according to Chihuahua Institute of the Woman[7]. Save Juarez Project Director, Stephen L. Rush, suspected the drug lords are running a prostitution ring and paying the police to dump the bodies[8]. Save Juarez closed operations in November 2005 after several unsuccessful attempts at safehouses and self-defense training[9].
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