Monday, March 30, 2009

Voiceless in Mexico: the dead women of Juárez...

Claudia Ivette González might still be alive if her employers had not turned her away. The 20-year-old resident of Ciudad Juárez–the Mexican city abutting El Paso, Texas–arrived at her assembly plant job four minutes late one day in October 2001. After management refused to let her into the factory, she started home on foot. A month later her corpse was discovered buried in a field near a busy Juárez intersection. Next to her lay the bodies of seven other young women.
A few months later, María Luisa Carsoli Berumen, a 32-year-old mother of four and the secretary at a battered women's shelter in Juárez, was standing by the shelter entrance when her husband approached. He had a history of domestic violence, and although Carsoli Berumen had reported him to authorities, they had released him. Now, as bystanders watched, he stabbed his wife twice, killing her. Carsoli Berumen became another statistic in a decade-long surge of murders committed against women in this gritty border city. Full story...
See also:
  1. 23 seconds of madness in Monterrey in Mexico...
  2. Honour killings and honour suicides in Turkey...
  3. Haiti, where rape is used as a weapon...
  4. Afghanistan: acid attack girls return to school!!!
  5. Umoja, the Kenyan village where men are forbidden...

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