Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa A.C.
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Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa A.C. ("Our Daughters on Their Way Back Home, Civil Association") is a non profit organization composed of mothers, family members, and friends of victims of the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez. The mothers say that their cases have gone unsolved for over 12 years and that they wish to get the murderers of their daughters convicted.
The organization was co-founded by Norma Andrade, mother of Lilia Alejandra Garcia Andrade, who was kidnapped on February 14, 2001 and found dead 10 days later. Many of the victims have been poor working mothers employed in factories in Ciudad Juárez, which is located in the northwestern state of Chihuahua, Mexico, and is located across the Rio Grande from the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas. Since 1993, female bodies have been found in the city, and most of the cases remain unsolved. The group's mission is to put pressure on the Mexican government to solve the murders.
According to Amnesty International, as of February 2005 more than 370 bodies had been found and over 400 women were still missing. [1] In November 2005, BBC News reported Mexico's human rights ombudsman Jose Luis Soberanes as saying that 28 women had been murdered so far in 2005. [2]
The group worked with filmmaker Zulma Aguiar for her documentary Juárez Mothers Fight Femicide, which came out in 2006.
[edit] Footnotes
- 1 Amnesty International, Mexico: Justice fails in Ciudad Juarez and the city of Chihuahua 28 February 2005.
- 2 BBC News, No end to women murders in Mexico 23 November 2005.
[edit] External links
- Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa A.C. The official website of the group has versions in English, Italiano, Francais, Portugués, Deutsch, Català, and Руский.
- Zulma Aguiar Aguiar's website has a clip of the film and also has it for sale.
- Mexico Solidarity Network A 2004 online booklet on the femicides.
