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Seniorita Extraviada, April 14th, 7pm Señorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman tells the haunting story of the more than 350 kidnapped, raped and murdered young women of Juárez, Mexico. Visually poetic, yet unflinching in its gaze, this compelling investigation unravels the layers of complicity that have allowed for the brutal murders of women living along the Mexico-U.S. border. In the midst of Juárez’s international mystique and high profile job market, there exists a murky history of grossly underreported human rights abuses and violence against women. The climate of violence and impunity continues to grow, and the murders of women continue to this day. Relying on what director Lourdes Portillo comes to see as the most reliable of sources – the testimonies of the families of the victims – Señorita Extraviada documents a two-year search for the truth in the underbelly of the new global economy. Funded in part by a grant from the Open Meadows Foundation. About the film: Official site of the film Señorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman Articles and organizations Amigos de las Mujeres de Juarez: a comprehensive site about the murders from an organization whose mission is to "work toward ending crimes against women in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua City and provide financial, logistical, and emotional support to the families of the Cd. Juárez and Chihuahua City serial-killing victims and the Casa Amiga rape and abuse crisis center in Cd. Juárez." Fact sheet on the murders from Amigo de las Mujeres de Juarez Globalized Female Slavery Body Count Women's Global Charter for Humanity: The Women’s GlobalCharterfor Humanity is a proposal to build a world where exploitation, oppression, intolerance and exclusion no longer exist and where integrity, diversity and the rights and freedoms of all are respected. Read the full text on this site, and learn about their world-wide relay march between March 8 and October 17, 2005, where women from various countries will be passing the Charter from country to country. Woman's International League for Peace and Justice Comprehensive links to international women's peace organizations. For Fresno Chapter information, email Barbara Price at bp_lucky13@yahoo.com, Terri Anderson at terria@sti.net, or JoAnn Griffin at lovehays@sti.net. Amnesty International's comprehensive site on the Juarez murders Mexico: Justice Fails in Ciudad Juarez and the City of Chihuahua Ending the Brutal Cycle of Violence Against Women in Ciudad Juárez and the City of Chihuahua Intolerable Killings: Ten years of Abductions and Murders in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua Amnesty International's Q&A regarding the murders The Juárez Murders Mexico: Further Commitment Needed to Stop Violence Against Women in Ciudad Juarez Making Violence against Women Count: Facts and Figures - a Summary from Amnesty International Grass-roots organizations that are working toward resolving these murders Mujeres de Negro U.S. groups that work with families of victims: El Paso Border Coalition Nuestras Hijas http://www.geocities.com/pornuestrashijas/ Coalition Against Violence, Kathy Staudt, Victor Muñoz - kstaudt@utep.edu Federación de Latinoamerica de Asociaciones de Familias de Detenidos Desaparecidos. (Latin American Federation of Families of the Disappeared). The telephone tip line for the murders was announced formally on 4/2/03, at a news conference in El Paso. It is a toll-free number, and all calls will come into the El Paso police department. Tips will be analyzed by El Paso police and FBI before they are forwarded to the Chihuahua state authorities. The toll-free number is (800) 237-0797 if calling from the U.S. Contact your government representative regarding this issue. (You will have to cut and paste into a word processing program to personalize the letter.) Sample letter to Senator Barbara Boxer Sample letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein Sample letter to Congressman George Radanovich (District 19 only)
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