For more than a decade, the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico has been a killing field for young women– over 400 unresolved murders and many more abductions have been recorded. This horrifying fact has generated a series of special prosecutors, several federal and state commissions, a case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and volumes of academic analysis. Yet the killings continue and most of the cases remain unresolved.

Macrina Cárdenas Alarcón has spent over ten years organizing to end the femicides, both with human rights organizations and groups led by families of femicide victims. In her presentation, she will address the social, political and cultural context in Ciudad Juárez, with particular emphasis on the impact of neoliberal policies, narco-trafficking, corrupt/inept local officials, and the important and dangerous grassroots organizing of the families of murdered women in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua City.

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