More than 280 women have been found dead in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Ju�rez over the past decade, almost half in brutal murders that remain unsolved.

As the number of women murdered in Ciudad Ju�rez continues to rise, an international human rights commission has held its second hearing on the issue.

On October 18, representatives of the Mexican government appeared before the the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, a branch of the Organization of American States, to explain their failure to find and prosecute the perpetrators and prevent more women from dying. Just two days after the hearing, what seemed to be the remains of another woman were found half-buried on a secondary road near Ju�rez, in the state of Chihuahua, adding to four others discovered in the past month.
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�Irregularities keep happening in the investigations,� Andi�n says. One of the latest bodies to be discovered was initially identified as a woman already found dead last November.

Most of the victims were very young, and 80 percent worked in maquiladoras, Acosta adds. �They were poor and vulnerable women,� from risky parts of the city without safe public transportation or paved and lighted streets. �It seems justice in our state is designed to be inaccessible to poor people,� she says.
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see also:
Juarez, Laboratory of Our Future (also here, and again, here)by the uncompromising Charles Bowden