More than 500 women were killed between 1993 and 2011 in Ciudad Juárez, a city in northern Mexico. [1] [2] The murders of women and girls received international attention primarily due to perceived government inaction in preventing the violence and bringing perpetrators to justice. [3]

Dec 2, 2022 · Thirty years ago, the bodies of two girls were found in the city. It was the beginning of a gruesome series of more than 2,300 murders of women so far.

Jan 30, 2002 · Hundreds of young women have disappeared from the Mexican border city since 1993 — many of them teenagers who came to Juarez to work in the town's foreign-owned factories, known as "maquilladoras." The official toll is 260 women killed since 1993, but local women's groups believe the actual number is more than 400.

Aug 31, 2021 · The Crimes Against Women unit investigated 172 women’s murders in 2019, a total of 192 in 2020 and 127 so far this year, including 19 just in the month of August. The total homicide count in Juarez reached 1,497 in 2019, then …

Aug 31, 2021 · The latest killing of a woman in Juarez took place on Monday. Juarez police found the body of a young woman inside the trunk of an abandoned car.

Jan 18, 2022 · More than 500 women have been murdered in Juarez in the past three years, including 172 in 2021. Police said the vast majority of those killings were drug-related, as the drug cartels equally recruit men, women, and teenagers to keep their business running.

Aug 17, 2020 · From cults to cold-blooded killers to cartels and crooked cops, two journalists dive deep into finding answers to who’s responsible for the mysterious deaths of the women in Juárez in the new podcast “Forgotten: The Women of Juárez.”

Feb 22, 2003 · Just this week, the bodies of four more women were found half buried in the desert on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The grim discovery brings to nearly 100 the number of young women...

Mar 8, 2023 · JUÁREZ ‒ Grieving mothers walked early Wednesday morning to the southern bank of the Rio Grande in Juárez to demand justice for their daughters who were murdered as the result of femicide — the...

Jul 1, 2024 · In 2023, 25 people in the border town of Ciudad Juárez died by feminicidio, or feminicide — the highest number in Mexico, which itself is a global epicentre of gender-based violence.