The shooting death of a women's rights activist in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, is putting the issue of 'femicides' back into the spotlight as violence against women in the country continues to increase. (1/5)
"Isabel's dreams and projects were truncated ... we will continue raising our voice for Isabel and all the women victims of femicide in Ciudad Juárez," Mesa de Mujeres said in a statement obtained by NBC News.
The university insisted"that justice be done in this and in the other pending cases of students who have died" because of the city's dangers.“We will do a very serious investigation, not to end the protests and media pressure, but to find those responsible and get justice for the cowardly aggression against Isabel Cabanillas, that has hurt all of us,” Corral said in a Twitter post.
Cabanillas' slaying follows a hearing on a femicide case Baeyens and others brought last September before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of six young women and girls between the ages of 6 and 20 who had disappeared and were killed — including the disappearance of a woman and her 24-day-old daughter — in Juarez between 1995 and 2003. The case is pending.
Often, families become the main investigators, looking for and interviewing witnesses and potential perpetrators, at great risk, Baeyens said.
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