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(London Metropolitan University) will be delivering a presentation addressing the crisis of violence and security provision in Mexico. It addresses the violence affecting women in Juárez, where nearly 1,500 women have been reported murdered since the mid-1990s, and over 3,000 are still missing. Many of the victims are found strangled, mutilated, dismembered, stabbed, sexually abused, burned and with their breasts cut off in desert zones, vacant lots, stream beds, sewers and rubbish dumps. Elaborated pink crosses adorned with flowers and the victims’ names written in black on the crossbars are located by activists in places where women’s corpses have been found. They symbolise the urgent need for strategies to prevent new murders, the protest against the impunity for the crimes already committed and the demand for adequate revaluation of the ideology that ignores and sometimes justifies physical and structural violence against women in the region. The issue of femicide and the impunity over it ultimately provides evidence of the predetermined value on who is targeted to die in Juárez and why.

All are welcome to attend. Please feel free to bring your own refreshments.