Resolutions of the Conference on the Murders of Women in Ciudad Juárez
Produced at Los Angeles, California, November 2, 2003
1. We declare that the excessive number of kidnappings, tortures, and murders of girls and women in Ciudad Juárez and in the state of Chihuahua since the 1990s are crimes against humanity; we demand that solving these crimes be made a high priority of the governments of Mexico and the United States as part of their binational obligations to protect and defend the human rights of all citizens and residents of the Mexican border.
2. We demand the establishment of effective technical-legal cooperation and leads between Mexico and the United States in order to investigate the linkages between international organized crime and the Ciudad Juarez murders.
3. We demand that Hilda Solís, -Democratic Congresswoman for the 32nd District of California, and Guadalupe Morfín Otero, Mexican Sub-Commissioner for the Prevention and Eradication of Violence Against Women in Ciudad Juárez, organize a binational alliance to intervene in clearing up the murders of girls and women in the region.
4. We demand a binational, international investigation into the facts, names and identities of those individuals denounced by the newspapers La Jornada and Reforma in October 2003 as persons who may have information about the commission of or the perpetrators of these crimes.
5. We demand the formation of a binational and international human rights commission that:
1. investigates each and all of the cases of the murdered women
2. has the authority to protect the life and safety of mothers, families, and friends of the victims, as well as that of the informants and the human rights defenders working in the cases
3. has binational jurisdiction and capacity to impose sanctions; and
4. establishes a Mexico-United States human rights binational agreement focused on prevention of future killings of innocent women and girls in Cd. Juarez.
6. We demand that any commission formed by the governments of the U.S. and Mexico to investigate these crimes be designed in accordance with the human rights criteria established by the United Nations (Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Convention to Prevent, Sanction, and Eradicate Violence Against Women by Belem do Pará), so that it effectively addresses the problem of the unsolved murders of the women of Ciudad Juárez and the state of Chihuahua.
7. We demand that the commission be awarded the necessary functions to discover the truth about the crimes, to carry out justice, and to definitively halt the murders and any kind of brutal violence against the firls and women of Ciudad Juárez and the state of Chihuahua.
8. We demand that the human rights commissions and the international and Inter-American Courts of Justice acknowledge our demands and make the pertinent recommendations to our government(s), exposing them before the international community in case they do not meet those recommendations.
9. We demand the wide publid distribution of a report being written by the mission of experts of the United Nations who visited Ciudad Juárez in October 2003 and who examined some of the files of the cases of murdered and disappeared women. We further demand that this group of experts provide technical-legal assistance to relevant Mexican police authorities.
10. We demand economic reparation for the families of the murdered, disappeared, tortured, and raped girls and women of Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua for the moral injury inflicted and the emotional pain and distress caused by the failure of the government to investigate properly the commission of these crimes.
11. We demand that the government of Ciudad Juarez, its planning entities, and major employers in the region work jointly to provide the necessary infrastructure to make Ciudad Juárez a safer place for everybody, and a community in which women can freely travel as any other human being without the fear for her life and safety.
¡NI UNA MÁS¡
All of them are our daughters.
All of them are our loss.