1. We declare
that the kidnappings, tortures, and murders of girls and women in Ciudad
Juárez and in the state of Chihuahua,
committed since 1993 to the present, are crimes against humanity
and we demand that their solution become a high priority in the binational
and
international agendas for the defense of human rights.
2. We demand that the governments of Mexico and the United States intervene
in the investigation and solution of these murders, as part of their binational
obligations to protect and defend the human rights of all inhabitants of
the border area.
3. We demand that Mexico
and the United States establish effective technical-legal cooperation
and leads in order to investigate the linkages between transnational
organized crime and the murders in Ciudad Juárez.
4. 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.
5. We demand an in-depth
binational and international investigation into the identities of those
individuals who might have information about the
facts surrounding the murders of women of Ciudad Juárez, or who could
be involved in them, and whose names have been denounced by the
newspapers La Jornada and Reforma of October17 and 31, respectively.
6. We demand the formation of a binational and international human rights
commission that:
- investigates
each and all of the cases of the
murdered women
- 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 defenders of human rights
working on the cases
- has binational
jurisdiction and capacity to
impose sanctions
- and establishes
a Mexico-United States
human rights binational
agreement to prevent
future murders.
7. We demand that any
commission formed by the governments of Mexico and the United States 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 murders of the girls and women of Ciudad
Juárez and the state of Chihuahua.
8. We demand that the
commission be granted the necessary functions and authority to discover
the truth about the crimes, to carry out justice,
and to permanently halt the murders and any kind of violence against
the girls and women of Ciudad Ju árez and the state of Chihuahua.
9. 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 governments, exposing them before the international
community in case they do not meet those recommendations.
10. We demand that the
report written by the mission of experts from the United Nations who visited
Ciudad Juárez in October 2003, directly
examined some of the files of the cases of murdered and disappeared
girls and women, and provided their technical-legal expertise to Mexican
authorities,
be made public and be widely distributed.
11. 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.
12. We demand that
the government of Ciudad Juárez, its planning
entities, and major employers in the region work jointly to provide the
necessary infrastructure that will make Ciudad Juárez a safer place
for everybody, in which women can have the freedom of movement,
as any other human being, without fearing for their lives and their safety.
¡NI
UNA MÁS¡
All
of them are our daughters.
All of them are our loss.
