In the early 1990s, growing numbers of women were reported missing or found dead across the city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Decades later advocates have documented more than 2,000 women were murdered yet none of their killers have been identified or convicted, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Esther Chavez Cano in front of the women s shelter she founded. (Courtesy Photo)
One woman dedicated her life to telling the stories of those women, turning over her collection of documents to the Rio Grande Historical Collections at New Mexico State Universitys Library Archives and Special Collections Department.
Esther Chavez Cano gathered newspaper clippings, magazines and photographs documenting the murders of women and girls, referred to as Femicides in Juarez. Over the years, she had loaned out materials from her collection that were never returned. Cano thought the collection would be safer and more accessible in a library.
In the early 1990s, growing numbers of women were reported missing or found dead across the city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Decades later advocates have documented more than 2,000 women were murdered yet none of their killers have been identified or convicted, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Esther Chavez Cano in front of the women s shelter she founded. (Courtesy Photo) Newspaper clippings from the Esther Chavez Cano Collection housed inside the Rio Grande Historical Collections at New Mexico State Universitys Library Archives and Special Collections Department. (NMSU photo by Dennis Daily) Collection of documents part of the Esther Cano Chavez inside the Rio Grande Historical Collections at NMSU s Library Archives and Special Collections Department. Cano gathered newspaper clippings, magazines and photographs documenting the murders of women and girls, referred to as Femicides in Jua
In the early 1990s, growing numbers of women were reported missing or found dead across the city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Decades later advocates have