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Human Rights In Juez Essay

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The poor are not the only social disadvantaged group in Mexico. Ciudad Juárez, is a remarkable gender focus case in the Mexican crime scene. Connected to the Juárez cartel, the city is deeply plagued with crime, drug trafficking and corruption; not only so, it is most recognizable for its heinous cases of feminicide. After the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico was invaded with maquiladoras along its border, thus giving the opportunity of employment, as wells as, encouraging the migration of mostly young women to Ciudad Juárez. The high concentration of vulnerable women in Juárez is only equal to the high rates of murder and abuse of women. According to Amnesty International – a non-governmental organization focused on human rights – more than “800 bodies had been …show more content…

“Neglect or dismissal of human rights demands can raise the stakes for low-intensity conflict to high-intensity conflict” (Mertus, 5). While the government fights the drug cartels and tries to portray a winning picture to its citizens, and the drug cartels fighting each other while involve in other criminal acts, the Mexican people find itself in the middle of the conflict. While dealing with the cartels, the government should also focus in the security and human rights of its citizens. Division within a county will flare into violence again (Lutz, 36); thus the government must address the conflict with the help of its own people, taking into account their security and human rights before the state’s. To do so, the government must link human rights and conflict resolution; Cultural, social, economic, political, and other structures create an architecture for relationships and help determine whether resources will be shared relatively equally (Schirch, 68). The government success in the Drug War rest in its ability to unite its people, destroy the gaps that divide its citizens and respect the human rights of all of its

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