(17 Oct 2003)
Mexico City, Mexico – 17 October 2003
1. Various of press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Santiago Creel, Mexico’s Interior Minister:
"We are announcing a presidential order to appoint a new human rights commissioner in regards to the problems in Ciudad Juarez; particularly the crimes against women. The president has asked me to inform you that today, Maria Guadalupe Morfin, has been appointed to that position."
3. Various of media
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish): Guadalupe Morfin, new Chihuahua state’s Human Rights Commissioner:
"The purpose is to inform society, through the work of the media, and to increase their awareness of the need to keep an eye open and not to sleep peacefully until this problem, that has been going on for ten years, ceases."
5. Press conference
Ciudad Juarez city, Chihuahua state, Mexico
FILE – July 2003,
6. Wide shot of dead body being carried on stretcher
7. Wide shot of police officers
8. Close up of dead body being taken into coroner’s vehicle
9. Various of crime scene
STORYLINE:
Mexican president Vicente Fox announced the appointment of a new commissioner to oversee the investigation into the murders of hundreds of women in the northern city of Ciudad Juarez.
Mexico’s Interior Minister, Santiago Creel, told a press conference the new commissioner would be Maria Guadalupe Morfin – a former president of the Human Rights commission in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
The announcement is part of a 40-point plan launched earlier this year to halt the murders against women in Juarez .
The federal commission is charged with investigating the slayings already committed and work to stop new killings.
It’s main task will be to bring accountability to investigators assigned to the Juarez cases.
Supported by personnel from more than 20 federal agencies, the commission will also promote economic and social development in the area that will help protect would-be victims from future attacks.
Official reports claim that 258 women have been killed over the past decade in Ciudad Juarez.
That tally includes the sexually motivated killings of at least 93 young women, as well as the cases of more than 150 other females who have been killed under other circumstances.
Mexico’s independent National Commission on Human Rights had said it documented 232 such murders.
Other non-governmental groups have estimated the number of victims at more than 300.
Despite a string of arrests by Chihuahua state police, bodies have continued to turn up in and around the city.
In May, federal prosecutors said they would take over the investigation after uncovering evidence that at least 14 of the victims may have fallen pray to international organ traffickers.
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