Jump to navigation. The news remains fresh only to the victims' families, and to out-of-town journalists who still fly into the Texas city of El Paso to cover the carnage just across the international line. A small central district with fading, colonial-style mansions is ringed by miles of dusty shantytowns, and traffic jams in which aging cars and buses jostle each other while ferrying thousands of workers to the city's vast industrial parks. Forty years ago, the industrial parks did not exist and things were much quieter.
Characteristics of Female Sex Workers With US Clients in Two Mexico-US Border Cities
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Quasilegal prostitution in both cities attracts large numbers of sex tourists. At baseline, participants underwent interviews, antibody testing for HIV and syphilis, and vaginal swabs for detecting gonorrhea and Chlamydia. Median age and duration in sex work were 32 and 4 years. Intensified binational prevention efforts involving both FSWs and their clients are urgently needed. OF THE 5. Commercial sex work is considered quasilegal in Mexico; female sex workers in Tijuana are required to obtain permits if they wish to work without prosecution in the Zona Roja red light zone , but more than half operate without.
After surveying killings out of documented between and , a government committee found that roughly half were prompted by motives like robbery and gang wars, while a little more than a third involved sexual assault. For this reason, Amnesty International reports, "Inadequate official data on the crimes committed in Chihuahua , particularly accurate figures on the exact number of murders and abductions of girls and women, has led to disputes around the issues that obscure the quest for justice. Of the various different kinds of murders that were analyzed, the study found two common patterns in the data which were classified as intimate feminicide and systemic sexual feminicide. Systematic sexual feminicide refers to systematic patterns in the killing of women and children including kidnapping, sexual violence, torture, and body abandonment in areas such as desert areas, garbage dumps, and sewage ditches among others. According to Molly Molloy, a research librarian and professor at New Mexico State University also founder and maintainer of "Frontera List", a long-running mailing list dedicated to information and discussion about issues in the U.
CNN Esperanza was waiting for her cousins outside her high school in Mexico one day, when a strange man drove up in a car, forced her inside with him and sped away. At that moment, Esperanza had in effect become a sex slave. Chat with us in Facebook Messenger.