Juarez Photo Gallery

by Kari Lydersen
Memorial crosses are erected in Juarez by victims' families and supporters



by Michael Robinson-Chavez
A high school student passes one of the crosses painted on telephone poles throughout Ciudad Juarez to remind women of the more than 250 women missing or killed since 1993



by Michael Robinson-Chavez
A young boy runs down a dirt road through Colonia Mexico 68, the squatters neighborhood of concrete cubicles and cardboard shanties. The giant US assembly plants stand in the Juarez Industrial Park in the distance



by Michael Robinson-Chavez
Children post their artwork on the cardboard walls of their primary school. Some schoolhouses, like this one in the San Francisco neighborhood, are constructed with the cardboard cartons cast off by the maquiladoras



by Michael Robinson-Chavez
On Friday mornings, the young women arrive at the Juarez Industrial Park dressed for after-work bar hopping and disco dancing. The Ruta 7 bus line, pictured here, is the same bus line that 12-year-old Irma Angelica Rosales boarded the day she was reported missing.



by Michael Robinson-Chavez
Open graves sit in a remote corner of the San Rafael cemetery in the desert outside Ciudad Juarez. The empty graves wait for "desconocidos," the dead who have no relatives or friends to identify them and remain unknown.



by Michael Robinson-Chavez
Angel Atayre, 12, holds a banner with a picture of his mother, Sylvia, who disappeared in Ciudad Juarez more than two years ago. Angel was in a march through the streets of Ciudad Juarez to promote the end of violence toward women.



by Linda Stetler
Josefina Gonzales clutches the overalls her daughter Claudia Ivette wore when she was killed. Two boys found the clothing when volunteers from El Paso, New Mexico and Juárez combed the area in east-central Juárez in February, almost four months after the bodies of Claudia and seven other women were found there



by Marisa Penaloza
At the border crossing leading to the bridge over the Rio Grande and El Paso, Texas, a memorial to the slain women reads: "Not One More."



by John Burnett
Norma Andrade de Garcia holds a picture of her daughter, Alejandra, kidnapped on Valentine's Day 2001. Her nude, mutilated body was dumped in an empty lot six days later.



by John Burnett
Ramon Anaya, in the foreground, is a former water department employee who volunteers with a group that searches for skeletons in the desert in the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez



by Marisa Penaloza
The Guadalajara Izquierdo neighborhood northwest of Juarez is where many maquila (factory) workers live. Bodies of women have been found nearby



from CNN.com
The section of desert where many of the dead women were found is known as the "labyrinth of silence"