Honorary Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Juarez, Mexico, May 1980.

The de Juárez was added to the official name in 1885 to honor Benito Juárez, former President of Mexico (1806 1872).

Screen grab from the Juarez Heroreports map

She went to Juarez to take care of an ailing aunt, and over the course of it, she began to discover what was happening to the murdered and disappeared women of Juarez.

The following video is a trailer in Spanish for the Juárez Heroreports

She gave up her life she moved to Juarez she started to write the stories which documented the disappeared women.

Cross Cultural Issues and the Crime of Adultery , Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 30 April 1981.

Ciudad Juarez is known for being one of the most violent cities in the world, due to drug cartel violence and female homicides.

Here is an example of one short witness report submitted on April 9, 2011, in Ciudad Juárez

Ciudad Juárez, a sprawling Mexican border town that is now the homicide capital of the world, would have to be high on the list.

Four bridges and innumerable tunnels and drainage canals connect Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, Texas.

While the majority of the bloggers, and the most well known ones, are found in Mexico City, we also expect participation from bloggers in cities like Guadalajra, Monterrey, Puebla, Toluca, Ciudad Juárez and many others.

It has taken me to Juarez, Mexico, where I was a week ago, where I have literally been there in parking lots where bones of women have washed up and been dumped next to Coca Cola bottles.

There's a woman named Esther Chavez who I met in Juarez, Mexico. And Esther Chavez was a brilliant accountant in Mexico City she was 72 years old and she was planning to retire.

Addressing the deep seated social and economic problems of a city like Juárez, however, is a lot harder than flooding its streets with 8,000 soldiers carrying assault rifles.

(b) Mr. del Campo indeed confessed to the murders, but did so without even reading the statement which he signed under torture at Bureau of Investigation No. 10 of the Office of the Attorney General in the Benito Juárez municipality of the Federal District

According to Maite Fernandez from the International Journalists' Network, the idea for the project came about in 2009 when Christopher Csikszentmihályi, director of the Center for Future Civic Media visited Ciudad Juarez as part of a delegation that would suggest ideas for improving life in the city.

The initial success of the Juárez Heroreports, which has documented and geo located some 1045 accounts of positive civic actions, has been followed by other sites in Monterrey, México, the border between Tijuana, México, and San Diego, California, USA, and even Kazakhstan.

It started in Ciudad Juárez, México as an initiative of the MIT Center for Civic Media called Crónicas de Héroes , under the direction of Yesica Guerra, a researcher in urban design with a master's degree in Architecture and Urbanism from MIT.

(e) On 14 February 1994, the Internal Control Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the Federal District, initiated administrative proceedings against Juan Marcos Badillo Sarabia and Javier Zamora Cortés, officers of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Benito Juárez, and Sotero Galván Gutiérrez, an officer of the judicial police.

The accounts of the source and the Government reveal that Alfonso Martín del Campo Dodd was tortured on 30 May 1992 while he was in Bureau of Investigation No. 10 of the Office of the Attorney General of the Federal District in Benito Juárez and that he confessed under torture to the murders of which he was convicted.