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Mexican Human Rights Activist Esther Chavez, 73, Dies

HeadlineDec 28, 2009

In Mexico, the human rights activist Esther Chávez has died at the age of seventy-three. She helped thousands of female victims of violence in the border city of Ciudad Juárez. The playwright Eve Ensler said of Chavez, “She literally changed the world for women in Juárez, bringing the struggle of the raped, the disappeared, the discarded women and girls to global attention.”

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