This poster is part of the exhibition "Women's Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-Based Inequality, Violence, and Discrimination" at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art from January 17 - May 17, 2025

Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, WorkShop Gallery

Hundreds of young women have disappeared from the Mexican border city of Juarez since 1993 — many of them teenagers who came to Juarez to work in the town's foreign-owned factories, known as "maquilladoras." Many of the victims have the hallmarks of serial killings: they were raped, some had their hands tied or their hair cut or their breasts mutilated. Bodies have been found with their heads crushed or even driven over by a car. The killers appear to prey on a certain type of young woman: slim with big brown eyes and long brown hair. Most of the victims are assaulted on their way home from work.