In Ciudad Juarez, New Slew of Missing, Murdered Women

The remains of 12 girls and women have been found in Ciudad Juarez in recent months, increasing concerns that young females are being targeted in the violent Mexican border city. Just six of the victims have been identified, all of them teens reported missing in 2009 and 2010; the other remains are so decomposed as to be mostly skeletal and have not yet been identified, the Los Angeles Times reports. Many women were killed in Ciudad Juarez from 1993 to 2008, and activists are concerned with this new wave of disappearing females—particularly because, they say, authorities are not doing enough to investigate. (More Ciudad Juarez stories.)