Geneva, Switzerland — Norma Andrade's teenage daughter was murdered in 2001, yet nobody has ever faced justice. She is battling the impunity surrounding
Geneva, Switzerland — Norma Andrade’s teenage daughter was murdered in 2001, yet nobody has ever faced justice. She is battling the impunity surrounding femicides in Mexico — despite attacks on her own life.
Andrade became a human rights activist in February 2001 after her 17-year-old daughter Lilia Alejandra Garcia Andrade was murdered in Ciudad Juarez, a city on the US border where thousands of women and girls have been killed since 1993. The film also focuses on the staggering numbers of femicides in Mexico, where the UN estimates that around 10 women are killed per day.“We want justice for Alejandra and all the Alejandras in Mexico.”The activist said her goal was “also to make known our demands regarding the failings of the Mexican state”.
Andrade said she was not very optimistic things would change despite the arrival in June of Mexico’s first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, who has vowed to combat violence against women and strengthen women’s rights.She has been waiting for 23 years to see progress in bringing her daughter’s killers to justice.
But in 2018, “the Mexican state said that everything that had been done for 17 years was useless,” Pena said.
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