Beacon of Hope for Women, Girls

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Mexico's military, which does much of what would be considered police work north of the border, protests that it has its hands too full chasing narcotraficantes to spend much time on the unsolved murders of hundreds of women and girls in Ciudad Juarez.

Los Angeles lawyer M.C. Sungaila and her colleagues who took the Mexican government to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Costa Rica have long begged to differ. The indifference of the Mexican authorities to the heinous crimes over the last decade is a crime in itself, they have argued, and have taken up the case of the women and their families on a pro bono basis.

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Beacon of Hope for Women, Girls

Sungaila has an Inland Empire connection in that she is a member of the Arts & Humanities...

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