Judith Galarza

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Judith Galarza Campos (* in Ciudad Juárez ) is a Mexican human rights activist who has campaigned for human rights in Latin America since the 1970s . She is secretary general of the non-governmental Federación Latinoamericana de Asociaciones de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos (FEDEFAM), a Latin American organization of family members of missing , abducted and murdered people - the so-called desaparecidos , in addition to most Latin American countries, countries in Africa and Asia represents .

life and work

Judith Galarza, a maquiladora worker in Ciudad Juárez, who was initially apolitical , has been active as a human rights activist since the disappearance of her two-year-old sister Leticia, who belonged to the armed movement “Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre”, on January 4, 1978 . After unsuccessfully investigating her sister's disappearance, she joined the human rights movement Comité Nacional Pro-defensa de Presos, Perseguidos, Desaparecidos y Exiliados Políticos in 1978 as a member and activist , and in 1983 founded the organization of the family members Comité Independiente de Chihuahua Pro Defensa de Presos, Perseguidos, Exiliados y Desaparecidos Políticos (CICH), which was renamed Comité Independiente de Chihuahua Pro Defensa de los Derechos Humanos (CICH - Independent Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Chihuahua) in 1985 . Today your organization is one of the oldest existing local organizations, which is now affiliated with FEDEFAM ( Federación Latinoamericana de Asociaciones de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos ).

Judith Galarza initially fought with her organization for the clarification and the whereabouts of the disappeared from the 1970s in her hometown Ciudad Juárez in northern Mexico , in the state of Chihuahua on the Rio Grande , right on the border with Texas . Ciudad Juarez is a typical border town and is one of the fastest growing cities in Mexico. The main reason is the settlement of so-called maquiladoras, who employ hundreds of thousands of cheap Mexican workers, over 70 percent of whom are women, in this free trade area. Ciudad Juárez became a magnet for many poor people from all over South and Central America . The city is not only in the grip of foreign companies, but is also a place where powerful drug cartels organize their cocaine and heroin trafficking in the United States of America , as well as a city ​​of feminicide and the drug war in Mexico .

In addition to the clarification and the whereabouts of the Desaparecidos , she is committed to punishing the guilty in court. With her work she has so far been able to achieve various international agreements. In 1992, the UN Declaration was on the Protection of All Persons from violent disappearances ( UN Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance signed). In 2006 the UN Secretary General adopted a convention against enforced disappearance, in which states undertake to create a criminal offense for the crime of enforced disappearance in the criminal code, so that secret detention has since become a criminal offense.

Judith Galarza was honored with the Theodor Haecker Prize for political courage and sincerity from the city of Esslingen am Neckar on July 22, 2007 for her services .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Judith Galarza - Judith Galarza in the fight against disappearance - The Theodor Haecker Prize winner is a guest at the Georgii Gymnasium - For the award of the Theodor Haecker Prize on July 22, 2007
  2. ↑ cf. http://www2.amnesty.de/internet/deall.nsf/windexde/JL2004077
  3. ↑ cf. Archive link ( Memento of the original dated August 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / newspapertree.com
  4. ↑ cf. http://www.esslingen.de/servlet/PB/menu/1212572_l1/index.html accessed on July 22, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Galarza, Judith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galarza Campos, Judith (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Ciudad Juarez