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MAY 16-19, 2007

WEDNESDAY, MAY 16
Killers Paradise (Film Screening and Panel Discussion)

THURSDAY, MAY 17
Candlelight Vigil, White Plaza

FRIDAY, MAY 18 - SATURDAY, MAY 19: Conference and Panel Presentations

FEATURED SPEAKERS:
Marcela Lagarde, former member, Mexican House of Representatives

Elena Poniatowska, journalist and novelist

Rita Laura Segato, Professor, Forensic Anthropology at the University of Brasilia, Brazil

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
Eva Arce, human rights activist and mother of Silvia Arce (disappeared in Juarez in 1998)

Lidia Cacho, journalist, writer, and director of a crisis center for women and sexually abused children in Cancun, Mexico

Adriana Carmona, human rights lawyer

Carlos Castresana Fernandez, Project Coordinator of the UN Office on Drugs & Crime, Mexican Regional Office

Lucha Castro, human rights lawyer

Ester Chavez Cano, journalist, feminist, activist and Director of Casa Amiga, the first Womens Crisis Center and Shelter created in Juarez, Mexico

Norma Cruz, activist working with victims families, Guatemala

Paula Flores, community activist and mother of Sagrario Gonzalez Flores (killed in Juarez in April 1998)

Rosa Linda Fregoso, Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz

Judith Galarza, human rights activist and lawyer

Miguel David Meza Argueta, falsely imprisoned by the judicial authorities in the city of Chihuahua and set free in June 2006

Maricela Ortiz, director of Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa (Our Daughters on Their Way Back Home)

Lourdes Portillo, filmmaker

Irene Simmons, artist