For over ten years, hundreds of women in the Mexican town of Juarez have been kidnapped, raped, murdered and grotesquely maimed. After years of official apathy and police incompetence towards solving and ending these brutal murders, a group of graphic designers from Mexico City invited colleagues to express their concern and outrage by designing posters around the slogan 'The Woman of Juárez Demand Justice'. Following is the powerful exhibition of more than 60 large-format images by designers from all over the country that was first staged in a Mexico City metro station, where they were seen by huge numbers of people who may not often visit museums and galleries. The exhibition is currently traveling throughout Mexico, educating about the murders and forcing the authorities to become involved.

The digital images are courtesy of Leonel Sagahón.

A recent article on these graphics, "Femicide Posters" by Daoud Sarhandi, can be seen at http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=71&fid=474

The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and Amnesty International organized a three-day conference on the Juarez murders. Although the conference is over, there is useful information on their site: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/chavez/maqui_murders

The artists' names listed below correspond to the order of the images in the virtual exhibition.

(Asterisks indicate the designers who participated in the first design activity.)