Norma Andrade is one of the founding members of Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa A.C.

Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa A.C.

Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa A.C. is a non profit organization composed of mothers, family members, and friends of victims of the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez. The mothers claim that their cases have gone unsolved in some cases for over 12 years...

, a Mexican

Mexican people

Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

 non-profit association of mothers whose daughters have been victims of female homicides in Ciudad Juárez

Female homicides in Ciudad Juárez

The phenomenon of the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez, called in Spanish the feminicidios and las muertas de Juárez , involves the violent deaths of hundreds of women since 1993 in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, a border city across the Rio Grande from the U.S. city of El...

. Her daughter, Lilia Alejandra García Andrade, disappeared on February 14, 2001. On February 21, Lilia Alejandra's body was found wrapped in a blanket. On her body were signs of physical and sexual assault.

External links

• Amnesty International. Failure to Respond to Crime Reports: The Case of Lilia Alejandra Garcia
• Osborn, Corie. Interview: Juarez Mother Counters Violence with Activism Off Our Backs. Mar/Apr 2004