(Mon 5th / 8pm / £3/2 but nobody refused entry for a lack of funds)

In the popular TV show CSI, the drama centres around the vast
technological and material resources that smart forensic scientists pour into solving murders. But in reality, if you are poor and female, life (and death) is not like that: Since 1993, 400 predominantly poor young women have been found murdered in the Mexican border town of Ciudad
Juarez. Despite appeals from the victims' families, Mexican authorities have been loath to investigate, leading to one of the most notorious
gender-based human-rights violations in the world. In his gripping
documentary 'On the Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juarez' by filmmaker Steve Hise explores the murders and the social constructs of gender and class that have allowed the tragedies to continue unimpeded.

Bristol Indymedia is pleased to have Professor Gill Hague of Bristol
University to introduce the screening and talk a little about the
issues. Professor Hague is the director of the Violence against Women Research Group and has worked on these issues for more than 30 years as an activist, a practitioner in domestic violence projects and as a
researcher and has been involved in many international projects.

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