NGO'S


Most Affirmative plan will propose a policy that exploits another country for its resources, ignoring how women are treated in the process. My partner and I want to propose to plan that allows for our opponents and judges to understand the treatment of Latin American women, specifically in Mexico.

Contention 1 : Work Conditions



The unemployed in Mexico are forced to accept any available employment: “maquiladoras” represent the most dismal sweat shops in the world and carnal abuses of human rights: this is modern day slavery

JSGA No Date
(The Juss Semper Global Alliance; TLWNSI is a long-term program developed to contribute to social justice in the world by achieving fair labour endowments for the workers of all the countries immersed in the global market system. “Mexico: Hell Is The Tijuana Assembly Line”, http://www.jussemper.org/Resources/Corporate%20Activity/mexicohellinmexico'smaquil.html)


Women working in Maquiladoras are exposed to extreme abuse and subject to the worst forms of commodification


Sarria (Research assistant) August 3rd, 2009 (“Femicides of Juárez: Violence Against Women in Mexico” Council of Hemispheric Affairs MLW)



Conditions for the female body are dismal – women in the Maquiladora are reduced to machinery and intolerably abused


Jorgensen September 7th, 2010 (Sierra, “Maquiladoras and the Exploitation of Women’s Bodies” Brian Mawr College Female and Gender Studies) MLW


Contention 2: Femincide






Female disappearance has become legal in Ciudad Juárez.

Wright 08—tenured professor of geography and women’s studies at Penn State

Melissa M., “From Protests to Politics: Sex Work, Women's Worth, and Ciudad Juárez Modernity” [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.09402013.x] – February 29- cut by CJC


The number of murders in Ciudad Juarez continue to rise yet convictions and arrests are rare. Cave 12- foreign correspondent for The New York Times

Damien, “Wave of Violence Swallows More Women in Juárez” [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/world/americas/wave-of-violence-swallows-more-women-in-juarez-mexico.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0]- June 23//CJC



The Mexican government doesn’t protect its women from rape and murder

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Sierra “The Systematic Destruction of Women's Agency in Ju”
[http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/forum/viewforum.php?forum_id=304]




One of the organization that could help, Casa Amiga, has little to no funding

Naomie Strada JULY 29, 2010

http://community.feministing.com/2010/07/29/casa_amiga_has_no_financial_fr/

There are two parts to feminicide, the ones committing the action and the government who allows it to happen

Santos 09
Stephanie, “The Death of Eugenia Baja: Feminicide and Transnational Feminist Organizing among Filipina Migrant Workers”
[http://aascpress.metapress.com/content/c263342l51q7723q/fulltext.pdf]


The woman in latin societies is constructed from the male, forcing Latinas into a subservient rule

Hernandez-Truyol 99 (Berta Esperanza, Professor of Law, St. John's University School of Law, “INTER-GROUP SOLIDARITY: MAPPING THE INTERNAL/EXTERNAL DYNAMICS OF OPPRESSION: Latina Multidimensionality and LatCrit Possibilities: Culture, Gender, and Sex”, Lexis)


Privileging masculinity without recognizing the linkages between different types of violence makes women’s oppression, war and domestic violence inevitable


Jill Steans, Senior Lecturer in International Relations Theory , Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, Gender and International Relations: An Introduction, 1998 p. 101-102



Thus my partner and I advocate that the United Sates Federal government should fund NGOs, such as Casa Amiga