COD Professor Presents “The Women of Juarez, Mexico” March 15 at 1pm

“The Women of Juarez, Mexico” will be presented by College of DuPage Professor Keith Yearman on Wednesday, March 14 1-1:50pm on the Glen Ellyn campus, Student Services Center 3245. Professor Yearman will discuss the tragic and decades-old epidemic of disappearances and murders of women in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico. This poignant, informative event is free and open to the public.

Professor Yearman has traveled to Ciudad Juarez numerous times both on delegations and for his own research. He has attended a human rights tribunal about the murders in Chihuahua City and leads efforts to declassify US government documents declassified concerning the murders.

For more about Yearman's declassification work, visit his web site at

http://www.cod.edu/people/faculty/yearman/juarez_declassification.htm

Yearman is a member of the Geography Department, and the event is sponsored by the Latin American Studies Committee.