Esther Chávez Cano was a human rights activist for Ciudad Juarez and founded a women's rights activist group, Ocho de Marzo(Eight of March), in 1992. Later in 1999 founded Casa Amiga, a shelter for women who have experienced sexual or physical abuse. 

The Esther Chavez Cano Collection was donated by Esther herself in hopes for others to continue the work she has started. It is located at the Rio Grande Historical Collection in New Mexico State University’s Archives and Special Collections. Most of the collection is composed of newspaper articles and clippings from various newspapers throughout Juarez, however, there are magazines and posters collected by Ms. Chavez herself. The various clippings document the murders of women, how the femicide movement came to be, and even articles written by Ms. Chavez.

This digital exhibit showcases the gendered violence known as feminicide in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, and some parts of El Paso, Texas, during the early and late 1990s. The El Paso-Juarez borderland region is on the United States and Mexico border. Feminicide is known as the "genocide against women, and it occurs when the historical conditions generate social practices that allow for violent attempts against the integrity, health, liberties, and lives of girls and women" (Fregoso & Bejarano, 2010). With the help of the Esther Chávez Cano Collection, located in the New Mexico State University Archive and Special Collections Library, I was able to create this website to showcase the discourse that many around the borderland region were having concerning the killings of women throughout the early and late 1990s. 

https://lib.nmsu.edu/exhibits/chavezcano/bio.shtml