Maricela Escobedo Ortiz became an outspoken activist in the anti-femicide movement when her daughter was murdered in 2008. She fought the state for two years during an arrest, trial and ultimate acquittal of her daughter’s killer, only to be murdered herself in 2010. Her story has come to exemplify the incompetence or culpability of the Chihuahua state government in the disappearances of so many. Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Sept. 29, 2014. (Photo by Gabriel Romero ©2014)