31 flourished – and a place of transit for Mexican and foreign migrants.64 The State, as well as various national and international reports, mention a series of factors that converge in Ciudad Juárez, such as social inequalities65 and the proximity of the international border,66 that have contributed to the development of different types of organized crime, such as drug-trafficking,67 people trafficking,68 arms smuggling69 and money-laundering,70 which have increased the levels of insecurity and violence.71 1.2. Phenomenon of the murder of women, and numbers 114. The Commission and the representatives alleged that, since 1993, the number of disappearances and murders of women and girls in Ciudad Juárez has increased significantly. According to the Commission, “Ciudad Juárez has become a focus of attention of both the national and the international communities because of the particularly critical situation of violence against women which has prevailed since 1993, and the deficient State response to these crimes.” 64 Cf. Radiografía Socioeconómica del Municipio de Juárez 2002, supra note 63, folio 8492; IACHR, The Situation of the Rights of Women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico: The Right to be Free from Violence and Discrimination, OEA/Ser.L/V//II.117, Doc. 44, March 7, 2003 (case file of attachments to the application, volume VII, attachment 1, folio 1742); United Nations, Report on Mexico produced by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women under Article 8 of the Optional Protocol of the Convention, and reply from the Government of Mexico, CEDAW/C/2005/OP.8/MEXICO, 27 January 2005 (case file of attachments to the application, volume VII, attachment 3b, folio 1921); United Nations, Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Yakin Ertürk, Integration of the human rights of women and a gender perspective: violence against women, Mission to Mexico, E/CN.4/2006/61/Add.4, January 13, 2006 (case file of attachments to the application, volume VII, attachment 3c, folio 2011), and Amnesty International, Mexico: Intolerable killings: 10 years of Abductions and Murders or Women in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua, AMR 41/027/2003 (case file of attachments to the application, volume VII, attachment 6, folio 2267). 65 Cf. Report on Mexico produced by CEDAW, supra note 64, folio 1921; Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, supra note 64, folio 2011; Amnesty International, Intolerable killings, supra note 64, folio 2268, and Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos A.C., Compendio de recomendaciones sobre el feminicidio en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, 2007 (case file of attachments to the pleadings and motions brief, volume XX, attachment 11(1), folio 6564). 66 Cf. CNDH, Informe Especial de la Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos sobre los Casos de Homicidios y Desapariciones de Mujeres en el Municipio de Juárez, Chihuahua, 2003 [Special Report of the National Human Rights Commission on the Cases of Homicides and Disappearances of Women in the Municipality of Juarez, Chihuahua, 2003] (case file of attachments to the application, volume VII, attachment 5, folio 2168); Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, supra note 64, folio 2011, and Amnesty International, Intolerable killings, supra note 64, folio 2267. 67 Cf. IACHR, The Situation of the Rights of Women in Ciudad Juárez, supra note 64, folio 1742; Report on Mexico produced by CEDAW, supra note 64, folios 1921 and 1922; CNDH, Informe Especial, supra note 66, folio 2168, and Comisión para Prevenir y Erradicar la Violencia contra las Mujeres en Ciudad Juárez [Commission for the Prevention and Eradication of Violence against Women in Ciudad Juarez], Primer Informe de Gestión, November 2003-April 2004 (case file of attachments to the answer to the application, volume XXV, attachment 7, folio 8666). 68 Cf. Report on Mexico produced by CEDAW, supra note 64, folio 1922, and Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, supra note 64, folio 2011. 69 Cf. Comisión para Prevenir y Erradicar la Violencia contra las Mujeres en Ciudad Juárez, Primer Informe de Gestión, supra note 67, folio 8666, and Report on Mexico produced by CEDAW, supra note 64, folio 195. 70 Cf. Report on Mexico produced by CEDAW, supra note 64, folio 1922, and Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, supra note 64, folio 2011. 71 Cf. IACHR, The Situation of the Rights of Women in Ciudad Juárez, supra note 64, folio 1742; Report on Mexico produced by CEDAW, supra note 64, folios 1921 to 1922; CNDH, Informe Especial, supra note 66, folio 2168, and Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos A.C., Compendio de recomendaciones, supra note 65, folio 6564.