ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the ways in which the Internet has created a diverse community of activists working with the human rights issues of the two-decades-long epidemic killings of women. Shocked by the governmental lack of concern for these murders, the killings of Juarez have become a popular subject for cyberactivism. The nature of social mobilization is changing quickly; cyberactivism is a phenomenon in which many social groups are using the Internet to provide countergovernment data in what we can call glocal cyberactivism. Multiple civic and social groups use the concept of motherhood in their search for justice. It evolves from both the idea that there is no purer love than the maternal one from the intrinsic innocence of any child. Cyberspace becoming the center of global awareness and political action, allowing the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez to become a metaphor for gender-related human rights violations.
