For a woman to be heard, "it requires twice the energy, twice the intensity of a man's voice," Esther Chavez said. "This is why I learned to shout for those who couldn't." - (September 26, 2003)

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OBITUARIES Esther Chavez dies at 76; activist decried murders of women in Ciudad Juarez Chavez drew attention to the 1990s killings of several hundred women, which were largely ignored by Mexican authorities, and founded her region's first rape crisis center. By Tracy Wilkinson December 27, 2009 Reporting from Mexico City

Esther Chavez, a vocal champion of human rights who against enormous odds drew attention to the killings and rapes of hundreds of women in the violent border city of Juarez, has died died Friday morning at her home in Ciudad Juarez, a violence-ridden city across the border from El Paso, Texas. She was 76. Chavez died early Christmas morning of cancer, her hometown newspaper El Diario reported Saturday on its website. http://www.diario.com.mx/nota.php?notaid=8a08d7e47979a30aec0d6ca3dc3932b2