OUGD505 - Studio Brief 02 - Drug War - Missing People Posters

Mexico City protests for the 43 missing students of 2014.

Signs saying “We are missing 43”:

Images from New York Times

Poster layout:

Vivo se lo Llevaron = 'They took it alive'

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The number of people in Mexico disappearing under suspicious circumstances, often related to drug violence, rose to 30,000 by the end of 2016 - National Human Rights Commission


Demonstrators march to protest against violence in Mexico City, on August 14, 2011. The continuing tide of drug-related killings in Mexico drew thousands of protesters to march against violence. The sign reads in Spanish: "Stop the war. No to the National Security Law"

Pictures of victims of violence are hung on the facades and walls of houses in the neighborhood of Cerro Gordo in Ecatepec, outside Mexico City, on March 7, 2012. The Murrieta Foundation opened an exhibition called "Giving face to the victims in Ecatepec" with 15 giant photographs placed on houses as part a campaign against violence (rape of women, kidnappings, murders and robberies) in Ecatepec.

Columbia

More than 92,000 Colombians have disappeared during 50 years of war at the hands of drug gangs.

Disappeared: the Right to Know

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Colombia launched its “Disappeared: the Right to Know” campaign Saturday to draw attention to the more than 90,000 cases of forced disappearances that have occurred during Colombia’s more than half-century armed conflict.

International Day of the Disappeared

The International Day of the Disappeared on is a day created to draw attention to the fate of individuals imprisoned at places and under poor conditions unknown to their relatives and/or legal representatives.