In light of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Nov. 25, an Albuquerque city councilor is urging residents to visit the Women’s Memorial Park to remember women who have fallen victim to violence.
“Women have been victims of various forms of violence for years, even centuries,” Councilor Klarissa Peña said in a statement Wednesday. “One in three women have been victims of violence, domestic or otherwise. Let’s take this day to renew our commitment in Albuquerque to continue to hold perpetrators accountable and find ways to reduce attacks against women in all forms.”
The Women’s Memorial Park — also known as the West Mesa Memorial Park, located at 10780 Pipestone Road SW — opened in remembrance of the unsolved case of eleven women and an unborn child whose remains were found at the site in 2009. The victims’ families helped design the park and the victims’ names are engraved into an oval-shaped path around the memorial.
Peña said it is a “perpetual memorial honoring eleven women and a child who were victims of gender-based violence.”
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