App turns Mexican women’s phones into panic buttons

CIUDAD JUREZ, Mexico: The Mexican city of Juarez has been dubbed “the capital of murdered women”: since the 1990s, hundreds of women have been raped, killed and dumped in the desert, or simply disappeared without a trace. 

Now the border city, which sits across from El Paso, Texas, is fighting back by launching an application that turns women’s cellphones into panic buttons.