Honors for Lopez

Honors for Lopez
BERLIN -- Jennifer Lopez has been honored by Amnesty International for producing and starring in "Bordertown," a new film examining the murders of women in a Mexican border city.
Lopez said she felt very humbled to receive the human rights group's Artists for Amnesty award Wednesday from East Timor's Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta, a Nobel Peace laureate.
The 38-year-old singer-actress plays an investigative journalist reporting on the serial killings of women in Ciudad Juarez, on Mexico's border with the U.S.
Amnesty International puts the number of women and girls killed in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua since 1993 -- many after being kidnapped and raped -- at more than 400.
Lopez described it as "one of the world's most shocking and disturbing, underreported crimes against humanity."
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