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- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights - Organization of
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States (OAS) - http://www.cidh.oas.org/DefaultE.htm
MEXICO - INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF
HUMAN RIGHTS CITES MEXICO VIOLATION IN CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN IN CIUDAD
JUAREZ
On July 7, 2009, CJA joined several humans rights and women’s rights organizations, law school clinics and law professors as an amicus, urging the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to find that the government of Mexico did not fulfill its human rights obligations because it failed to effectively investigate, prosecute and prevent crimes against women and girls in Ciudad Juárez.
ABOUT OUR
BRIEF
In our brief, CJA recognized the global
consensus that gender-based violence violates the basic human rights of women
and children and that Nation-States must provide effective protection from such
violence.
Our brief asked the court to address the issue with a broad range of remedies.
The remedies must not only be based on criminal justice. They must also
include ways to address the factors of economic, social, and political
disempowerment that perpetuate the cycle of violence against women in Ciudad
Juárez.
The brief urged the court to craft its remedies while relying on Articles 7, 8
and 9 of the Convention Belém do Pará. These articles outline a
comprehensive set of State obligations to eradicate violence against women, and
to protect women from all forms of gender-based violence. They also
reflect the importance that this hemisphere places on providing women and girls
with safe communities.
We urged the court to send the message that States must comply with their
international human rights obligations by exercising due diligence when
investigating and responding to gender-based violence, and that they must
ensure that local authorities do the same.
ABOUT THE CASE
On
November 4, 2007, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) filed a
case against Mexico for the disappearance and murders of Claudia Ivette
González, Esmeralda Herrera Monreal and Laura Berenice Ramos Monárrez. The
murders occurred in Ciudad Juárez, a city on the border of the U.S. and Mexico,
where gender-based violence, including abduction, rape and murder targeting
women has become endemic. The bodies of the women, two of whom were minors,
were discovered on November 6-7, 2001 in an abandoned cotton field known as
Campo Algodonero. The case was submitted to the Inter-American Court of Human
Rights, which held two public hearings on April 28-29, 2009.
UPDATE
On December 10, 2009, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued an opinion finding Mexico in violation of human rights conventions under the American Convention of Human Rights and the Convention Belém do Pará. The Court ordered Mexico to comply with a broad set of remedial measures including a national memorial, renewed investigations and reparations of over $200,000 each to the families in the suit.
Attached Documents
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