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Case of Guzmán Albarracín v. Ecuador (Inter-Am. Ct. H.R.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2022

Christina M. Cerna
Christina M. Cerna*
Affiliation:
OAS, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 1979–2012 (ret'd), Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Centre, United States; Co-Chair of the ILA Committee on Human Rights in Times of Emergency.
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Only parties to the ACHR may elect judges to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (the Court) and participate in the development of the jurisprudence of the Court, which to date comprises approximately 450 judgments. An unintended consequence of the lack of English-speaking judges on the Court, given the Court's limited resources, is a time lag in the translation of the Court's judgments into English. The Court's press release of October 6, 2021 indicated that, thanks to the assistance of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Court was able to have seven of its judgments translated into English. The judgment in the case of Paola Guzmán Albarracín et al. v. Ecuador, issued on June 24, 2020, the subject matter of this introductory note, is one of the seven cases recently translated.

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International Legal Documents
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International Legal Materials , Volume 61 , Issue 3 , June 2022 , pp. 374 - 437
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law

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ENDNOTES

1 Press release, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R., I/A Court H.R. translates judgments with the support of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Press Release 68/2021 (Oct. 6, 2021), https://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/comunicados/cp_68_2021_eng.pdf.

2 Case of Guzmán Albarracín et al. v. Ecuador, Merits, Reparations, and Costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (June 24, 2020) https://www.corteidh.or.cr/casos_sentencias.cfm?lang=en.

3 Human Rights Watch, “It's a Constant Fight”: School-Related Sexual Violence and Young Survivors’ Struggle for Justice in Ecuador (2020), https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/media_2020/12/ecuador1220_0.pdf.

4 Inter-Am. Comm'n H.R., Access to Justice for Women Victims of Sexual Violence: Education and Health (Dec. 28, 2011), https://www.oas.org/en/iachr/women/docs/pdf/SEXUALVIOLENCEEducHealth.pdf.

5 Raquel Martín de Mejía (Peru), Case 10.970, Merits, Inter-Am. Comm'n H.R., Report No. 5/96 (1996).

6 Ana, Beatriz, and Celia González Pérez (Mexico), Case 11.565, Merits, Inter-Am. Comm'n H.R., Report No. 53/01 (2001).

7 Id. ¶ 52.

8 Case of the Miguel Castro-Castro Prison v. Peru, Merits, Reparations, and Costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (Nov. 25, 2006), ¶ 312; Case of Favela Nova Brasilia v. Brazil, Preliminary objections, merits, reparations, and costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (Feb. 16, 2017), ¶ 252; Case of Women Victims of Sexual Torture in Atenco v. Mexico, Preliminary objection, merits, reparations, and costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (Nov. 28, 2018), ¶ 193.

9 Case of Guzmán Albarracín, supra note 2, ¶ 152.

10 Id.

11 Id. ¶ 151.

12 Id. n. 144.