climate of threats and intimidation, as well as murders and disappearances of human rights defenders who carry out activities in the area, and d) there is a context of risk for women, especially those engaged in human rights activities and those who actively denounce cases of violence against women in the known context of the area. 4. The activities of Luz Estela Castro Rodríguez as a human rights defender in the State of Chihuahua presented by the Commission, namely: a) Mrs. Luz Estela Castro is the founder and director of the Women’s Human Rights Center (CEDEHM), an organization concerned with the issues of femicides, forced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, domestic and sexual violence and human rights defenders. She is also the founder and leading lawyer of the organization known as “El Barzón”, which mainly works on issues related to environmental and water rights. Mrs. Luz Estela Castro is also the Founder of the organization Justicia para Nuestras Hijas (Justice for Our Daughters), concerned with the issues of femicide and human trafficking, and b) she works as a lawyer both at the national and international level, in defense of other human rights defenders who have received threats and whom she has supported in accessing the inter-American system. Thus, Mrs. Luz Estela Castro: i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. supports the litigation of the case of Paloma Angélica Escobar v. Mexico, and measures of protection in favor of her mother; led the request for precautionary measures in favor of two members of the Commission for Solidarity and Defense of Human Rights, an organization that monitors human rights violations in Sierra Tarahumara and Ciudad Juárez; led the request for precautionary measures in favor of the Director of the Human Rights center of Paso del Norte, who monitors human rights violations in Ciudad Juárez; supports the request for precautionary measures in favor of two leaders of the organization “Bowerasa” which defends the rights of indigenous peoples. One of the leaders for whom precautionary measures were requested was murdered in March 2010. The other leader still has precautionary measures; led the action to file a complaint for the death of Marisela Escobedo on December 16, 2010, a well-known human rights defender who publicly denounced the murder of her daughter and also worked intensively on the search for justice in that case. Also, Mrs. Luz Estela Castro has closely monitored the investigations opened into this matter. This search for justice is one of the activities that prompted a series of statements which place her in a situation of extreme risk in the context described, and she is a petitioner in the provisional measures ordered by the Court in the Matter of Alvarado Reyes et al. v. Mexico, and in the case regarding these measures which is currently being processed before the Inter-American Commission. 5. As to the precautionary measures granted by the Inter-American Commission, on June 13, 2008 the Commission issued precautionary measure number MC 147-08 in favor of a group of human rights defenders belonging to the organizations “Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa” (Return Our Daughters) and to CEDHEM, and among the beneficiaries was Mrs. Luz Estela Castro Rodríguez. 2