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xii) Office of the Public Prosecutor to provide attention to women victims of
violence
275. The representatives asked the Court to order the Mexican State to create an
Office of the Public Prosecutor, specialized to provide attention to women victims of
violence in Ayutla de los Libres, Guerrero. It should have appropriate technical and
financial resources and personnel trained to handle cases such as this one who are
conversant with the international standards for treating women victims of violence
and torture.
276. Mexico indicated that there is a Special Prosecutor’s Office for the
Investigation of Sexual Offenses and Domestic Violence in the state of Guerrero, to
which seven agencies specialized in sexual violence depend, located in each one of
the regions that compose the state, and where female personnel attend to the
agencies, as well as a Special Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes of Violence against
Women and Human Trafficking, adjoined to the Office of the Attorney General of
the Republic. Additionally, during the public hearing in this case and in the final
written arguments, the State indicated that the government of the state of
Guerrero has taken numerous steps to provide attention to Guerrerense indigenous
women through different entities, including the Secretariat for Women’s Affairs and
the Secretariat of Indigenous Affairs, such as the existence of twenty-five municipal
units addressing violence against women. In addition, it reported that in order to
offer more services that address psychological, legal, and social work, two mobile
units were acquired to assist and prevent violence for the women of the Mountain
and Costa Chica regions, that offer special attention to municipalities and towns
that lack these types of services given that they are the areas with the highest level
of marginalization and with a high level of indigenous peoples. Lastly, it reported
that the Defense and Legal Aid Program for Indigenous Peoples, whose actions are
aimed at offering defense and legal aid services and administrative procedures in
favor of the indigenous population that include interpretation services and the
provision of medications, hospitalization, and laboratory studies to women, victims
of violence.
277. The Court assesses the information provided by the State and notes that the
representatives have not commented on the various actions, mobile units, and
institutions mentioned by Mexico, nor have they provided information on the
possible problems with these. Based on the aforementioned, the Court does not
have specific and sufficient information to assess the situation and order the
creation of the office requested by the representatives.262 Nevertheless, the services
addressing women victims of violence must be provided by the institutions
indicated by the State, among others, the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Ayutla de los
Libres, by means of the provision of material and personal resources, whose
activities must be strengthened by the trainings ordered in the present Judgment.
278. Lastly, the Court observes that the report carried out by the Secretariat for
Women’s Affairs of the state of Guerrero provided by Mexico, identified, among
other institutional impediments that prevent attention to violence in indigenous and
rural areas, the concentration of said services in cities, and the problems in access
and transportation to the locations were those services are provided.263 Said report
262
The expert Hernández Castillo noted that this measure of reparation, “is a request that does not
directly satisfy the injured person, Inés Fernández Ortega”, given her distrust of the State. On the other
hand, she mentioned as a possible model, the State Program on Attention to Victims of Domestic and/or
Sexual Violence that operates in Chilpancingo, Guerrero. Cf. Expert anthropological report of Mrs.
Hernández Castillo presented at the public hearing (case file on the merits, tome V, folios 1672 and
1673).
263
Cf. Network Development 2008, Secretariat for Women of the state of Guerrero and National
Network of Shelters, supra note 55, folio 13320.
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