5 Law School of the Universidad de San Martín de Porres, concerning the State’s obligation to adopt special measures for vulnerable individuals, rape as torture, and the alleged victim’s right of access to justice;11 v) Fundar, Centro de Análisis e Investigación A.C., which submitted two briefs, one on the indigenous rights recognized by the State and the other on the alleged inexistence of remedies against the rejection of the jurisdiction of ordinary justice in favor of the military justice system;12 vi) the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez A.C. Human Rights Center concerning, inter alia, the relevance of the alleged context of serious human rights violations in which the facts of the case occurred from the point of view of its juridical analysis and for establishing reparations,13 and vii) a law professor and students of the Strategic Litigation and Human Rights course of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico, concerning access to justice in the case of indigenous women, the obligation to investigate, and the military criminal jurisdiction.14 These briefs were duly forwarded to the parties so that they could make any observations they deemed pertinent. 10. On May 24, 2010, the Inter-American Commission, the representatives, and the State forwarded their final written arguments, which were transmitted to the parties in order for them to make the observations deemed pertinent regarding the specific documents sent by Mexico and the representatives with the briefs. III PRELIMINARY OBJECTION 11. In its response to the application, the State filed the objection of “[l]ack of jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court […] to examine violations of the InterAmerican Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women.” Subsequently, at the public hearing, the State “withdr[ew] the preliminary objection invoked in the response to the application.” In its final written arguments, it ratified this withdrawal and clarified that “this does not mean that the State acknowledges violations of the Convention” in the present case; to the contrary, it affirmed that there had been no violations of this international instrument. 12. The Commission and the representatives requested the Court to reject the preliminary objected filed by Mexico and affirmed the subject-matter jurisdiction of respectively, of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team. A copy of the brief was received on April 30, 2010. 11 The brief was received by the Secretariat of the Court on April 30, 2010, and is signed by Miguel Ángel Soria Fuerte, Professor of the Human Rights Studies Center of the Law School, Universidad de San Martín de Porres. 12 The original briefs were received by the Secretariat of the Court on May 6, 2010, and are signed by Miguel A. Pulido Jiménez, Executive Director of Fundar, Centro de Análisis e Investigación, A.C. The copies of these briefs were received on April 30, 2010. 13 The original brief was received by the Secretariat of the Court on May 4, 2010, and is signed by Luis Arriaga Valenzuela and Stephanie Erin Brewer, Director and member, respectively, of the International Area of the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center. A copy of the brief was received on April 30, 2010. 14 The original brief was received by the Secretariat of the Court on May 6, 2010, and is signed by: Fabián Sánchez Matus, Rodrigo Casas Farías, Miguel Ángel Navarrete Barba, Tania Gabriela Casso López Lavalle, Fernando Ojeda Maldonado, Mariana Castañeda Graham, Leopoldo Ortega Ortuño, Priscila Cruces Aguilar, Jonathan Ortiz Campos, Ximena De Iturbide Rangel, Mónica Patricia Pérez Ankarvall, Erika Marcela Estrever Aviña, Héctor Iván Resendiz Herrera, Elías Gallardo Palma, Fabiola Rojo Durand, Edna Teresa Guzmán García, Hugo Tomás Ruelas Gutiérrez, Daniela Hernández Chong Cuy, Paola María Sistach Díaz Chávez, Karla Jordana Hernández Ruiz, Mariana Taladrid Hernández, Alberto Limón-Lason González, María José Villalvazo González and Walter Westphal Oberschmidt, professor and students, respectively of the Strategic Litigation and Human Rights course of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico (ITAM). A copy of this brief was received on May 1, 2010.

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