Selvas Gómez y otras / Mujeres de Atenco
Case- Summary
The facts of the case concern police operations on May 3rd and 4th in 2006 in the municipalities of Texcoco and San Salvador Atenco within the context of a conflict that arose from the protest by a group of flower-growers. A group of eleven women were subjected to various forms of sexual violence at the time of their arrest and while deprived of liberty.
The sentence of the IA Court analyzes the limits imposed by international human rights law to the use of force by security forces, especially in contexts relating to the exercise of the right of assembly.
It also develops standards about the sexual nature of the violence committed against the women victims of the case including considerations about the verbal abuse to which they were subjected, and addresses the acts of violence from the perspective of torture and its use as an intentional form of social control.
The IA Court also includes in its analysis the behavior of the health professionals who treated the victims. In considering the characteristics of the deprivation of freedom suffered by the women, some specifications were established in relation to the State’s obligations when collective detentions are presumed to have happened.
Lastly, due diligence in relation to the investigations about the facts surrounding sexual violation are analyzed.
- Status
- Active
- Country
- Presentation to the IACommission
- Apr 29, 2008
- Submission to the IACourt
- Sep 17, 2016
- IACommission / Merits report: rights violated
ACHR IACBdoPara IACPPT 7.4, 1.1 8.2.b, 8.2.d, 8.2.e, 1.1 5.1, 5.2, 11.1, 24, 1.1 7.a 1, 6 8.1, 25.1, 1.1 7 1, 6, 8 5.1
- IACourt / Judgment: rights violated
ACHR IACBdoPara IACPPT 5.1, 5.2, 11, 1.1, 2 7 1, 6 15, 1.1 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.2.b, 8.2.d, 8.2.e, 1.1 8.1, 25.1, 1.1, 2 7.b 1, 6, 8 5.1, 1.1
- Descriptors
- Discrimination
- Gender violence
- Stereotypes
- Torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
- Use of force
- Court documents
- Mujeres de Atenco. Order of the IACourt. October 7, 2019
- Mujeres victimas de tortura sexual en Atenco. Judgment. November 28, 2018
- Mujeres Victimas de Tortura SExual en Atenco. Resolucion de la CorteIDH de 19 de noviembre de 2020
- Selvas Gómez y otras / Mujeres de Atenco. Hearing. November 16, 2017
- Selvas Gómez y otras / Mujeres de Atenco.Hearing. November 17, 2017
- Selvas Gómez y otras. Order of the President of the IACourt. October 18, 2017
- Documentos de la comisión
- Geolocalización de los hechos
- Geolocalización de los hechos (linked Place of the events)
- Selvas Gómez y otras / Mujeres de Atenco