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resources to carry out their work, as well as such measures of protection as may be
ordered, if any; c) the measures of protection ordered for the benefit of the witnesses, and
d) any substantive progress made in the relevant investigations and proceedings.
D) Measures of satisfaction and guarantees of non-repetition
196. In this regard, the State claimed it would “comply with such measures as the
Honorable Court may order in this regard.”
1) Publication of the relevant parts of this Judgment
197. The Commission requested the Court to order the State “to publish the judgment to
be rendered by the Court in the printed and broadcast media.”
198. Furthermore, the representatives requested the Court “the publication of the whole
Judgment both in the Official Gazette and in two newspapers of major circulation in
Honduras […], once in each.”
199. As ordered in previous cases,230 the State shall make a one-time publication, in the
Official Gazette and in another major nationwide circulation newspaper, of paragraphs 1 to
8; 17 to 35; 45 to 155; and 189 to 195 of this Judgment, footnotes excluded, and the
operative section of this Judgment. Such publication shall be made within six months from
notice of this Judgment.
2) Public acknowledgment of international responsibility
200. The Commission requested that the Court order the State “[to hold] a ceremony of
public acknowledgement of its international responsibility for the damage caused and
violations committed, in a decent and significant manner as required by the goal of
reparations, in consultation with the victim’s next of kin and their representatives.”
201. Moreover, the representatives requested the Court to order the State “to carry out a
public acknowledgment of responsibility […] at which the State’s highest authority will
apologize not only to the next of kin of Mrs. Blanca Jeannette Kawas-Fernández but also to
the next of kin of all environmentalists who suffered human rights violations subsequently
to the killing of Kawas.” Moreover, they requested that such acknowledgment be made “at a
highly busy site in the city of Tela, [and be] covered [by] the main national media, [with]
the members of the Kawas family being given a key role, should they so desire.” In
addition, the representatives asked that “the State of Honduras prepar[e] a written
document acknowledging its international responsibility and [offering its] apologies to the
Kawas family […] Such document is to be a full page long and published in the printed
medium with the largest national circulation.”
202. The Court has already stated in this Judgment that the State’s acknowledgment of
responsibility constitutes a positive contribution to this proceeding and to the application of
the principles that inspire the American Convention (supra para. 32). However, in order for
it to be fully effective, it is the Court’s view that the State must carry out a public
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Cf. Case of Cantoral-Benavides v. Perú. Reparations and Costs. Judgment of December 3, 2001. Series C
No. 88, para. 79; Case of Ríos et al. Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations and Costs, supra nota 10, para.
405, and Case of Perozo et al. Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations and Costs, supra note 10, para. 415.
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