32 115. The State acknowledged “the problem it faces owing to the situation of violence against women in Ciudad Juárez, above all, the murders that have been recorded since the beginning of the 1990s in the last century.” 116. Various national and international human rights monitoring mechanisms have been following the situation in Ciudad Juárez and have called the international community’s attention to it. In 1998, the Mexican National Human Rights Commission (hereinafter the “CNDH” for its name in Spanish) examined 24 cases of murders of women and concluded that the human rights of the victims and their next of kin had been violated during the investigations.72 Subsequently, the following mechanisms, inter alia, have made observations in this regard: the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (hereinafter the “U.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions”) in 1999;73 the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers (hereinafter the “U.N. Special Rapporteur on judicial independence”) in 2002;74 the Inter-American Commission and its Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women (hereinafter the “IACHR Rapporteur”) in 2003;75 the Commission of International Experts of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in 2003;76 the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (hereinafter “CEDAW”) in 2005,77 and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women (hereinafter the “U.N. Special Rapporteur on violence against women”) in 2005.78 It should be noted that the European Parliament issued a resolution in this regard in 2007.79 In addition, reports have been prepared by national and international non-governmental human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International,80 the Observatorio Ciudadano para Monitorear la Impartición de Justicia en los casos de Feminicidio en Ciudad Juárez y Chihuahua [Citizens’ Observatory to Monitor the Delivery of Justice in the cases of Femicides in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua]81 (hereinafter the “Observatorio Ciudadano”) and the Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos 72 Cf. CNDH, Recomendación 44/1998 issued on May 15, 1998 (case file of attachments to the application, volume VII, attachment 4, folios 2113 to 2164). 73 Cf. United Nations, Report of the mission of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, E/CN.4/2000/3, Add.3, November 25,1999 (case file of attachments to the application, volume VII, attachment 3d, folios 2025 to 2058). 74 Cf. United Nations, Report of the mission of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, E/CN.4/2002/72/Add.1, January 24, 2002 (case file of attachments to the application, volume VII, attachment 3e, folios 2060 to 2111). 75 Cf. IACHR, The Situation of the Rights of Women in Ciudad Juárez, supra note 64, folios 1732 to 1779. 76 Cf. United Nations, Report of the Committee of International Experts of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, on the mission to Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, November 2003 (case file of attachments to the application, volume VII, attachment 3a, folios 1861 to 1913). 77 Cf. Report on Mexico produced by CEDAW, supra note 64, folio 1921. 78 Cf. Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, supra note 64, folios 2011 to 2021. 79 Cf. European Parliament resolution on the murder of women (femicide) in Mexico and in Central America and the role of the European Union in fighting the phenomenon, adopted on October 11, 2007, 2007/2025/(INI) (case file of attachments to the pleadings and motions brief, volume XIII, attachment 3.1, folios 4718 to 4727). 80 81 Cf. Amnesty International, Intolerable killings, supra note 64, folios 2256 to 2305. Cf. Observatorio Ciudadano para Monitorear la Impartición de Justicia en los casos de Feminicidio en Ciudad Juárez y Chihuahua, Informe Final. Evaluación y Monitoreo sobre el trabajo de la Fiscalía Especial para la Atención de Delitos Relacionados con los Homicidios de Mujeres en el Municipio de Juárez, Chihuahua, de la Procuraduría General de la República, November 2006 (case file of attachments to the pleadings and motions brief, volume XX, attachment 11.2, folios 6629 to 6759).