4 the instant case, the concern herein expressed allows deeply reflecting on the general guidelines set for supporting and informing the victims (beyond those ordered in the criminal proceedings) which are currently applied by the authorities in charge of investigating and punishing crimes in the States aspiring to fully comply with the duties set forth in Articles 8 and 25 of the American Convention. II. Measures to ensure higher education for Myriam Zapata-Escué 10. The Inter-American Court has ruled on the Request for Interpretation in paragraphs 26 to 29, with which I fully concurred. The balance struck in said paragraphs seeks a special purpose which I would like to discuss in my concurring vote. In the instant case, the decision delivered by the Inter-American Court in ordering the admission of Myriam Zapata-Escué into public university may come into conflict with the domestic provisions sustaining admission into university based on the candidates’ academic merits. So was contended by the State in its request for interpretation. These selection systems are based on egalitarian conceptions which are of value both in the light of domestic legislation and international law. Higher studies are part of an educational process which combines the paternalistic ethics of care and protection and the liberal ethics of individual effort and responsibility. In the case in point, the obligation of the State amounts to bearing the expenses of the university studies undertaken by Myriam Zapata-Escué at public university, if in due time she decides to study at university. Likewise, public funding is to be granted under the reinforced equality conditions enshrined by present-day international law: Myriam Zapata-Escué must have access to public university in accordance with the existing selection processes, but the State must guarantee that she may fully avail herself of the special protection measures of ethnical, social, and economic diversity that university systems (and particularly the Colombian one) must contemplate in their selection processes. In stating this, the Court seeks to strike a balance between the special support given to the life project of Myriam Zapata-Escué through the reparation measures originally ordered in the Judgment and the necessary ethics sustaining individual effort and responsibility which are to be expected from youngsters aspiring to become social leaders, as is the case of Myriam Zapata-Escué. Diego Eduardo López-Medina Judge ad hoc Pablo Saavedra-Alessandri Secretary