preliminary objections and opposed the alleged violations and the reparation measures proposed by the Commission and the representatives. 8. Public Hearing. – By order of February 17, 20228 the President summoned the State, the representatives and the Inter-American Commission to a public hearing to receive their oral arguments and final observations on the preliminary objections and possible merits, reparations and costs, as well as to receive the statements of the alleged victim, a witness and an expert proposed by the representatives and of an expert offered by the Inter-American Commission. The virtual public hearing was held on March 29 and 30, 2022, during the Court’s 147th Regular Session, via a videoconferencing platform.9 9. Amici Curiae. – The Court received seven amicus curiae briefs presented by: 1) the Human Rights Community, Catholics for the Right to Decide/Bolivia, the Women's Coordinator, the Construir Foundation and the Latin American and Caribbean Committee for Defense of Women's Rights;10 2) the legal firm Víctor Mosquera Marín Abogados;11 3) the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Clinic and Reproductive Rights Center at Yale Law School;12 4) the Illustrious and National Bar Association of Mexico – INCAM, through its International Human Rights Observatory;13 5) the Legal Gender Observatory of the Faculty of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico;14 6) the Seedbed for Litigation before International Systems for the Protection of Human Rights (SELIDH) in association with the Center for Attention to Gender and Sexual Diversity (CAG) of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the University of Antioquía,15 and 7) The Global Women's 8 Cf. Case of Angulo Losada v. Bolivia. Call to hearing. Order of the President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of February 17, 2022. Available in Spanish at: https://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/asuntos/angulo_losada_17_02_22.pdf. Appearing at this hearing were: (a) for the Inter-American Commission: Joel Hernández Garcia, Commissioner; Marisol Blanchard, then Deputy Executive Secretary; Jorge Meza Flores, then advisor and current Deputy Executive Secretary, and Analía Banfi Vique, advisor; (b) for the representatives: Rosa Celorio, lawyer at the George Washington University Law Center; Bárbara Jiménez-Santiago, lawyer at Equality Now; Shelby Quast, lawyer at Robertson, Quast & Associates, LLC; Carmen Arispe, lawyer at the Una Brisa de Esperanza Center; Parker Palmer, CFO of the Breeze of Hope Foundation; Elizabeth Solander, lawyer at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP; Diego Durán de la Vega, lawyer at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP; Alyssa Johnson, attorney at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, and Shayda Vance, lawyer at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, and (c) for the State of Bolivia: Wilfredo Franz David Chávez Serrano, lawyer for the Plurinational State of Bolivia; Patricia Guzmán Meneses, Deputy Attorney General for Defense and Legal Representation for the State; Jhanneth del Rosio Bustillos Bustillos, Director General for Protection of Human Rights and the Environment, and Cynthia Fernández Torrez, Head of the Cases Unit in the Admissibility Stage. 9 The brief, signed by Mónica Bayá Camargo, Tania Nava Burgoa, Patricia Brañez, Mónica Novillo and Susana Saavedra, refers to: (i) the State's duty to judge with a gender perspective and its implications in practice; (ii) obstacles in the legal system related to gender bias; (iii) a duty to assess facts and evidence in cases of crimes of rape and statutory rape with a gender perspective; (iv) the existence of a structural pattern of revictimization, and (v) reparation measures. 10 The brief, signed by Víctor Mosquera Marín, refers to the duty of the Inter-American Court to focus the purpose of the litigation exclusively on determining the international responsibility of the State of Bolivia. 11 12 The brief, signed by Catalina Martínez Coral, Carmen Cecilia Martínez, Edward Pérez, Milagro Valverde Jiménez, James J. Silk and Ryan Thoreson, refers to: (i) the obligations of States to combat sexual violence against children; (ii) the obligations of States to adopt the necessary measures so that girls and adolescents can develop their ability to exercise their autonomy, and (iii) structural reform measures in Bolivia. 13 The brief, signed by Arturo Pueblita Fernández, Isabel Davara F. De Marcos, Valentina Fix Martínez, Julio J. Copo Terrés, Esmeralda del Carmen Chávez Olvera, Daniela Shoshana Memun Urinowsky, Noemí García José, Anel Rodríguez Hernández, Víctor Oswaldo Ramírez Ortiz, Cassandra Michelle Salazar Navarro and Jose Antonio Sosa Reyna, refers to: (i) sexual violence against girls and adolescents from the point of view of health and education, the enforceability of Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights (DESCA), and the obligations that States have regarding such issues, and (ii) the importance and need for comprehensive sexual education that is preventive in nature. 14 The brief, signed by Andrea Arabella Montes de Oca, Samantha Rodríguez Santillán, Erick Octavio Moreno Zúñiga, Jorge Uriel Ortiz Valois and Karina Contreras Valdez, refers to: (i) the duty of States to guarantee and protect the appropriate development of childhood and adolescence, and act to prevent sexual abuse of minors, and (ii) measures related to guarantees of non-repetition. The brief, signed by Alejandro Gómez Restrepo, María Camila Vega Salazar, Nathalia Rodríguez Cabrera and Mónica Liliana Torres Pidiache, refers to (i) the inter-American standards regarding violence against women and girls; (ii) the intersectionality of gender and age that occurred in the case; (iii) sexual violence as torture, and (iv) the alleged breach of 15 6