46) Lawyers without Borders Canada; 52 47) the Human Rights Commission of Mexico City;53 48) the Centro por la Justicia, Democracia e Igualdad (CEJUDI);54 49) Mileidy Alvarado Arias, congresswoman of the Republic of Costa Rica;55 50) International Academy of Family Lawyers;56 51) the Human Rights Clinic at the Universidad de Santa Clara;57 52) Synergy – Initiatives for Human Rights and other organizations;58 53) the Iniciativa Americana por la Justicia (IAJ) and the Centro de Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos (PROMSEX);59 54) the Equipo Latinoamericano de Justicia y Género (ELA);60 55) the Comunidad de Derechos Humanos and other organizations;61 56) the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics; 62 57) Shirley Díaz Mejías, congresswoman of the Republic of Costa Rica,63 and 58) the Clinic on Litigation before International Systems for the Protection of Human Rights (SELIDH) of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the Universidad de Antioquia in association with the Bolívar en Falda feminist organization.64 absolute prohibition of abortion, as well as the different manifestations of gender stereotyping, especially with regard to the provision of health care services and the criminal proceedings in this case. The brief was signed by Lucas Valderas. It contained considerations on the numerous factors of vulnerability that coalesced intersectionally in Manuela’s life and how these led to a specific form of discrimination and inequality that resulted in the alleged denial of judicial guarantees and protection. 52 The brief was signed by Zamir Andrés Fajardo Morales. It contained considerations on the right of women to a life free of obstetric violence. 53 The brief was signed by María Paula Balam Aguilar and Andrea Guadalupe Tejero Gamboa. It contained considerations on State obligations regarding reproductive health care for women who suffer obstetric emergencies. 54 The brief was signed by Mileidy Alvarado Arias. It contained considerations on “the legal grounds that invalidate the petition filed” by the representatives, and on the “misleading handling by the petitioners of the information in the judicial case file that was the reason for this complaint against El Salvador.” 55 The brief was signed by Edwin Freedman. It contained considerations on the right to abortion and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, as well as on the corresponding laws in different jurisdictions. 56 57 The brief was signed by Francisco J. Rivera Juaristi and Britton Schwartz. It contained considerations on the right of women, particularly low-income women, to receive satisfactory reproductive and maternal health care without discrimination and their right to privacy in the doctor-patient relationship. The brief was signed by Mirta Moragas Mereles, Lucía Berro Pizzarossa, Fernando D’elio, Alba Onofrio, Oriana López Uribe, Marisa Viana, Lola Guerra, Ishita Dutta, Umyra Ahmad and Paula Sánchez Mejorada. It contained considerations on the role of gender stereotyping in the discrimination in this case. 58 The brief was signed by Federico Ariel Vaschetto and Gabriela Oporto Patroni. It contained considerations on sexual and reproductive rights, the inviolability of professional confidentiality, the negative effects of the existence of gender stereotypes, and the quality of health care services in obstetric emergencies. 59 The brief was signed by Natalia Gherardi. It contained considerations on the importance of a gender perspective in trials and the eradication of gender stereotypes. 60 The brief was signed by Mónica Bayá Camargo, Tania Nava Burgo, Jhonny López Gallardo, Mónica Novillo, Patricia Brañez, Teresa Alarcón, Lupe Pérez, and Rossy Michael Yucra Crespo. It contained considerations on the rights of women to a decent life, integrity and health, sexual and reproductive rights, judicial guarantees, judicial protection and personal liberty. 61 62 The brief was signed by Carlos Fuchtner. It contained considerations on medical care in cases of abortion. The brief was signed by Shirley Díaz Mejías. It contained considerations on “the theory behind the case presented by El Salvador, emphasizing its position on the rights and protection of the unborn child.” 63 The brief was signed by Valentina Ortiz Aguirre, Alejandro Gómez Restrepo, Mónica López Cárdenas, Doris Astrid Portilla, Lisseth Juliana Betancur Vásquez, Lizbeth Grisales Castro, Juan Pablo León Osorio, Andrea Camila Solarte, Alejandra Zapata López, Jorge Andrés Pinzón Cabezas, Manuel Darío Cardona Quiceno, Mariajosé Mejía García, Sara Arango Restrepo, Adrián Zarate Condori, Nathalia Rodríguez Cabrera, and Sara Méndez Niebles. It contained considerations on the need to examine the case from the perspective of structural and intersectional discrimination and from an eminently feminist point of view noting the limited sexual and reproductive rights that were violated in the case and making progress towards the emancipation of women with control of their bodies and their fertility. 64 10