los Derechos Civiles (PRODECI);14 9) Corina Giacomello;15 10) the Latin American Consortium against Unsafe Abortion (CLACAI);16 11) Álvaro Paul and Felipe Soza;17 12) the Center for International Human Rights of the Pritzker School of Law at Northwestern University and the Clooney Foundation for Justice;18 13) the Asociación Española de Abogados Cristianos;19 14) National Advocates for Pregnant Women;20 15) the International Commission of Jurists;21 16) Herman Duarte;22 17) the “Feminist Criminal Doctrine” research group of the Law School at the Universidad de Buenos Aires;23 18) the Latin American Network of Catholics for the Right to Decide;24 19) XUMEK, association for the promotion and protection of human rights;25 20) the Centro de Bioética, Persona y Familia;26 21) Centro de Vida civil association and other The brief was signed by Miguel Jorge Haslop and Lucas Ezequiel Bilyk. It contained considerations on the legal reporting obligation and professional confidentiality. 14 The brief was signed by Corina Giacomello. It contained considerations on the problem faced by children and adolescents whose parents are imprisoned, as well as on the incorporation of the best interests of the child and the guarantee of the right to become mothers of women who so wish. 15 The brief was signed by Susana Chávez Alvarado, Luciana Brito, Gladys Via Huerta, Ma. Eugenia Romero, Maria Isabel Cordero, Teresa Lanza, Rebeca Ramos Duarte, María Mercedes González, Ana Labandera, Julia Carmen Espinoza Bernal, Javiera Canales Aguilera, and Sandra Castañeda Martínez. It contained considerations on the alleged incompatibility of the criminalization of abortion with El Salvador’s human rights obligations. 16 The brief was signed by Álvaro Paúl and Felipe Soza. It contained considerations on the fourth instance formula and its application to the instant case. 17 The brief was signed by Thomas F. Geraghty, Juliet Sorensen, Alexandra Tarzikhan, Meredith Heim, Stephen Townley, and Susan Wnukowska-Mtonga. It contained considerations on criminal proceedings conducted against two Salvadoran women that were similar to the proceedings against Manuela. 18 The brief was signed by Polonia Castellano Flórez. It contained considerations clarifying that this case dealt with a case of homicide rather than abortion, and also concerning the report filed by the medical staff and the proceedings conducted against Manuela. 19 The brief was signed by Paola Bergallo, Andrea Carlise, Rebecca J. Cook, Joanne Csete, Laurel E. Fletcher, Caitlin Gerdts, Betsy Hartmann, Anne Hendrixson, Deena R. Hurwitz, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, Bert Lockwood, Marta Machado, Benjamin Mason Meier, Michelle Oberman, Francisca Pou-Giménez, Cesare P.R. Romano, Mindy Jane Roseman, Cynthia Soohoo, Jocelyn Virterna, and Alicia Ely Yamin. It contained considerations on the consequences of the criminalization of abortion. 20 The brief was signed by Livio Zilli. It contained considerations on the right to privacy in relation to personal health information. 21 The brief was signed by Herman Duarte. It contained considerations on the birth regulation policies in El Salvador. 22 The brief was signed by Maria Luisa Piqué and Julieta Di Corleto. It contained considerations on the application of the offense of in flagrante delicto to an obstetric event. 23 The brief was signed by Maria José Fontelas Rosado Nunes, Tania Carola Nava Burgoa, Lourdes Rocío Cabañas Giménez, María Teresa Bosio, Martha Flores, Lola Guerra, Paula Sánchez Mejorada, Lisette Genao Duran, Sandra Mazo Cardona, Griselda Mata, and Gladys Vía Huerta. It contained considerations on the obligation to respect, protect and ensure the rights of women, specifically their rights to a decent life, to be free of discrimination, and to health, liberty and due process. 24 The brief was signed by María de los Ángeles Vásquez, Sofía B. Langelotti, María Ailén Ferraris Michel and Lucas Lecour. It contained considerations on torture and ill-treatment, as well as on the application of a gender perspective in the prosecution of similar cases. 25 The brief was signed by María Inés Franck and Jorge Nicolás Lafferriere. It contained considerations on the delimitation of this case, abortion, and the inviolability of the right to life. 26 7