Colombia;37 32) Amnesty International;38 33) the Iniciativa Colectiva 1600s;39 34) Latinx
Bioethics;40 35) Centro de Estudios Legales and Sociales (CELS);41 36) Ricardo Bach de
Chazal;42 37) Max Silva Abbott;43 38) Baker & McKenzie SAS and others;44 39) the Centro de
Apoyo y Protección de los Derechos Humanos SURKUNA;45 40) the Human Rights Observatory
and the Legal Clinic at the Universidad de Valladolid;46 41) Alda Facio Montejo;47 42) the
International Network for Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR Net);48 43) the World
Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the Latin America Litigators’ Group against
Torture;49 44) the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF);50 45) the Gender, Law and Society
Research Group and the Human Rights Group at the Universidad Externado de Colombia;51
The brief was signed by Milla Patricia Romero Soto, María del Rosario Guerra, Esperanza Andrade Serrano,
Paola Holguín, John Milton Rodríguez, Carlos Felipe Mejía, Santiago Valencia, Jonatan Tamayo Pérez, German Alcides
Blanco Álvarez, Edgar Enrique Palacio Mizrahi, Erwin Arias Betancour, Edwin Ballesteros, Margarita María Restrepo,
Juan Espinal, Álvaro Hernán Prada, and José Jaime Uscátegui. It contained considerations on the petitioners’ alleged
disinformation campaign and the cruelty of infanticide.
37
The brief was signed by Erika Guevara Rosas, and Juan E. Méndez. It contained considerations on the iura
novit curiae principle and on the alleged obligation to decriminalize abortion.
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39
The brief was signed by Tania Sordo Ruz. It contained considerations on gender stereotyping.
The brief was signed by Joanne C. Suarez, Natalia Acevedo Guerrero, Donna Castelblanco and Katrina Muñoz.
It contained considerations on bioethical principles and the provision of reproductive health services.
40
The brief was signed by Paula Litvachky, Lucía de la Vega, Vanina Escales, Macarena Fernández Hofmann,
Andrés López Cabello, Diego Morales, and Erika Schmidhuber Peña. It contained considerations on discrimination,
the guarantee of the confidentiality of medical attention, and the disproportionate impact on women and their family
when women are deprived of liberty.
41
The brief was signed by Ricardo Bach de Chazal. It contained considerations on the protection of the right to
life in the inter-American system and in El Salvador, and on the illegitimacy of the claims of the representatives and
the Commission in this case.
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43
The brief was signed by Max Silva Abbott. It contained considerations on the personhood of every human
being and the right to life.
The brief was signed by Carlos Tiffer Sotomayor and Jorge Valencia Arango. It contained considerations on in
flagrante delicto.
44
The brief was signed by Ana Cristina Vega. It contained considerations on international human rights standards
in relation to the rule of the right to the professional confidentiality of health professionals in relation to criminal
prosecutions.
45
The brief was signed by Teresa del Campo Rodríguez, Carlos Fadrique Aceves, Belén García Gómez, Yaiza
Rodríguez Sánchez, Enrique Serrano Sánchez-Cendal, Alejandro de Pablo Serrano, Patricia Tapia Ballesteros, Enrique
Martínez Pérez, Ángeles Solanes Corella, and Javier García Medina. It contained considerations on the need for the
Court to clarify the scope of medical professional confidentiality, confidentiality and privacy in health care and their
implications in relation to the right to privacy and to sexual and reproductive health care.
46
The brief was signed by Alda Facio Montejo. It contained considerations on the protection of confidential
medical information in light of international human rights law, as well as the impact of laws that criminalize access
to reproductive health services by the disclosure of information protected by medical professional confidentiality.
47
The brief was signed by Anya Victoria Delgado, Ishita Dutta, Mandivavarira Mudarikwa, Nasreen Solomons,
Valentine Sébile and Fernando Ribeiro Delgado. It contained considerations on the criminalization of obstetric
emergencies in El Salvador and on the intersectional discrimination allegedly faced by Manuela and other women in
similar situations.
48
The brief was signed by Helena Sola Martín Melissa Zamora Vieyra. It contained considerations on the right
to personal integrity and, in particular, the right not to be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment from a gender perspective.
49
The brief was signed by Katya Salazar Luzula and Leonor Arteaga Rubio. It contained considerations on judicial
guarantees, including the right to the presumption of innocence and the right to defense.
50
The brief was signed by María Daniela Díaz Villamil, Jessika Mariana Barragán, Nicole Sofía Méndez, Laura
Marcela Angarita Pedraza, Natalia Beltrán Orjuela, and Stephanie López Posso. It contained considerations on the
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