2 was reiterated –as before, during, and after. 5. It is not my intention to state in this Opinion the list of the works seeking to consolidate that purpose, in the different realms in which they have been present: worldwide and regional. I focus on the American Convention on Human Rights. As of 1969 a hemispheric corpus juris on human rights has been gradually built, and today it includes several protocols and treaties, one of which is the mentioned Convention of Belém do Pará, a type of “specific Magna Carta” on woman’s rights – or better yet: women’s—that constitutes a separate and substantial chapter in the complete corpus juris that make up the statute of the contemporary human being, based on the double foundation offered by the worldwide human right’s order and the continental version in the order of the same specialty. 6. Up to today, the Inter-American Court had not received consultations or litigations whose main actor – or, at least one of its main actors, specifically--, was a woman. Obviously, the Court has dealt with matters in which the subject of equality of gender has been projected (such as Advisory Opinion OC-4/84, “Proposed Amendments of the Naturalization Provisions of the Constitution of Costa Rica,” decided upon on January 19, 1984), and it has had before it cases regarding women as victims of violations to human rights or people in risk, whose situation required provisional measures of a precautionary and protective nature. However, in these cases the violation or risk did not, necessarily, put in evidence considerations linked directly and immediately with the victim’s female condition. 7. It does not correspond to the Court –which lacks the power to attract and reject adjudicatory matters, nor may it formally suggest subjects for consultation— to request the forwarding of petitions or requests for opinions on specific matters, regardless of the greater or lesser relevance they may have regarding the formulation of Inter-American jurisprudence. The selection of the cases is incumbent to only those who have been invested of procedural legal standing to propose them to the consideration of the Court, subject to their own ordinances and endowed with autonomy –which the Court may not question—to present its arguments, thus initiating the jurisdictional actions. That is the reason why the Court has not dealt with certain matters regarding women’s rights, even when it has done so regarding other groups of the population, which are also relevant and vulnerable, of very different characteristics: minors, members of indigenous communities, migrant workers, detainees, foster children, etcetera. 8. In the case that corresponds to the Judgment with which I accompany this Opinion the applicability of the Convention of Belém do Pará has been presented for the first time, since there is no previous ruling of the Court in this sense. There were some, however, in other cases regarding the applicability and application of the instruments of the American corpus juris of human rights different to the ACHR: Protocol of San Salvador, Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture, and Inter-American Convention on the Forced Disappearance of Persons. Thus, this road had been sufficiently traveled; however, the first was still awaiting its presentation, analysis, and solution. It had been, up to today, an “unexplored subject”, without definition. This is no longer true, in virtue of the judgment issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the Case of Castro Castro. 9. The matter suggests at least two considerations. First of all, it is clear –in the light of the developments of national and international Law on human rights, but especially in the shade of a tenacious and wounding reality—that there is a need to affirm the specific protection required by women’s rights and freedoms, statement which constitutes an essential piece for the comprehensive construction of the system for the protection of human rights and its effective validity. To plead in this direction means advancing in an established—although always full of