of Catholics for Choice and Sara Morello, Executive Vice President of that organization; (15)
Carlos Polo Samaniego, Director of the Latin American Office of the Population Research
Institute; (16) Reynaldo Bustamante Alarcón, President of the Instituto Solidaridad y
Derechos Humanos; (17) Hernán Collado Martínez; (18) Carmen Muñoz Quesada, Rita
Maxera Herrera, Cristian Gómez, Seidy Salas and Ivania Solano; 14 (19) Enrique Pedro Haba,
Professor at the Universidad de Costa Rica; (20) Organización de Litigio Estratégico de
Derechos Humanos (Litiga OLE); 15 (21) Susie Talbot, Lawyer of the Center for the Legal
Protection of Human Rights (INTERIGHTS) and Helen Duffy, Head Counsel of INTERIGHTS;
(22) Andrea Acosta Gamboa; (23) Andrea Parra, Natalia Acevedo Guerrero, Matías González
Gil and Sebastián Rodríguez Alarcón; 16 (24) Leah Hoctor, Legal Adviser of the International
Commission of Jurists; (25) Margarita Salas Guzmán, President, and Larissa Arroyo
Navarrete, Lawyer, of the Colectiva por el Derecho a Decidir; (26) Fabio Varela, Marcelo
Ernesto Ferreyra, Rosa Posa, Bruna Andrade Irineu and Mario Pecheny; 17 (27) María del
Pilar Vásquez Calva, Coordinator of Enlace Gubernamental Vida y Familia A.C., Mexico; (28)
Latin American Network for Assisted Reproduction and Ian Cooke, Emeritus Professor of the
University of Sheffield; (29) Priscilla Smith, Senior Fellow of the Program for the Study of
Reproductive Justice of the Information Society Project (ISP) of the University of Yale and
Genevieve E. Scott, Visiting Professor of the ISP; (30) Latin American Network for Assisted
Reproduction and Santiago Munné, President of Reprogenetics; (31) Centro de Estudios of
Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad (DEJUSTICIA); 18 (32) José Tomás Guevara Calderón; (33)
Carlos Santamaría Quesada, Head of the Molecular Diagnosis Division of the Clinical
Laboratory of the Hospital Nacional de Niños; (34) Cesare P.R. Romano, Law Professor and
Joseph W. Ford Fellow at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles; 19 (35) the Ombudsman’s Office; 20
14
Carmen Muñoz Quesada is a Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica. Rita Maxera Herrera and
Ivania Solano are both lawyers. Cristian Gómez is a member of the Costa Rican Demographic Association. Seidy
Salas is a member of the Colectiva por el Derecho a Decidir.
15
The brief was submitted by Graciela Rodríguez Manzo, Director General of Litiga OLE; Geraldina Gónzalez
de la Vega, Collaborator of Litiga OLE; Adriana Muro Polo, Lawyer at Litiga OLE; Marisol Aguilar Contreras, Lawyer
at Litiga OLE.
16
Andrea Parra, Director of the Action Program for Equality and Social Inclusion (PAIIS) of the Law Faculty
of the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, and Natalia Acevedo Guerrero, Matías González Gil and Sebastián
Rodríguez Alarcón, students attached to PAIIS.
17
Caio Fabio Varela, Human Rights Defender, Marcelo Ernesto Ferreyra, in representation of Heartland
Alliance, the Coalização de Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais, Transgêneros, Transexuais, Travesti e Intersexuais
(LGBTTTI) na América Latina e no Caribe and of the Campanha por uma Convencao Interamericana of Direitos
Sexuais e Direitos Reprodutivos, Rosa Posa, in representation of AKAHATA, Bruna Andrade Irineu and Mario
Pecheny.
18
The brief was submitted by Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Director of the Centro de Estudios de Derecho,
Justicia and Sociedad (DEJUSTICIA) and Diana Esther Guzmán, Paola Molano, Annika Dalén and Paula Rangel
Garzón, Researcher at DEJUSTICIA.
19
The brief was submitted by the Clinic in collaboration with 11 human rights and international law
academics and professionals who also signed the amicus curiae: Roger S. Clark, Law Professor, Rutgers School of
Law, Camden, New Jersey; Lindsey Raub Kantawee, Associate at Clifford Chance, Law firm; Yvonne Donders,
Professor of International Human Rights and Cultural Diversity and Executive Director of the Amsterdam Center for
International Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam; Ellen Hey, Professor of International Public
Law of the Faculty of Law of the Erasmus University Rotterdam; Jessica M. Almqvist, Lecturer on International
Public Law of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Faculty of Law; Freya Baetens, Assistant Professor of Public
International Law of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of the Faculty of Law of Leiden University;
Konstantinos D. Magliveras, Associate Professor of the Department of Mediterranean Studies of the University of
the Aegean, Unit of Rhodes; Belén Olmos Giupponi, Associate Professor of International Law of the Universidad Rey
Juan Carlos of Madrid; Miguel Ángel Ramiro Avilés, Professor of Legal Philosophy of the Universidad Carlos III of
Madrid, Director of the Master’s Program in Fundamental Rights and Co-Director of the Master’s Program in Human
Rights and Democratization of the Universidad Externado of Colombia; Margherita Salvadori, Associate Professor of
the Faculty of Law of the University of Turín, and Jaume Saura, Professor of International Law of the Universidad
de Barcelona and President of the Human Rights Institute of Catalonia.