73 supporting the victims or next of kin who have requested help in case of violations of human rights, both individual and collective, in the process of systematically following up on complaints resulting from said human rights violations;”178 66.63. that the next of kin of the victims took steps to search for those victims and have participated in domestic proceedings pertaining to the facts of this case, steps and proceedings that involved expenses. COFAVIC covered the costs of these efforts;179 66.64. the victims and some of their next of kin have been represented before the Commission and the Court by members of COFAVIC, which has incurred expenses domestically and before the bodies of the inter-American system, during domestic proceedings and the instant proceeding. CEJIL and Human Rights Watch have also participated as representatives of the victims and of the next of kin in proceedings before the Commission and the Court, and the former incurred expenses as a consequence thereof.180 178 Cf. copy of the April 24, 1989 legal document establishing the non-profit civil association Asociación Civil Comité de Familiares de las Víctimas de los Sucesos de Febrero-Marzo, certified on April 16, 1991 by the Deputy Office of the Second Public Records Circuit of Libertador Municipality of the Federal District, Caracas, Venezuela. 179 Cf. three evidence files in El Caracazo Case, under the title “appendices with evidence submitted by the representatives of the victims and their next of kin together with the brief on Reparations,” at the Secretariat of the Court, and evidence filed in El Caracazo Case, under the title “Documentation backing the alleged expenses filed by the representatives of the victims and their next of kin, August 13, 2002 brief,” at the Secretariat of the Court. 180 Cf. copy of the April 24, 1989 legal document establishing the non-profit civil association Asociación Civil Comité de Familiares de las Víctimas de los Sucesos de Febrero-Marzo, certified on April 16, 1991 by the Deputy Office of the Second Public Records Circuit of Libertador Municipality of the Federal District, Caracas, Venezuela; special power of attorney granted on April 14, 1999 by Ivonne Josefina Pirela Chacón in favor of Lilliana Ortega Mendoza before the First Notary Public of San Cristóbal, State of Táchira, Venezuela; special power of attorney granted on April 16, 1999 by Ana Jacinta Garrido Cortez in favor of Lilliana Ortega Mendoza before the Twenty-Ninth Notary Public of Libertador Municipality of the Federal District, Caracas, Venezuela; special power of attorney granted on March 18, 1999 by Noraima Sosa Ríos, Olga María Álvarez de Tesara, María Teresa Rivas de Ávila, Nelly Pastora Freitez, Juan Carlos Suárez Sánchez, Rafael José Castellanos Canelón, Mery Marina Castillo, Braulio Ramón Guía Laya, Juliana Quintana and Toribia Ojeda in favor of Lilliana Ortega Mendoza before the Twenty-Ninth Notary Public of Libertador Municipality of the Federal District, Caracas, Venezuela; special power of attorney granted on June 26, 1999 by María Casilda Valero Suárez in favor of Lilliana Ortega Mendoza before the Twenty-Ninth Notary Public of Libertador Municipality of the Federal District, Caracas, Venezuela; special power of attorney granted on June 26, 1999 by María Casilda Valero Suárez in favor of Lilliana Ortega Mendoza, Héctor Faúndez Ledesma, José Miguel Vivanco, Viviana Krsticevic and María Claudia Pulido before the Twenty-Ninth Notary Public of Libertador Municipality of the Federal District, Caracas, Venezuela; special power of attorney granted on March 5, 1999 by María Neria Guillén Pereira in favor of Lilliana Ortega Mendoza before the Twenty-Ninth Notary Public of Libertador Municipality of the Federal District, Caracas, Venezuela; special power of attorney granted on February 25, 1999 by Emileidys del Carmen Ferrán Cedeño, Rosa Julia Aldana Bastidas, Petra Bello, Judith Borjas Romero, Catalina Ramos de Guevara, Carmen Gregoria Daza, Osquedio Rafael Hernández Rodríguez, María Encarnación Salazar Campos, Rosa Margarita Hernández de Mederos, Miguelina del Jesús La Rosa, Fredez Binda García Hernández, María Josefina Herrera Hurtado, Iris del Valle Medina Cova, Hilda Rosa Páez, Aura Rosa Liscano Betancourt, Maritza Isabel Romero Castro, Francisco Moncada, Dilia Ramos, Marisol Montenegro Cordero, Deisy Crespo and Haydée Mavilu Blanco García in favor of Lilliana Ortega Mendoza before the Twenty-Ninth Notary Public of Libertador Municipality of the Federal District, Caracas, Venezuela; special power of attorney granted on May 28, 1999 by Lilliana Ortega Mendoza, as Executive Director of COFAVIC and proxy for the next of kin of the victims, in favor of Héctor Faúndez Ledesma, José Miguel Vivanco, Viviana Krsticevic and María Claudia Pulido before the Twenty-Ninth Notary Public of Libertador Municipality of the Federal District, Caracas, Venezuela; special power of attorney granted on April 5, 2001 by Nelly Elena Marcano, Ligia Rosa Zapara Reverón, Ybelice Altagracia Ramírez, Fernando Enrique Pérez