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led to the discovery of 7 women and 2 children who had gone missing or
disappeared.”483
505. The Tribunal assesses positively the creation of Operation Alba and the Alba
Protocol as a way of paying increased attention to the disappearance of women in
Ciudad Juárez. Nevertheless, it observes that these search programs are only put in
practice when a “high-risk” disappearance occurs, a criterion that, according to
information from several sources, is only met in the case of reports with “specific
characteristics”;484 namely, that “it is certain that [the women] had no reason to
abandon their home”, a young girl has disappeared,485 “the young woman [had] a
stable routine,”486 and that the report had “characteristics associated with the ‘serial’
killings.”487
506. The Court considers that the Alba Protocol, or any analogous mechanism in
Chihuahua, should include the following parameters: (i) implement searches ex officio
and without any delay in cases of disappearance as a measure to protect the life,
personal liberty and personal integrity of the disappeared person; (ii) coordinate the
efforts of the different security agencies to find the person; (iii) eliminate any factual
or legal obstacle that reduces the effectiveness of the search or that prevents it from
starting, such as requiring preliminary inquiries or procedures; (iv) allocate the human,
financial, logistic, scientific or any other type of resource required for the search to be
successful; (v) crosscheck the missing person report with the database of missing
persons mentioned in section 4.2.4 infra, and (vi) give priority to searching areas
where reason dictates that it is most probable to find the disappeared person, without
arbitrarily disregarding other possibilities or areas. All of the above must be even more
urgent and rigorous when a girl has disappeared. In this regard, an annual report must
be presented for three years.
507. The Ciudad Juárez Commission advised that, in March 2005, it set up the web
page: www.mujeresdesaparecidascdjuarez.gob.mx with information on some of the
young women and girls who had disappeared in Ciudad Juárez.488 The Court notes that
the page has not been updated since December 2006.
508. In this regard, and bearing in mind that an electronic network where anyone
can provide information on a disappeared woman or girl child could be useful to trace
that individual, the Tribunal orders, as it has on other occasions,489 the creation of a
web page with the necessary personal information on all the women and girls who
have disappeared in Chihuahua since 1993 and who are still missing. This web page
must allow anyone to communicate with the authorities by any means, including
anonymously, in order to provide relevant information on the whereabouts of the
disappeared women or girls or, if applicable, of their remains. The information on the
web page must be updated constantly.
483
Cf. Comisión para Prevenir y Erradicar la Violencia contra las Mujeres en Ciudad Juárez, Tercer
informe de gestión, supra note 101, folio 9054.
484
Cf. Office of the Attorney General for the state of Chihuahua, official letter addressed to the Director
of Human Rights of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, February 17, 2003 (case file of attachments to the answer
to the application, volume XLII, attachment 75, folio 15381).
485
Cf. Report on Mexico produced by CEDAW, supra note 71, folio 1929.
486
Cf. CNDH, Informe Especial, supra note 66, folio 2174, and Amnesty International, Intolerable
killings, supra note 64, folio 2274.
487
Cf. IACHR, The Situation of the Rights of Women in Ciudad Juárez, supra note 64, folio 1746.
488
Cf. Comisión para Prevenir y Erradicar la Violencia contra las Mujeres en Ciudad Juárez, Tercer
informe de gestión, supra note 101, folio 9200.
489
Cf. Case of the Serrano Cruz Sisters v. El Salvador. supra nota 454, para. 190.
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