5 13. On June 12, 2009 the Commission and the State forwarded their briefs with final arguments. On June 16, 2009 the representatives forwarded their respective brief. 14. The Court received amicus curiae briefs from the following persons, institutions and organizations: International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Program (IRSHL Program) of the Law School of the University of Toronto and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL);9 TRIAL-Track Impunity Always and the World Organization against Torture;10 a group of grant holders of the Legal Research Institute of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (hereinafter the “UNAM”);11 a human rights group of the UNAM Postgraduate Department;12 Women’s Link Worldwide;13 the Women’s Network of Ciudad Juárez A.C.;14 the Global Justice and Human Rights Program of the Universidad de los Andes;15 the Human Rights Program and the Master’s Program in Human Rights of the Universidad Iberoamericana of Mexico;16 Human Rights Watch;17 Horvitz & Levy LLP;18 the International Commission of of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; David Ricardo Uribe González, adviser, Department Head of the International Human Rights Litigation Area of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Luis Manuel Jardón Piña, adviser, Head of the Litigation Department of the Legal Services Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Carlos Giménez Zamudio, adviser, Head of the Domestic Policy, Press and Human Rights Area of the Mexican Embassy in Chile. 9 Brief presented by Simona Cusack, Rebecca J. Cook, Viviana Krsticevic and Vanessa Coria on December 4, 2008. 10 Brief presented by Eric Sottas and Philip Grant on April 16, 2009. On April 28, 2009, the Consejo General of the Abogacía Española and the Fundación del Consejo General of the Abogacía General adhered to the brief. 11 Brief presented by Miguel Ángel Antemate Mendoza, Selene Cruz Alcalá, Rafael Caballero Hernández, Carlos Alejandro Martiarena Leonar and Alma Elena Rueda Rodríguez on April 23, 2009. 12 Brief presented by Raymundo Gil Rendón and several of his students on April 24, 2007. 13 Brief presented by Viviana Waisman and Paloma Soria Montañez on April 27, 2008. 14 Brief also prepared by: Cáritas Diocesana of Ciudad Juárez, Pastoral Obrera, Programa Compañeros, Ciudadanos por una mejor Administración Pública, Casa Amiga Centro de Crisis, and by Clara Eugenia Rojas Blanco, Elizabeth Loera and Diana Itzel Gonzáles; and presented by Imelda Marrufo Nava on May 15, 2009. 15 Brief presented by César A. Rodríguez Garavito on June 1, 2009. 16 Brief presented by José Antonio Ibáñez Aguirre on July 10, 2009. 17 Brief presented by Clive Baldwin on June 8, 2009. 18 Brief supported by: Amnesty International, Thomas Antkowiak, Tamar Birckhead, Mary Boyce, Break the Circle, Arturo Carrillo, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, the Center for Justice and Accountability, the Human Rights Center of the Universidad Diego Portales, Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic, Cornell Law School International Human Rights Clinic, Bridget J. Crawford, the Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic of the University of Cincinnati, Margaret Drew, Martin Geer, the Human Rights and Genocide Clinic, Benjamín N. Cardozo School of Law, Human Rights Advocates, Deena Hurwitz, the Immigration Clinic at the University of Maryland School of Law, the Immigration Justice Clinic, IMPACT Personal Safety, the International Human Rights Clinic at Willamette University College of Law, the International Mental Disability Law Reform Project of New York Law School, the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic at Georgetown Law School, Latinojustice PRLDEF, the Legal Services Clinic at Western New England College School of Law, the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School, Bert B. Lockwood, the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School, Beth Lyon, Thomas M. McDonnell, the National Association of Women Lawyers, the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, the National Organization for Women, Noah Novogrodsky, Jamie O´Connell, Sarah Paoletti, Jo M. Pasqualucci, Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Darren Rosenblum, Susan Deller Ross, Seton Hall University School of Law Center for Social Justice, Gwynne Skinner, Kathleen Staudt, Jeffrey Stempel, Maureen A. Sweeney, Jonathan Todres, the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, the U.S. Human Rights Network, Penny M. Venetis, Deborah Weissman, Richard J. Wilson, the Women’s Law Project, the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, and the World Organization for Human Rights USA. It was presented by David S. Ettinger and Mary-Christine Sungaila on July 17, 2009.