8 37. The Commission, the representatives, and the State presented the expert opinions authenticated or given before a notary public, in response to that stated by the Court in its Ruling of November 24, 2005 (supra para. 20). Said expert opinions are summarized below. 1. Expert witness proposed by the Inter-American Commission a) Leo Valladares Lanza, Commissioner of Honduras former National Human Rights He was the National Human Rights Commissioner from October 1992 up to March 5, 2002. On January 21, 2002 he published the “Special Report on the Violent Deaths of Boys, Girls, and Teenagers in Honduras,” where he summarizes the findings and presents a series of conclusions and recommendations to the State, which he enclosed in his expert opinion. The State has adopted measures seeking to improve the situation with children, but there are still an elevated number of young deaths and the almost complete ineffectiveness in their investigations persists, as well as the lack of sanctions upon those responsible. Police officers accused of abusing children’s’ human rights have been brought before the courts, but the number is low in comparison with the number of cases denounced. The State has increased repressive measures against youngsters. On one hand, there is no criminal policy to avoid the abuse against youngsters, and on the other hand, the prevention and protection measures are weak. The Honduran Institute for Children and the Family (hereinafter “IHNFA”) is characterized by its bureaucracy, which makes it inefficient. Similarly, the Code for Children and Teenagers, despite being in force for a decade, has not had an effective application and the judges have not received a proper formation. Honduras is the country with the highest poverty levels in the hemisphere, but this does not justify that the main problems be left unattended, and one of them is the situation of boys, girls, and teenagers. From his Report as National Human Rights Commissioner and of the observations of the current situation, the expert witness concludes that there is a context of violence with regard to boys, girls, and teenagers in Honduras, that impunity persists, and that inmates are not offered an adequate treatment. 2. Expert witnesses proposed by the representatives a) Reina Auxiliadora Rivera Joya, current executive director of the non-governmental organization, Center for the Investigation and Promotion of Human Rights, former Criminal Judge and former assistant district attorney of the Human Rights Public Prosecutors’ Office. During the decades of the eighties and nineties and the beginning of the twenty-first century, the State has gone from worrying about national security and the regional armed conflict to a fear for public safety, especially due to the increase of organized crime and street violence. Given the increase in the number of homicides as of the year 1992, police bodies started giving common delinquency a priority as well as trying to comply with their