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psychological and/or psychiatric treatment, the particular circumstances and needs of the victim
must be considered, so that she is provide with family and individual treatment, as agreed with her
and following an individual evaluation. In this regard, and based on I.V.’s condition, an evaluation
should be made of whether to include the members of her family in the treatment. I.V. has six month
from notification of this judgment to advise the State of her intention to receive psychological and/or
psychiatric treatment, and the State shall have two months from the date it receives this request to
provide the psychological and/or psychiatric treatment requested.
C.
Satisfaction
333. The representative asked the Court to order the State to publish the judgment in one of the
two La Paz newspapers with the most widespread circulation throughout out the country (“La Razón”
and “Página Siete”); in the Government’s official newspaper (“Cambio”), and in the Official Gazette.
In addition, the representative requested that the State organize an act to offer a public apology to
I.V. for the violations suffered in relation to non-consensual sterilization and the denial of justice. In
this regard, the representative asked that the apology should be made by a senior State official, and
that the act be organized and carried out in coordination with I.V. During the public hearing, the
Commission asked the Court to include measures of satisfaction among the reparations in this case,
and the State did not present any specific arguments on this point.
C.1
Publications
334. The Court finds, as it has in other cases,405 that the State should publish, within six months of
notification of this judgment: (a) the official summary of the judgment prepared by the Court, once,
in the Official Gazette in an appropriate and legible font size; (b) the official summary of the judgment
prepared by the Court, once, in a newspaper with widespread national circulation in an appropriate
and legible font size, and (c) the judgment in its entirety, available for one year, on an official website.
335. The State must inform this Court immediately after making each of the publications ordered,
regardless of the one-year time frame for the presentation of its first report established in the
fifteenth operative paragraph of the judgment.
C.2
Act to acknowledge responsibility
336. As it has previously,406 the Court finds it necessary, in order to repair the harm caused to the
victim and to avoid a repetition of facts such as those of this case, to establish that the State must
organize a public act to acknowledge international responsibility for the facts of this case. During the
act, reference must be made to the human rights violations declared in this judgment. Also, the
public act must be held in the presence of senior State officials and the victim. The State must reach
agreement with I.V. or her representative regarding the way in which the public act to acknowledge
responsibility is implemented, as well as all the necessary details, such as the place and date. The
State has one year to comply with this reparation as of notification of this judgment.
D.
Guarantees of non-repetition
337. The Commission asked the Court to order the State to take all necessary steps to avoid the
repetition of similar facts and, in particular, to review policies and practices applied in all hospitals to
Cf. Case of Cantoral Benavides v. Peru. Reparations and costs, supra, para. 79, and Case of Herrera Espinoza et al. v.
Ecuador, supra, para. 227.
405
Cf. Case of Cantoral Benavides v. Peru. Reparations and costs, supra, para. 81, and Case of Tenorio Roca et al. v. Peru,
supra, para. 293.
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