rapes. To this end, I tried to highlight the role of the IHR System to guarantee the
adaptation of domestic regulations to international standards and made
considerations on the complex interaction between Human Rights and Criminal Law
to support debates on changes in Bolivian criminal legislation.
119. At the public hearing of this case, Ms. Losada stated that the reason she studied Law
was precisely her desire to one day be able to argue before this Court. When asked
what she expected from this Court, the victim referred to the importance of
strengthening the State's response to situations of sexual violence against minors:
I would like to tell the Court that I have worked with 2,200 boys and girls who have
been sexually abused, (…) who seek help and no one responds. I want the Court to
understand that every day my life is at risk, because I do not want my history to be
repeated, and it is being repeated every day, it has been repeated for twenty years, I
want the Court to know that we have the possibility of changing this, and to prevent it
from happening again, so that in twenty years they do not have another girl in
my place, asking them to act, and asking governments to respond to this
horrible situation. 219
120. As can be seen, Ms. Losada expresses a moving detachment, worrying less about
her own situation and more about the general and abstract guarantees of nonrepetition that can protect her peers in the future. For such effects to be effectively
achieved, it is first necessary that her story be told appropriately and, second, that
this narration drives concrete changes. This Court's judgment, with which I agree,
achieves both objectives, but, with special attention to Ms. Losada's commendable
petition, this opinion seeks to highlight them once again.
Rodrigo Mudrovitsch
Judge
Pablo Saavedra Alessandri
Registar
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Cf. Statement of Brisa De Angulo Losada during the public hearing before the Court on March 29, 2022.
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