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g)
Creation of a database on the deaths of youngsters due to violence
203. It was established that the State does not have a unified registry, coordinated
between the State’s institutions, for the recording of information on criminality,
especially the deaths of youngsters under the age of 18 due to violence. In the light
of the aforementioned, the State must create, within a reasonable period of time, a
unified data base between all institutions involved in the investigation, identification,
and punishment of those responsible for the violent deaths of children and
youngsters in risky situations. That registry must help increase the effectiveness of
the investigations.
E) Costs and Expenses
204. The costs and expenses are included within the concept of reparation
enshrined in Article 63(1) of the American Convention. The Tribunal must prudently
and based on equity appraise their scope, considering the expenses generated
before the domestic and Inter-American jurisdictions, and taking into account their
verification, the circumstances of the specific case, and the nature of the
international jurisdiction for the protection of human rights.119
205. In this regard, the Tribunal considers it in equity to order the State to
reimburse the amount of US$11,000.00 (eleven thousand dollars of the United
States of America) or its equivalent in Honduran currency, which must be delivered
to Bricelda Aide García Lobo, Hilda Estebana Hernández López, and Dilcia Álvarez
Ríos so that they may, on one hand, compensate the expenses in which the next of
kin of Marco Antonio Servellón García, Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez, and
Orlando Álvarez Ríos incurred in before the authorities of domestic jurisdiction, and
on the other, deliver to Casa Alianza and CEJIL the amounts considered appropriate
to compensate the expenses made by them, during the proceedings before the InterAmerican system.
F)
Means of Compliance
206. The State shall pay the compensations and reimburse the costs and expenses
(supra paras. 176, 177, 184, and 205) within one year, as of the notification of this
Judgment. In the case of the other reparations ordered the measures must be
complied with in a reasonable period of time (supra paras. 197, 198, 199, and 202).
207. Payment of the compensations established in favor of the victim and his next
of kin will be made directly to them. If any of them were to pass away, payment will
be made to their successors.
208. In what refers to the compensation ordered in favor of Fidelia Sarahí García
Sánchez, it must be made within a one-year period as of notification of the present
Judgment, to whom exercises her representation or wardship pursuant to the
stipulations of domestic legislation. If said representation has not been appointed,
the State must deposit it in a solvent Honduran institution. Said deposit will be
made within a one-year period as of the notification of the present Judgment, in the
most favorable financial conditions allowed by legislation and bank practices. The
person that results her legal representative within domestic legislation may withdraw
119
Cfr. Case of Montero Aranguren et al., supra note 12, para. 152; Case of Ximenes Lopes, supra
note 3, para. 252; and Case of the Ituango Massacres, supra note 3, para. 414.