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represented María Isabel’s family before the national and international organs to the event.
The organization and other details of this public ceremony should be consulted previously
and adequately with Rosa Elvira Franco. If there is any disagreement between her and the
State, the Court will decide this. The State has one year from notification of this Judgment
to comply with this obligation.
258. With regard to the State authorities who should attend or participate in this
ceremony, as it has on other occasions, the Court indicates that they should be senior State
officials. It is for the State to define who is designated for this task.
C.2.3. Other measures requested
259. The Court considers that the measures of satisfaction granted are sufficient and,
therefore, does not find the other requests made by the representative admissible.
Regarding the request that a study grant be awarded to María Isabel Veliz Franco’s
brothers, the Court considers that the compensation ordered is sufficient and adequate to
redress the violations suffered by the victims and does not find it necessary to order such a
measure. In addition, the Court takes note of the State’s observations concerning the
available scholarship programs.
D. Guarantees of non-repetition
260. In cases such as this one, guarantees of non-repetition acquire greater relevance as
a measure of reparation to ensure that similar events are not repeated and to help prevent
them.350 In this regard, the Court recalls that the State must prevent the recurrence of
human rights violations such as those described in this case and take all pertinent legal,
administrative and other measures to this end.351
261. Both the Inter-American Commission and the representative asked the Court to
order the State to implement different guarantees of non-repetition. However, the
representative did not request several measures claimed by the Commission, but asked for
others that the Commission had not claimed. Consequently, the Court will proceed to
examine, first, the measures requested only by the Inter-American Commission; then the
measures requested by both the representative and the Commission and, lastly, those that
have been requested only by the representative.
D.1) Request to enhance the institutional capacity to combat impunity in cases of
violence against women and to ensure that such cases are adequately prevented,
investigated, punished and redressed
D.1.1. Arguments of the Commission and the State
262. The Commission considered that the Court should order the State to adopt a
“comprehensive and coordinated policy, supported by sufficient public resources to ensure
that the specific cases of violence against women are adequately prevented, investigated,
punished and redressed.” In addition, it asked that “the institutional capacity to combat
impunity in cases of violence against women [be enhanced], through effective criminal
investigations conducted from a gender perspective and that have constant judicial
oversight, thereby ensuring proper punishment and redress.”
263. The State indicated that it “already has programs aimed at enhancing the
institutional capacity to combat impunity in case of violence against women, [whose] focus
is to prevent, punish and eventually eradicate this.” It also indicated that “in compliance
350
Cf. Case of Pacheco Teruel et al. v. Honduras. Merits, reparations and costs. Judgment of April 27, 2012.
Series C No. 241, para. 92, and Case of Luna López, supra, para. 234.
351
Cf. Case of Velásquez Rodríguez. Reparations and costs, supra, para. 166, and Case of the Pacheco Tineo
Family, supra, para. 265.