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Cf. Case of Atala Riffo and daughters v. Chile, supra, para. 200 and Case of Furlan and family v. Argentina, supra,
para. 230, citing the Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 12: The right of the child to be heard.
UN Doc. CRC/C/GC/12, July 20, 2009, paras. 15 and 53. See also, Committee on the Rights of the Child, General
Comment No. 14 on the right of the child to have his or her best interests taken as a primary consideration (art. 3, para.
1), UN Doc. CRC/C/GC/14, May 29, 2013, para. 43.
339
Cf. Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 12: The right of the child to be heard. UN Doc.
CRC/C/GC/12, July 20, paras. 53 and 54.
340
Cf. Advisory Opinion OC-21/14, supra, para. 122, citing the Committee on the Rights of the Child, General
Comment No. 12: The right of the child to be heard. UN Doc. CRC/C/GC/12, July 20, para. 21.
341
Cf. Advisory Opinion OC-17/02, supra, para. 102; Case of Atala Riffo and daughters v. Chile, supra, para. 199, and
Case of Mendoza et al. v. Argentina, supra, para. 143.
342
343
Mutatis mutandis, Advisory Opinion OC-21/14, supra, para. 197.
344
Cf. Case of Atala Riffo and daughters v. Chile, supra, para. 199.
345
Cf. Statement made by Osmín Tobar Ramírez during the public hearing held before this Court.
346
Cf. Social study by the social worker of Niños de Guatemala on May 4, 1997 (evidence file, folio 4316).