San Salvador, El Salvador, August 21, 2023.- On August 18, the Inter-American Court concluded in San Salvador the second edition of the Course on Women’s Rights in the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It was held at the “Dr. Arturo Zeledón Castrillo” Judicial Training School of the National Council of the Judiciary (CNJ) and was inaugurated by Licda. Bessy Aguirre de Flores, Director of that school. There were over 40 participants from the justice administration, including individuals from the Judicial Branch, the Attorney General’s Office and the Public Prosecutor’s Office, among other institutions key to the protection of the rights of women, children and adolescents in El Salvador.

The course was facilitated by attorneys Juana María Ibáñez Rivas, former attorney of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and international consultant on human rights and international humanitarian law; Cecilia La Hoz Barrera, former attorney of the Secretariat of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Inés Jaureguiberry, Public Defender of Argentina.

The second edition of the Course on women’s rights in the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights is part of the third phase of the "Strengthening the Protection of Human Rights and the Rule of Law through jurisprudential dialogue, optimization of institutional capacities and compliance with the Judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala” project, signed with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), which seeks to optimize the capacities of the judicial administration officers for the application of International Human Rights Law and the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.