Judicial decisions have both an individual and a collective power.
Judicial decisions impact the most intimate details of everyday life, and they also shape the identity of the judiciary. Judicial decisions thus play a major role in defining the character of a democratic nation and in giving meaning to the rule of law. Thus, the Office of the President of the Supreme Court of Mexico aims to promote jurisprudential practices that uphold the principle of the right to equality. Such an effort requires generating tools that can help jurists to adjudicate cases with a gender perspective. The goal of this Protocol for Judicial Decision-Making with a Gender Perspective is to address and remedy certain problems identified by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in three recent cases against Mexico: the ‘Cotton Field” Case (Campo Algodonero), the Ines Fernandez Ortega Case, and the Valentina Rosendo Cantú Case. In those cases, the Inter-American Court made clear that Mexican courts must apply, as binding law, the international human rights treaties...