On 1 October 2010, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued two sentences holding the Mexican state responsible for the rapes of Me’phaa indigenous women Inés Fernández Ortega and Valentina Rosendo Cantú in 2002.

The Court ruled that both women and their families had been submitted to grave human rights violations, and included in the sentence was the demand for improvements in investigation procedures of rape cases and an end to the application of military justice in cases of human rights abuses committed by soldiers against civilians.

Amnesty International: Mexico must comply with the new rulings by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights 

Mexican TV Interview with Valentina Cantú (in Spanish)