OEA/Ser.L/V/II.127

Doc. 4 rev. 1

3 March 2007

Original: Spanish

 

 

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 2006

 

 

CHAPTER I             INTRODUCTION (pdf)

 

CHAPTER II            LEGAL BASES AND ACTIVITIES OF THE IACHR DURING 2006 (pdf)

 

A.      Legal bases, functions and powers

 

B.      The Commission’s sessions in 2006

 

         1.     124th regular period of sessions (Washington, D.C.)

         2.     125th regular period of sessions (Guatemala)
         3.     126th regular period of sessions (Washington, D.C.)

 

C.      Visits

 

D.      Activities of the rapporteurships

 

        1.     Rapporteurship on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

          2.     Rapporteurship on the Rights of Women

        3.     Special Rapporteurship on the Rights of Children

        4.     Special Rapporteurship on the Rights of Persons Deprived of
                         their Liberty in the Americas

        5.     Special Rapporteurship on the Rights of Afro-Descendents and against
                         Racial Discrimination

        6.     Special Rapporteurship on Migrant Workers and their Families

        7.     Unit for Human Rights Defenders

                

 E.    Activities of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
        in connection with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

 

 F.    Thirty-sixth regular session of the OAS General Assembly

 

CHAPTER III           THE PETITION AND CASE SYSTEM (pdf)

 

A.      Introduction

 

B.       Statistics


C.      Petitions and cases before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

 

1.       Precautionary measures granted or extended by the IACHR in 2006

 

2.       Petitions declared admissible 

 

3.     Petitions declared inadmissible

4.    Friendly settlements

 

5.     Reports on the merits

D.      Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR

 

E.       Petitions and cases before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

 

                  1.       Provisional measures

 

                  2.       Contentious cases before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

                  

CHAPTER IV          HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENTS IN THE REGION (pdf)

 

          Introduction

 

          Colombia

 

          Cuba

 

          Haiti

 

Venezuela

  

ANNEXES

 

1.       CURRENT STATE OF THE CONVENTIONS AND PROTOCOL ON HUMAN RIGHTS,

          APPROVED WITHIN THE INTER-AMERICAN SYSTEM (PDF)

 

2.       PRESS RELEASES

 

3.       SPEECHES OF THE IACHR

 

4.       IACHR RESOLUTION No. 1/06 - CASE 10.626, REMIGIO DOMINGO MORALES ET AL.
          GUATEMALA

 

5.       IACHR RESOLUTION No. 2/06 - Guatanamo Bay Precautionary Measures

 

 

REPORT OF THE OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION (pdf)