ANNUAL REPORT 2009

 

CHAPTER III

(continuation)

THE PETITION AND CASE SYSTEM 

 

 

D.                 Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR

 

49.              Complete compliance with the decisions of the Inter-American Commission is essential for ensuring that human rights have full force in the OAS member states, and for helping strengthen the Inter-American system for the protection of human rights. With that in mind, the IACHR, in this section, analyzes the status of compliance with the recommendations in the reports adopted by the Commission in the last nine years.

 

50.              In this regard, the OAS General Assembly, in its resolution AG/RES. 2409 (XXXVIII-O/08), “Observations and Recommendations on the Annual Report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights,” urged the member states to follow up on the recommendations of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (operative paragraph 3.b) and to continue to take appropriate action in connection with the annual reports of the Commission, in the context of the Permanent Council and the General Assembly of the Organization (operative paragraph 3.c). Likewise, in its resolution AG/RES. 2407 (XXXVIII-O/08), “Strengthening of Human Rights Systems pursuant to the mandates arising from the Summits of the Americas,” it reaffirmed the intent of the OAS to continue taking concrete measures aimed at implementing the mandates of the Third Summit of the Americas, including follow-up of the recommendations of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (operative paragraph 1.b), and instructed the Permanent Council to continue to consider ways to promote the follow-up of the recommendations of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights by member states of the Organization (operative paragraph 3.e).

 

51.              Both the Convention (Article 41) and the Statute of the Commission (Article 18) explicitly grant the IACHR the authority to request information from the member states and to produce such reports and recommendations as it considers advisable. Specifically, Article 46 of the IACHR Rules of Procedure in effect in 2009, provided the following:

 

1.  Once the Commission has published a report on a friendly settlement or on the merits in which it has made recommendations, it may adopt the follow-up measures it deems appropriate, such as requesting information from the parties and holding hearings in order to verify compliance with friendly settlement agreements and its recommendations. 2. The Commission shall report on progress in complying with those agreements and recommendations as it deems appropriate.

 

52.              In compliance with its powers under the Convention and the Statute and with the above-cited resolutions, and pursuant to Article 46 of the Rules of Procedure in effect in 2009, the IACHR requested information from the States on compliance with the recommendations made in the reports published on individual cases included in its annual reports from 2000 through 2008.

 

53.              The table the Commission is presenting includes the status of compliance with the recommendations made by the IACHR in the cases that have been decided and published in the last nine years. The IACHR notes that compliance with different recommendations is meant to be successive and not immediate and that some recommendations require a reasonable time to be fully implemented. The table, therefore, presents the current status of compliance, which the Commission acknowledges as being a dynamic process that may evolve continuously. From that perspective, the Commission evaluates whether or not compliance with its recommendations is complete and not whether it has been started.

 

54.              The three categories included in the table are the following:

 

§                     Total compliance (those cases in which the state has fully complied with all the recommendations made by the IACHR. Having regard to the principles of effectiveness and fully observed those recommendations where the state has begun and satisfactorily completed the procedures for compliance);

 

§                     partial compliance (those cases in which the state has partially observed the recommendations made by the IACHR either by having complied with only one or some of them or through incomplete compliance with all of them);

 

§                     compliance pending (those cases in which the IACHR considers that there has been no compliance with the recommendations because no steps have been taken in that direction; because the state has explicitly indicated that it will not comply with the recommendations made; or because the state has not reported to the IACHR and the Commission has no information from other sources that would suggest otherwise).

 

CASE

 

TOTAL COMPLIANCE

PARTIAL COMPLIANCE

PENDING COMPLIANCE

Case 11.307, Report No. 103/01, María Merciadri de Morini (Argentina)[1]

X

 

 

Case 11.804, Report No. 91/03, Juan Ángel Greco (Argentina)

 

X

 

Case 12.080, Report No. 102/05, Sergio Schiavini and María Teresa Schnack (Argentina)

 

X

 

Petition 12.298, Report No. 81/08 Fernando Giovanelli (Argentina)

 

 

X

Cases 12.067, 12.068 and 12.086, Report
No. 48/01
, Michael Edwards, Omar Hall, Brian Schroeter and Jeronimo Bowleg (Bahamas)

 

 

X

Case 12.265, Report 78/07, Chad Roger
Goodman (Bahamas)

 

 

X

Case 12.513, Report 79/07 Prince Pinder
(Bahamas)

 

 

X

Case 12.053, Report No. 40/04, Maya indigenous communities of the Toledo District (Belize)

 

 

X

Case 12.475, Report No. 97/05, Alfredo Díaz Bustos (Bolivia)

 

X

 

Case 12.516, Report No. 98/05, Raúl Zavala Málaga and Jorge Pacheco Rondón (Bolivia)

X

 

 

Petition No. 269-05, Report No. 82/07, Miguel Angel Moncada Osorio and James David Rocha Terraza (Bolivia)

X

 

 

Petition No. 788-06, Report No. 70/07, Víctor Hugo Arce Chávez (Bolivia)

X

 

 

Case 12.051, Report No. 54/01, Maria da Penha Maia Fernandes (Brazil)

 

X

 

Cases 11.286, 11.406, 11.407, 11.412, 11.413, 11.415, 11.416 and 11.417, Report  No. 55/01, Aluísio Cavalcante et al. (Brazil)

 

X

 

Case 11.517, Report No. 23/02, Diniz Bento da Silva (Brazil)

 

X

 

Case 10.301, Report No. 40/03, Parque São Lucas (Brazil)

 

X

 

Case 11.289, Report No. 95/03, José Pereira (Brazil)

 

X

 

Case 11.556, Report No. 32/04, Corumbiara (Brazil)

 

X

 

Case 11.634, Report No. 33/04, Jailton Neri da Fonseca (Brazil)

 

X

 

Cases 12.426 and 12.427, Report No. 43/06, Raniê Silva Cruz, Eduardo Rocha da Silva and Raimundo Nonato Conceição Filho (Brazil)[2]

X

 

 

Case 12.001, Report No. 66/06, Simone André Diniz (Brazil)

 

X

 

Case 12.019, Report No. 35/08, Antonio Ferreira Braga (Brazil)

 

 

X

Case 11.771, Report No. 61/01, Samuel Alfonso Catalán Lincoleo (Chile)

 

 

X

 

Case 11.715, Report No. 32/02, Juan Manuel Contreras San Martín et al. (Chile)[3]

X

 

 

Case 12.046, Report No. 33/02, Mónica Carabantes Galleguillos (Chile)[4]

X

 

 

Case 11.725, Report No. 139/99, Carmelo Soria Espinoza (Chile)

 

X

 

Petition 4617-02, Report N° 30/04, Mercedes Julia Huenteao Beroiza et al. (Chile)

 

X

 

Case 12.142, Report No. 90/05, Alejandra Marcela Matus Acuña et al. (Chile)[5]

X

 

 

Case 11.654, Report No. 62/01, Ríofrío Massacre (Colombia)

 

X

 

Case 11.710, Report No. 63/01, Carlos Manuel Prada González and Evelio Antonio Bolaño Castro (Colombia)

 

X

 

Case 11.712, Report No. 64/01, Leonel de Jesús Isaza Echeverry (Colombia)

 

X

 

Petition 11.141, Report No. 105/05, Masacre de Villatina (Colombia)

 

X

 

Petition 10.205, Report No. 53/06, Germán Enrique Guerra Achuri (Colombia)

 

X

 

Case 12.009, Report No. 43/08, Leydi Dayan Sanchez (Colombia)

 

X

 

Case 12.448, Report No. 44/08, Sergio Emilio Cadena Antolinez (Colombia)

X

 

 

Petition 477-05, Report No. 82/08, X and family (Colombia)

 

X

 

Petition 401-05, Report No. 83/08, Jorge Antonio Barbosa Tarazona et al. (Colombia)

 

X

 

Case 12.476, Report No. 67/06, Oscar Elias Biscet et al. (Cuba)

 

 

X

Case 12.477, Report No. 68/06, Lorenzo Enrique Copello Castillo et al. (Cuba)

 

 

X

Case 11.421, Report No. 93/00, Edison Patricio Quishpe Alcívar (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 11.439, Report No. 94/00, Byron Roberto Cañaveral (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 11.445, Report No. 95/00, Ángelo Javier Ruales Paredes (Ecuador)[6]

X

 

 

Case 11.466, Report No. 96/00,  Manuel Inocencio Lalvay Guamán (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 11.584 , Report No. 97/00, Carlos Juela Molina (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 11.783, Report No. 98/00, Marcia Irene Clavijo Tapia, (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 11.868, Report No. 99/00, Carlos Santiago and Pedro Andrés Restrepo Arismendy
(Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 11.991, Report No. 100/00, Kelvin Vicente Torres Cueva (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 11.478, Report No. 19/01, Juan Clímaco Cuellar et al. (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 11.512, Report No. 20/01, Lida Ángela Riera Rodríguez (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 11.605, Report No. 21/01, René Gonzalo Cruz Pazmiño (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 11.779, Report No. 22/01, José Patricio Reascos (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 11.992, Report No. 66/01, Dayra María Levoyer Jiménez (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 11.441, Report No. 104/01, Rodrigo Elicio Muñoz Arcos et al. (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 11.443, Report No. 105/01, Washington Ayora Rodríguez (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 11.450, Report No. 106/01, Marco Vinicio Almeida Calispa  (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 11.542, Report No. 107/01, Angel Reiniero Vega Jiménez (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 11.574, Report No. 108/01, Wilberto Samuel Manzano (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 11.632, Report No. 109/01, Vidal Segura Hurtado (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 12.007, Report No. 110/01, Pompeyo Carlos Andrade Benítez (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 11.515, Report No. 63/03, Bolívar Franco Camacho Arboleda (Ecuador)  

 

X

 

Case 12.188 , Report No. 64/03, Joffre José Valencia Mero, Priscila Fierro, Zoreida Valencia Sánchez, Rocío Valencia Sánchez (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 12.394, Report No. 65/03, Joaquín Hernández Alvarado, Marlon Loor Argote and Hugo Lara Pinos (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Petition 12.205, Report No. 44/06, José René Castro Galarza (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Petition 12.207, Report No. 45/06, Lizandro Ramiro Montero Masache (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Petition 12.238, Report No. 46/06, Myriam Larrea Pintado (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Petition 533-01, Report No. 47/06, Fausto Mendoza Giler and Diógenes Mendoza Bravo (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Case 12.028, Report No. 47/01, Donnason Knights (Grenada) 

 

X

 

Case 11.765, Report No. 55/02, Paul Lallion (Grenada)

 

X

 

Case 12.158, Report No. 56/02, Benedict Jacob (Grenada)

 

X

 

Case 11.625, Report No. 4/01, María Eugenia Morales de Sierra (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Case 9207, Report No. 58/01, Oscar Manuel Gramajo López (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Report 59/01, Case 10.626, ,  Remigio Domingo Morales and Rafael Sánchez; Case 10.627 Pedro Tau Cac; Case 11.198(A) José María Ixcaya Pixtay et al.; Case 10.799 Catalino Chochoy et al.; Case 10.751 Juan Galicia Hernández et al. and Case 10.901 Antulio Delgado, Report No. 59/01 (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Case 9111, Report No. 60/01, Ileana del Rosario Solares Castillo et al. (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Case 11.382, Report No. 57/02, Finca “La Exacta” (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Case 11.312, Report No. 66/03, Emilio Tec Pop (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Case 11.766, Report No. 67/03, Irma Flaquer (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Case 11.197, Report No. 68/03, Community of San Vicente de los Cimientos (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Petition 9168, Report No. 29/04, Jorge Alberto Rosal Paz (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Petition 133-04, Report No. 99/05, José Miguel Mérida Escobar (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Case 10.855, Report No. 100/05, Pedro García Chuc (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Case 11.171, Report No. 69/06, Tomas Lares Cipriano (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Case 11.658, Report No. 80/07, Martín Pelicó Coxic (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Case 12.264, Report No. 1/06, Franz Britton (Guyana)

 

 

X

Case 12.504, Report 81/07, Daniel and Kornel Vaux (Guyana)

 

 

X

Case 11.335, Report No. 78/02, Guy Malary (Haiti)

 

 

X

Cases 11.826, 11.843, 11.846 and 11.847, Report N° 49/01, Leroy Lamey, Kevin Mykoo, Milton Montique and Dalton Daley (Jamaica)

 

X

 

Case 12.069, Report No. 50/01, Damion Thomas (Jamaica)

 

X

 

Case 12.183, Report No. 127/01, Joseph Thomas (Jamaica)

 

X

 

Case 12.275, Report No. 58/02, Denton Aitken (Jamaica)

 

X

 

Case 12.347, Report No. 76/02, Dave Sewell (Jamaica)

 

X

 

Case 12.417, Report No. 41/04, Whitley Myrie (Jamaica)

 

 

X

Case 12.418, Report No. 92/05, Michael Gayle (Jamaica)

 

X

 

Case 12.447, Report No. 61/06, Derrick Tracey (Jamaica)

 

 

X

Case 11.565, Report No. 53/01, González Pérez Sisters (Mexico)

 

 

X

Case 11.807, Report 69/03, José Guadarrama (Mexico)[7]

X

 

 

Petition 388-01, Report 101/05 Alejandro Ortiz Ramírez (Mexico)[8]

X

 

 

Case 12.130, Report N° 2/06, Miguel Orlando Muñoz Guzmán (Mexico)

 

 

X

Petition 161-02, Report No. 21/07, Paulina del Carmen Ramírez Jacinto (Mexico)

 

X

 

Case 11.381, Report N° 100/01, Milton García Fajardo (Nicaragua)

 

X

 

Case 11.506, Report No. 77/02, Waldemar Gerónimo Pinheiro and José Víctor Dos Santos (Paraguay)

 

 

X

Case 11.800, Report No. 110/00, César Cabrejos Bernuy (Peru)

 

X

 

Case 11.031, Report No. 111/00, Pedro Pablo López González et al. (Peru)

 

X

 

Case 11.099, Report No. 112/00, Yone Cruz Ocalio (Peru)

 

X

 

Cases 10.247 et al., Report No. 101/01, Luis Miguel Pasache Vidal et al. (Peru)

 

X

 

Case 12.035; Report No. 75/02, Pablo Ignacio Livia Robles (Peru)[9]

X

 

 

Case 11.149, Report No. 70/03 Augusto Alejandro Zúñiga Paz (Peru)[10]

X

 

 

Case 12.191, Report No. 71/03, María Mamerita Mestanza (Peru)

 

X

 

Case 12.078, Report No. 31/04, Ricardo Semoza Di Carlo (Peru)

 

X

 

Petition 185-02, Report No. 107-05, Roger Herminio Salas Gamboa (Peru)

 

X

 

Case 12.033, Report No. 49/06, Rómulo Torres Ventocilla (Peru)[11]

X

 

 

Petition 711-01 et al., Report No. 50/06, Miguel Grimaldo Castañeda Sánchez et al. (Peru); Petition 33-03 et al., Report No. 109/06, Héctor Núñez Julia et al. (Peru); Petition 732-01 et al., Report 20/07 Eulogio Miguel Melgarejo et al.; Petition 758-01 et al., Report No 71/07 Hernán Atilio Aguirre Moreno et al.; Petition 494-04 (Peru)

 

X

 

Petition 494-04, Report No. 20/08, Romeo Edgardo Vargas Romero (Peru)

 

 

X

Case 9903, Report No. 51/01, Rafael Ferrer Mazorra et al. (United States)

 

 

X

Case 12.243, Report No. 52/01, Juan Raul Garza (United States)

 

 

X

Case 11.753, Report No. 52/02, Ramón Martinez Villarreal (United States)

 

X

 

Case 12.285, Report No. 62/02, Michael Domingues (United States)[12]

X

 

 

Case 11.140, Report No. 75/02, Mary and Carrie Dann (United States)

 

 

X

Case 11.193, Report No. 97/03, Shaka Sankofa (United States)

 

X

 

Case 11.204, Report No. 98/03, Statehood Solidarity Committee (United States)

 

 

X

Case 11.331, Report No. 99/03, Cesar Fierro (United States)

 

X

 

Case 12.240, Report No. 100/03, Douglas Christopher Thomas (United States)

 

X

 

Case 12.412, Report No. 101/03, Napoleon Beazley (United States)

 

X

 

Case 12.430, Report No. 1/05, Roberto Moreno Ramos, (United States)

 

X

 

Case 12.439, Report No. 25/05, Toronto Markkey Patterson (United States)

 

X

 

Case 12.421, Report No. 91/05, Javier Suarez Medina (United States)

 

X

 

Case 12.534, Report No. 63/08, Andrea Mortlock (United States)

 

 

X

Case 11.500, Report No. 124/06, Tomás Eduardo Cirio (Uruguay)

 

X

 

Case 12.555, Report No. 110/06,  Sebastián Echaniz Alcorta and Juan Víctor Galarza Mendiola (Venezuela)

 

 

X


 

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[8] See IACHR, Annual Report 2007, Chapter III, Section D: Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR, available at: http://www.cidh.oas.org/annualrep/2007eng/Chap.3p.htm#11.807.

[9] See IACHR, Annual Report 2007, Chapter III, Section D: Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR, available at: http://www.cidh.oas.org/annualrep/2007eng/Chap.3p.htm#388/01.

[10] See IACHR, Annual Report 2007, Chapter III, Section D: Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR, paras. 332-335.

[11] See IACHR, Annual Report 2007, Chapter III, Section D: Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR, paras. 336 and 337.

[12] See IACHR, Annual Report 2007, Chapter III, Section D: Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR, paras. 613-616.