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INTRODUCTION
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has
the honor to submit its Report to the General Assembly, in compliance
with the provisions of Article 53.f of the Charter of the
Organization of American States.
This Report contains five chapters and has been prepared in
accordance with Resolution 331 (VIII-0/78) of the General Assembly
and Article 63 of the new Regulations of the Commission.
Chapter I is a brief summary of the Commission's origin and
juridical bases. This
chapter also contains a brief account of the Commission's relationship
with other organs of the inter-American system and regional and
global institutions of a similar nature during 1994.
Chapter II refers to the activities undertaken by the Commission
during the period covered by this Report.
Emphasis is placed on the Commission's principal activities, as
well as the subjects it dealt with and the most important measures taken
during its various sessions. It
includes the participation of the Commission in the twenty-fourth
regular session of the General Assembly as well as the resolutions
adopted by this organ in relation to the work of the Commission in the
field of human rights.
Chapter III is entitled "Reports on Individual Cases."
This chapter contains several decisions adopted by the Commission
regarding specific cases presented to it, which the Commission processed
in accordance with the applicable legal provisions.
In Chapter IV the Commission has included sections on
developments in the human rights situation in Colombia, Cuba, El
Salvador and Guatemala, in order to examine developments in the
observance of human rights in these countries during the period
encompassed by this Report.
In Chapter V, the Commission has prepared a Report on the
Compatibility of "Desacato" Laws with the American Convention
on Human Rights.
In Chapter VI, the Commission presents a study on those areas in
which the States should take measures to improve the observance of human
rights, in furtherance of the American Declaration of the Rights and
Duties of Man, the American Convention on Human Rights, and
recommendations from the General Assembly to the IACHR.
Finally, a table on the status of request for "on-site"
visits, the current state of Conventions and Protocols on Human Rights,
approved within the inter-American system, press communiques and
speeches issued by the IACHR during the period covered in this Annual
Report are included as Annexes. |