ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION 
ON HUMAN RIGHTS 2001

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER II LEGAL BASES, FUNCTIONS AND ACTIVITIES OF THE IACHR DURING 2001

A.       Legal bases, functions and powers

B.       The Commission’s sessions in 2001

C.       Appointment of new IACHR Executive Secretary

D.       On-site visits

E.       Special visits and other activities

F.       Activities of the IACHR in connection with the Inter-American Court of
          Human Rights

G.       Thirty-first regular session of the OAS General Assembly

CHAPTER III THE PETITION SYSTEM AND INDIVIDUAL CASES

A.       Introduction

B.       Statistics

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

1.       Precautionary measures granted or extended by the
          Commission during 2001  

2.       Cases declared admissible
●	Report Nº 67/01 Tomás E. Carvallo Quintana Case 11.859 (Argentina)
●	Report Nº 72/01 Juan Angel Greco Case 11.804 (Argentina)
●	Report Nº 73/01 MZ Case 12.350 (Bolivia)
●	Report Nº 77/01 Humberto Antonio Palamara Iribarne Case 11.571 (Chile)
●	Report Nº 74/01 Giaccomo Turra Case 11.662 (Colombia)
●	Report Nº 75/01 El Aro, Intuango Case 12.266 (Colombia)
●	Report Nº 76/01 Wilson Gutiérrez Soler Case 12.291 (Colombia)
●	Report Nº 128/01 Newspaper "La Nación" Case 12.367 (Costa Rica)
●	Report Nº 78/01 Rigoberto Acosta Calderón Case 11.620 (Ecuador)
●	Report Nº 79/01 Marco Antonio Molina Theissen Case 12.101(Guatemala)
●	Report Nº 80/01 Franz Britton and Aka Collie Wills Case 12.264 (Guyana)
●	Report Nº 129/01 Jean Michel Richardson Case 12.389 (Haiti)
●	Report Nº 124/01 Alfredo López Alvarez Case 12.387 (Honduras)
●	Report Nº 68/01 Santos Soto Ramirez and Sergio Cerón Hernández Case 12.117 (Mexico)
●	Report Nº 81/01 Alfonso Martín del Campo Dodd Case 12.228 (Mexico)
●	Report Nº 118/01 Zoilamérica Narváez Murillo Case 12.230 (Nicaragua)
●	Report Nº 125/01 YATAMA Case 12.388 (Nicaragua)
●	Report Nº 82/01 Aníbal Miranda Case 12.000 (Paraguay)
●	Report Nº 83/01 Zulema Tarazona Arriate et. al. Cases 11.581 (Peru)
●	Report Nº 84/01 Ricardo Manuel Semoza Di Carlo Case 12.078 (Peru)
●	Report Nº 85/01 Workers of the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima and the Municipal Services Company of Lima, Peru Case 12.084 (Peru)
●	Report Nº 86/01 National Federation of Maritime and Port Workers of Peru, Félix Campos Caipo, Sergio Valdivia Ayala, Asisclo Chinapro Fernández, Víctor Briceño Miranda et. al. 4.101 maritime and river workers Case 12.319 (Peru)
●	Report Nº 87/01 Radyo Koulibwi Case 11.870 (Saint Lucia)
●	Report Nº 88/01 Winston Caesar Case 12.147 (Trinidad and Tobago)
●	Report Nº 89/01 Balkissoon Roodal Case 12.342 (Trinidad and Tobago)
●	Report Nº 119/01 Tomás Eduardo Cirio Case 11.500 (Uruguay)
●	Report Nº 90/01 Oscar José Blanco Romero Case 12.256 (Venezuela)
●	Report Nº 91/01 Roberto Javier Hernández Paz Case 12.258 (Venezuela)
●	Report Nº 92/01 José Francisco Rivas Fernández Case 12.307 (Venezuela)
3.       Cases declared inadmissible
●	Report Nº 70/01 Ernesto Galante Petition 12.055 (Argentina)
●	Report Nº 121/01 Segundo Wenceslao Segura Petition 0344/97 (Argentina)
●	Report Nº 122/01 Wilma Rosa Posadas Petition 15/00 (Argentina)
●	Report Nº 69/01 Christián Scheib Campos Petition 329/01 (Chile)
●	Report Nº 93/01 Alberto Dahik Garzozi Petition 12.259 (Ecuador)
●	Report Nº 94/01 Juan Fernando Cabrera Guerrero Petition 12.299 (Ecuador)
●	Report Nº 96/01 José Alberto Pérez Meza Petition 19/99 (Paraguay)
●	Report Nº 120/01 Atanasio Franco Cano Petition 0122/01 (Paraguay)
●	Report Nº 95/01 Liliana Zambrano Pacheco Petition 12.203 (Peru)
4.       Friendly settlements
●	Report Nº 103/01 María Merciadri de Morini Case 11.307 (Argentina)
●	Report Nº 104/01 Rodrigo Elicio Muñoz Arcos et.al. Case 11.441 (Ecuador)
●	Report Nº 105/01 Washington Ayora Rodríguez Case 11.443 (Ecuador)
●	Report Nº 106/01 Marco Vinicio Almeida Calispa Case 11.450 (Ecuador)
●	Report Nº 107/01 Angel Reiniero Vega Jiménez Case 11.542 (Ecuador)
●	Report Nº 108/01 Wilberto Samuel Manzano Case 11.574 (Ecuador)
●	Report Nº 109/01 Vidal Segura Hurtado Case 11.632 (Ecuador)
●	Report Nº 110/01 Pompeyo Carlos Andrade Benítez Case 12.007 (Ecuador)
5.       Reports on the merits
●	Report Nº 66/01 Dayra María Levoyer Jiménez Case 11.992 (Ecuador)
●	Report Nº 127/01 Joseph Thomas Case 12.183 (Jamaica)
●	Report Nº 100/01 Milton García Fajardo et. al. Case 11.381 (Nicaragua)
●	Report Nº 101/01 Extrajudicial Executions and forced disappearances Case 10.247 et. al. (Peru)

D.       Follow-up on the compliance with 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

                    3.          Advisory Opinions

CHAPTER IV              HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENTS IN THE REGION

Introduction

Colombia

Cuba

CHAPTER V                FOLLOW-UP OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS FORMULATED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN ITS REPORTS ON THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN MEMBER STATES

Introduction

Dominican Republic

Paraguay

Peru

CHAPTER VI               SPECIAL STUDIES

Third Progress Report of the Special Rapporteurship
on Migrant Workers and their Families in the Hemisphere

Update on the Work of the Rapporteurship on
the Rights of Women  

ANNEXES

1.       CURRENT STATE OF THE CONVENTIONS AND

          PROTOCOLS ON HUMAN RIGHTS, APPROVED

          WITHIN THE INTER-AMERICAN SYSTEM

2.       PRESS RELEASES

3.       SPEECHES OF THE IACHR