ANNUAL REPORT OF THE IACHR 2006

 

D.         Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR

             

48.      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 six years.

 

49.      In this regard, the OAS General Assembly, in its resolution AG/RES. 2227 (XXXVI-O/06), “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. 2220 (XXXVI-O/06), “Strengthening of Human Rights Systems pursuant to the Plan of Action of the Third Summit 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 2.b), and instructed the Permanent Council to hold a meeting of the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs to consider means of promoting follow-up on the recommendations of the Commission by the Organization’s member states (operative paragraph 3.e).

 

50.      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, which took effect on May 1, 2001, provides 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.

 

51.       In compliance with its powers under the Convention and the Statute and with the above-cited resolutions, and pursuant to Article 46 of its Rules of Procedure, 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 for 2000 and 2005. The Commission also decided to include on its web page (www.cidh.org) a copy of the responses from the member states in cases where they expressly requested that this be done.

 

52.       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 three 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. In this section, the IACHR has tried to assemble the comments made by the representatives of different member states upon presentation of the Annual Report for 2002.

 

53.       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

Report Nº 91/03 Juan Ángel Greco

Case 11.804 (Argentina)

 

X

 

Report Nº 102/05 Sergio Schiaviani y María Teresa Schnack de Schiavini
Case 12.080 (Argentina)

 

X

 

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

 

 

X

Report Nº 40/04 Maya indigenous communities of the Toledo District

Case 12.053 (Belize)

 

 

X

Report Nº 97/05 Alfredo Díaz Bustos
Petition 14/04/Case 12.515 (Bolivia)

 

X

 

Report Nº 98/05 Raúl Zavala Málaga and Jorge Pacheco Rondón
Petition 241/04/Case 12.516 (Bolivia)

X

 

 

Report Nº 54/01 Maria da Penha
Case 12.051 (Brazil)

 

X

 

Report Nº 55/01 Aluisio Cavalcante et al.

Case 11.286 (Brazil)

 

 

X

Report Nº 23/02 Diniz Bento Da Silva

Case 11.517 (Brazil)

 

 

X

Report Nº 40/03 Parque São Lucas

Case 10.301 (Brazil)

 

X

 

Report Nº 95/03 José Pereira

Case 11.289 (Brazil)

 

X

 

Report Nº 32/04 Corumbiara Massacre

Case 11.556 (Brazil)

 

 

X

Report Nº 33/04 Jailton Neri Da Fonseca

Case 11.634 (Brazil)

 

 

X

Report Nº 43/06 Case 12.426 Ranie Silva Cruz and Case 12.427 Eduardo Rocha da Silva and Raimundo Nonato Conceiao Filho (Brazil)

 

X

 

Report Nº 61/01 Samuel Alfonso Catalán Lincoleo

Case 11.771 (Chile)

 

X

 

Report Nº 19/03 Carmelo Soria Espinoza
Case 11.725 (Chile)

 

 X

 

Report Nº 30/04 Mercedes Julia Huenteao Beroiza et al.

Petition 4617/02 (Chile)

 

X

 

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

 

 

X

Report Nº 62/01 Ríofrío Massacre

Case 11.654 (Colombia)

 

X

 

Report Nº 63/01 Carlos Manuel Prada González and Evelio Antonio Bolaño Castro

Case 11.710 (Colombia)

 

 

X

Report Nº 64/01 Leonel de Jesús Isaza Echeverry

Case 11.712 (Colombia)

 

 

X

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

 

X

 

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

 

X

 

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

 

X

 

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

 

X

 

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

 

X

 

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

 

X

 

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

 

X

 

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

 

X

 

Report Nº 20/01 Lida Angela Riera Rodríguez
Case 11.512 (Ecuador)

 

X

 

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

 

X

 

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

 

X

 

Report Nº 66/01 Dayra María Levoyer Jiménez

Case 11.992 (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Report Nº 104/01 Rodrigo Elicio Muñoz Arcos et al.

Case 11.441 (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Report Nº 105/01 Washington Ayora Rodríguez

Case 11.443 (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Report Nº 106/01 Marco Vinicio Almeida Calispa

Case 11.450 (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Report Nº 107/01 Angel Reiniero Vega Jiménez

Case 11.542 (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Report Nº 108/01 Wilberto Samuel Manzano

Case 11.574 (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Report Nº 109/01 Vidal Segura Hurtado

Case 11.632 (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Report Nº 110/01 Pompeyo Carlos Andrade Benítez

Case 12.007 (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Report Nº 63/03 Bolívar Franco Camacho Arboleda

Case 11.515 (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Report Nº 64/03 Joffre José Valencia Mero, Priscila fierro, Zoreida Valencia Sánchez, Rocio Valencia Sánchez

Case 12.188 (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Report Nº 65/03 Joaquín Hernández Alvarado, Marlon Loor Argote y Hugo Lara Pinos

Case 12.394 (Ecuador)

 

X

 

Report Nº 47/01 Donnason Knights

Case 12.028 (Grenada)

 

 

X

Report Nº 55/02 Paul Lallion

Case 11.765 (Grenada)

 

 

X

Report Nº 56/02 Benedit Jacob

Case 12.158 (Grenada)

 

 

X

Report Nº 4/01 María Eugenia Morales de Sierra

Case 11.625 (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Report Nº 58/01 Oscar Manuel Gramajo López

Case 9207 (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Report Nº 59/01 Remigio Domingo Morales et al.

Cases 10.626 et al. (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Report Nº 60/01 Ileana del Rosario Solares Castillo et al.

Case 9111 (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Report Nº 57/02 Finca La Exacta

Case 11.382 (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Report Nº 66/03 Emilio Tec Pop

Petition 11.312 (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Report Nº 67/03 Irma Falquer

Petition 11.766 (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Report Nº 68/03 San Vicente de Los Cimientos Community

Petition 11.197 (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Report Nº 29/04 Jorge Alberto Rosal Paz

Petition 9168 (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Report Nº 99/05 José Miguel Merida Escobar
Petition 133/04 (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Report Nº 100/05 Pedro García Chuc
Petition 10.855 (Guatemala)

 

X

 

Report Nº 78/02 Guy Malari

Case 11.335 (Haiti)

 

 

X

Report Nº 49/01 Leroy Lamey
Case 11.826 et al. (Jamaica)

 

X

 

Report Nº 50/01 Damion Thomas

Case 12.069 (Jamaica)

 

 

X

Report Nº 127/01 Joseph Thomas

Case 12.183 (Jamaica)

 

 

X

Report Nº 58/02 Denton Aiken

Case 12.275 (Jamaica)

 

X

 

 

Report Nº 59/02 Dave Sewell

Case 12.347 (Jamaica)

 

X

 

Report Nº 41/04 Whitley Myrie

Case 12.417 (Jamaica)

 

 

X

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

 

X

 

Report Nº 53/01 Ana, Beatriz and Celia González Pérez

Case 11.565 (Mexico)

 

 

X

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