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Annual Report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
2014
GENERAL SECRETARIAT
ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES
WASHINGTON, D.C.
INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
MEMBERS
Tracy Robinson
Rose-Marie Belle Antoine
Felipe González
José de Jesús Orozco Henríquez
Rosa María Ortiz
Paulo Vannuchi
James L. Cavallaro
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Executive Secretary: Emilio Álvarez-Icaza L.
Assistant Executive Secretary: Elizabeth Abi-Mershed
Approved by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on March9 2015
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume I
INTRODUCTION1
A.Origen, legal bases, structure, purposes and mandates1
B.Status of ratification of inter-American instruments3
C.Progress achieved5
CHAPTER IACTIVITIES OF THE IACHRDURING 201415
A.The Inter-American Commission's periods of sessions held in 201415
1.150thregular period of session (Washington, D.C.)15
2.151stregularperiod of session (Washington, D.C.)17
3.152ndextraordinary period of session (Mexico City)17
4.153rd regular period of session (Washington, D.C.)18
B.Official visits19
C.Activities of the Inter-American Commission in connection to the
Inter-American Court22
1.Referral of contentious cases22
2.Requests for provisional measures29
3.Appearance and participation in public and private hearings31
4.Presentation of written observations to State reports in cases
under supervision on compliance32
5.Presentation of written observations to State reports on the
implementation of provisional measures32
D.Forty-Fourth regular session of the General Assembly of the OAS32
E.Activities of the IACHR with other national and international human rights
Mechanisms34
F.Other activities40
CHAPTER II THE PETITION AND CASE SYSTEM45
A.Introduction45
B.Statistics46
C.Petitions and cases before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
1.Precautionary measures granted in 201468
- Petitions declared admissible
Report No. 14/14
Petition 265-00
Agustina Alonso et al. (Argentina)
Report No. 45/14
Petition 325-00
Rufino Jorge Almeida (Argentina)
Report No. 46/14
Petition 714-00
Carlos Jorge Cacece (Argentina)
Report No. 73/14
Petition 272-05
Gustavo Javier Alarcón et al. (Argentina)
Report No. 92/14
Petition 1196-03
Daniel Omar Camusso and son (Argentina)
Report No. 15/14
Petition 691-08
Javier Villanueva Martino et al. (Bolivia)
Report No. 70/14
Petition 1453-06
Maicon de Souza Silva, Renato da Silva Paixão et al. (Brazil)
Report No. 74/14
Petition 1294-05
Mário Almeida Filho and family (Brazil)
Report No. 51/14
Petition 1389-05
Daniel Urrutia Laubreaux (Chile)
Report No. 52/14
Petition 112-09
F.S. (Chile)
Report No. 16/14
Petition 1214-07
Carlos Andrés Galeso Morales et al. (Colombia)
Report No. 17/14
Petition 394-06
José Orlando Giraldo Barrera and family (Colombia)
Report No. 18/14
Petition 1625-07
Y.C.G.M. and relatives (Colombia)
Report No. 36/14
Petition 913-06
Slaughter in Albania (Colombia)
Report No. 47/14
Petition 406-99
Mariela del Carmen Echeverría de Sanguino (Colombia)
Report No. 48/14
Petition 11.641
Pedro Julio Movilla Galarcio (Colombia)
Report No. 49/14
Petition 1196-07
Juan Carlos Martínez Gil (Colombia)
Report No. 50/14
Petition 779-11
Jineth Bedoya Lima (Colombia)
Report No. 94/14
Petition 623-03
Jaime Humberto Uscátegui Ramírez and family members (Colombia)
Report No. 19/14
Petition 329-06
Emilia Morales Campos and Jennifer Emilia Morales Campos (Costa Rica)
Report No. 34/14
Petition 495-07
Ovidio Guiltrichs Vanegas et al. (Costa Rica)
Report No. 75/14
Petition 1018-08
Ronald Moya Chacón and Freddy Parrales Chaves (Costa Rica)
Report No. 95/14
Petition 671-05
Matt Shirzad (Costa Rica)
Report No. 53/14
Petition 202-03
Luis Bolívar Hernández Peñaherrera (Ecuador)
Report No. 78/14
Petition 708-05
Alejandro Ponce Martínez (Ecuador)
Report No. 96/14
Petition 422-06
Tagaeri and Tatomenani indigenous peoples in isolation (Ecuador)
Report No. 20/14
Petition 1566-07
Sipakepense and Mam Mayan communities of Sipacapa and San Miguel Ixtahuacán municipalities (Guatemala)
Report No. 55/14
Petition 818-06
Felipe Matías Calmo, Faustino Mejía Bautista et al. (Guatemala)
Report No. 97/14
Petition 1727-09
V.R.B. and V.M.R. (Guatemala)
Report No. 98/14
Petition 101-06
Edgar Fernando Von Quednow Ponce (Guatemala)
Report No. 21/14
Petition 525-07
Baptiste Willer and Frédo Guirant (Haiti)
Report No. 37/14
Petition 674-06
Garifunacommunity of San Juan and its members (Honduras)
Report No. 38/14
Petition 1089-06
Leonardo René Morales Alvarado et al. (Honduras)
Report No. 56/14
Petition 886-04
Ronald Jared Martínez Velásquez and Marlón Fabricio Hernández Fúnez (Honduras)
Report No. 57/14
Petition 775-03
Juan González et al. (Honduras)
Report No. 76/14
Petition 639-06
Marcelo Ramón Aguilera Aguilar (Honduras)
Report No. 77/14
Petition 140-05
Inés Yadira Cubero González (Honduras)
Report No. 64/14
Petition 806-06
Laureano Brizuela Wilde (Mexico)
Report No. 60/14
Petition 1415-04
Alejandro Nissen Pessolani (Paraguay)
Report No. 35/14
Petition 1334-09
Eulogia and his son Sergio (Peru)
Report No. 61/14
Petition 1235-07
Georgina Gamboa García and family (Peru)
Report No. 62/14
Petition 1216-03
People of Quishque-Tapayrihua (Peru)
Report No. 79/14
Petition 95-07
Julio Casa Nina (Peru)
Report No. 99/14
Petition 446-09
Luis Alberto Rojas Marín (Peru)
Report No. 54/14
Petition 684-14
Russell Bucklew and Charles Warner (United States)
Report No. 58/14
Petition 644-07
Duvi Alrfedo Teixidor Vinjoy (Uruguay)
Report No. 63/14
Petition 519-03
Liliana Velásquez and Marta Colomina (Venezuela)
Petitions declared inadmissible
Report No. 71/14
Petition 537-03
Mayra Espinoza Figueroa (Chile)
Report No. 66/14
Petition 1180-03
Germán Cristino Granados Caballero (Honduras)
Report No. 67/14
Petition 1352-06 and 580-07
Bernardo Romero Vásquez and Raymundo Gil Rendón (Mexico)
Report No. 100/14
Petition 11.082
International abductions (United States)
Friendly Settlements
Report No. 101/14
Petition 21-05
Ignacio Cardozo et al. (Argentina)
Report no. 102/14
Case 11.710
Marcos Gilberto Chaves and Sandra Beatríz Chaves (Argentina)
Report No. 103/14
Case 12.350
M.Z. (Bolivia)
Report No. 59/14
Case 12.376
Alba Lucía Rodríguez (Colombia)
Report No. 65/14
Case 12.769
Irineo Martínez Torres and Calendario (Mexico)
Report No. 69/14
Case 12.041
M.M. (Peru)
Reports on the Merits
Report No. 12/14
Case 12.231
Peter Cash (Bahamas)
Report No. 13/14
Case 12.422
Abu-Ali Abdur' Rahman (United States)
Report No. 44/14
Case 12.873
Edgar Tamayo Arias (United States)
Archival decisions
Report No. 22/14
Petition 735-03
Eduardo Francisco Yanno (Argentina)
Report No. 24/14
Petition 12.538
Eugenio Sandoval (Argentina)
Report No. 24/14
Petition 12.538
Eugenio Sandoval (Argentina)
Report No. 104/14
Petition 471-04
Marcos Flavio Garcia (Argentina)
Report No. 105/14
Petition 590-01
Catalina Maria Admson Perkins (Argentina)
Report No. 25/14
Petition 12.016
César Eugenio Jaramillo Gutiérrez (Ecuador)
Report No. 106-14
Petition 11.777
Diego Patricio Jacome Maldonado (Ecuador)
Report No. 68/14
Petition 10.237
Manuel De Jesús Araujo Sánchez (El Salvador)
Report No. 81/14
Petition 11.483
Leandro Zelada Méndez (Guatemala)
Report No. 82/14
Petition 11.311
Germán Alfredo de León Parajón (Guatemala)
Report No. 83/14
Case 12.438
Pierre Luckner (Haiti)
Report No. 28/14
Petition 1273-06
Margarita María Garcés Zuluaga and Luis Guillermo Jiménez Montoya (Honduras)
Report No. 84/14
Petition 11.802
Minors detained in Comayagua, Ramón Hernández Berríos et al. (Honduras)
Report No. 85/14
Petition 11.135
Mario Enrique Ramírez (Honduras)
Report No. 29/14
Petition 11.884
Whitely Dixon (Jamaica)
Report No. 107/14
Petition 12.117
Santos Soto Ramírez and Sergio Cerón Hernández (Mexico)
Report No. 108/14
Petition 300-05
Luis Alberto Timoteo Argote (Peru)
Report No. 109/14
Petition 301-05
Eleazar Guevara Julián (Peru)
Report No. 110/14
Petition 302-05
Edilberto Liñan Burgos (Peru)
Report No. 111/14
Petition 1049-04
Ian Erick Concepción Alvarado (Peru)
Report No. 112/14
Petition 1493-05
Marcos Sandoval Romaina (Peru)
Report No. 30/14
Petition 12.260
Franklyn Villaroel (Trinidad and Tobago)
Report No. 31/14
Petition 11.837
Indravani Pamela Ramjattan (Trinidad and Tobago)
Report No. 26/14
Petition 944-11
Mark Anthony Stroman (United States)
Report No. 27/14
Petition 1281-06
Mohammed Munaf (United States)
Report No. 80/14
Petition 12.261
Phillip Ray Workman (United States)
Report No. 32/14
Petition 10.315
Luis Miguel Villanueva (Venezuela)
Report No. 86/14
Petition 496-01
Ayari Coromto et al. (Venezuela)
Report No. 87/14
Petition 12.443
Mauro Acosta Padrón et al. (Venezuela)
D.Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR80
CHAPTER IIIACTIVITIES OF THE RAPPORTEURS´OFFICES, THEMATIC AND COUNTRY REPORTS AND PROMOTION
A.Thematic and Country Reports307
1.Office of the Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples307
2.Office of the Rapporteur on the Rights of Women309
3.Office of the Rapporteur on Rights of Migrants312
4.Office of the Rapporteur on the Rights of the Child314
5.Office of the Rapporteur for Human Rights Defenders317
6.Office of the Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons Deprived of
Liberty in the Americas319
7.Office of the Rapporteur on the Afro-Descendants and
against Racial Discrimination322
8.Unit for the Rights of Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,Trans,
and Intersex Persons324
9.Unit on Unit on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 328
B.Thematic and country reports330
C.Promotional activities330
CHAPTER IVHUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENTS IN THE REGION
Introduction335
- Overview of the human rights situation in the hemisphere337
- List of press releases and request for information from the States
in the exercise of the monitoring faculty337
2.Issues of concern345
- Countries389
Cuba389
Venezuela432
CHAPTER VFOLLOW-UP OF RECOMMENDATIONS ISSUED BY THE IACHR
IN ITS COUNTRY OR THEMATIC REPORTS545
Colombia545
Jamaica655
CHAPTER VIINSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS669
- Structure and personnel of the IACHR669
- Financial resources and budget execution672
1.Regular Fund672
2.Specific Funds675
3.IACHR Strategic Plan677
4.Contributions made from January 1, 2014 until November 30, 2014677
5.Proposals being prepared and negotiations in the initial stage678
C.Technology advances680
Volume IIANNEXES
- Right to the Truth in the Americas
- Considerations related to the ratification of the American Convention and other inter-American human rights treaties (pending publication)
- Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in British Columbia, Canada
- Report of the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression
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