Inter-American Commission on Human Rights s3

OEA/Ser.L/V/II.

Doc. 5

7 March 2011

Original: Spanish

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION
ON HUMAN RIGHTS
2010

GENERAL SECRETARIAT

ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES

WASHINGTON, D.C.

INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

MEMBERS

Felipe González

Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro

Dinah Shelton

Luz Patricia Mejía Guerrero

María Silvia Guillén

José de Jesús Orozco Henríquez

Rodrigo Escobar Gil

******

Executive Secretary: Santiago A. Canton

Assistant Executive Secretary: Elizabeth Abi-Mershed

Approved by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on March 7, 2011

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION

ON HUMAN RIGHTS 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1

CHAPTER II LEGAL BASES AND ACTIVITIES OF THE IACHR

DURING 2010 5

A. Legal bases, functions and powers 5

B. The Commission’s sessions in 2010 7

1. 138th regular period of sessions (Washington, D.C.) 7

2. 139th regular period of sessions (Washington, D.C.) 8

3. 140th regular period of sessions (Washington, D.C.) 8

C. Visits 9

D. Thematic and Country Reports 11

E. Activities of the rapporteurships 12

1. Rapporteurship on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 12

2. Rapporteurship on the Rights of Women 14

3. Rapporteurship on the Rights of the Child 16

4. Rapporteurship on the Rights of Persons Deprived of
Liberty in the Americas 17

5. Rapporteurship on the Afro-Descendants and
against Racial Discrimination 19

6. Rapporteurship on Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families 20

7. Unit for Human Rights Defenders 21

F. Other events and activities 22

G. Financial contributions 26

H. Activities of the Inter-American Commission in connection to the

Inter-American Court 26

I. Fortieth regular session of the General Assembly of the OAS 27

CHAPTER III THE PETITION AND CASE SYSTEM 29

A. Introduction 29

B. Statistics 31

C. Petitions and cases before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 42

1. Precautionary measures granted or extended by the IACHR in 2010 42

2. Petitions declared admissible

· Report No. 112/10 Franklin Guillermo Aisalla Molina

Inter-State Petition PI-P2

Ecuador v. Colombia

· Report No. 12/10 Enrique Hermán Pfister Frías and
Lucrecia Oliver de Pfister Frías

Petition 12.106 (Argentina)

· Report No. 38/10 Ivanildo Amaro da Silva et al.

Petition 1198-05 (Brazil)

· Report No. 39/10 Nélio Nakamura Brandão et al.

Petition 150-06 (Brazil)

· Report No. 40/10 Marcio Aurelio Gonçalves

Petition 590-05 (Brazil)

· Report No. 41/10 Adão Pereira de Souza and Clotilde de Souza Rocha

Petition 999-06 (Brazil)

· Report No. 6/10 José do Egito Romão Diniz

Petition 262-05 (Brazil)

· Report No. 7/10 Fátima Regina Nascimento de Oliveira et al.

Petition 12.378 (Brazil)

· Report No. 125/10 Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Peoples

Petition 250-04 (Brazil)

· Report No. 126/10 Roberto Carlos Pereira de Souza et al.

Petition1448-06 (Brazil)

· Report No. 127/10 Thalita Carvalho de Mello et al.

Petition 1454-06 (Brazil)

· Report No. 128/10 Rosa Hernandes Sundermann and José Luis Sundermann

Petition 265-05 (Brazil)

· Report No. 67/10 Juan Luis Pimentel Román

Petition 305-05 (Chile)

· Report No. 171/10 Miguel Angel Millar Silva

Petition 578-03 (Chile)

· Report No. 47/10 Estadero "El Aracatazzo" Massacre

Petition 1325-05 (Colombia)

· Report No. 49/10 Carlos Arturo Uva Velandia

Petition 509-00 (Colombia)

· Report No. 50/10 Aranzazu Meneses de Jiménez

Petition 2779-02 (Colombia)

· Report No. 51/10 Tibú Massacres

Petition 1166-05 (Colombia)

· Report No. 68/10 Valentín Basto Calderón et al.

Petition 10.455 (Colombia)

· Report No. 122/10 Carlos Arturo Betancourt Estrada et al.

Petition 475-00 (Colombia)

· Report No. 123/10 Gerson Jairzinho González Arroyo

Petition 11.144 (Colombia)

· Report No. 124/10 Oscar Orlando Bueno Bonnet,
Jefferson González Oquendo, and Jean Carlos Cayarique

Petition 11.990 (Colombia)

· Report No. 156/10 Daniel Gerardo Gómez Murillo,
Aída Marcela Garita Sánchez et al.

Petition 1368-04 (Costa Rica)

· Report No. 178/10 Victoria Jiménez Morgan and Sergio Jiménez

Petition 469-05 (Costa Rica)

· Report No. 1/10 Homero Flor Freire

Petition 2723-02 (Ecuador)

· Report No. 2/10 Fredy Marcelo Núñez Naranjo et al.

Petition 1011-03 (Ecuador)

· Report No. 3/10 Segundo Norberto Contreras Contreras

Petition 12.088 (Ecuador)

· Report No. 64/10 Juan Carlos Jaguaco Asimbaya

Petition 245-05 (Ecuador)

· Report No. 70/10 César Gustavo Garzón Guzmán

Petition 11.587 (Ecuador)

· Report No. 69/10 Amparo Constante Merizalde

Petition 11.444 (Ecuador)

· Report No. 138/10 Juan José Meza

Petition 12.363 (Ecuador)

· Report No. 139/10 Luis Giraldo Ordóñez Peralta

Petition 11.510 (Ecuador)

· Report No. 140/10 Family of Leonardo Abril Armijo

Petition 4357-03 (Ecuador)

· Report No. 141/10 Luis Eduardo Guachalá Chimbó

Petition 247-07 (Ecuador)

· Report No. 142/10 María Zambrano

Petition 11.513 (Ecuador)

· Report No. 107/10 Patricia Emilie Cuéllar Sandoval et al.

Petition 1138-04 (El Salvador)

· Report No. 143/10 Natividad de Jesús Ramírez et al.

Petition 1137-04 (El Salvador)

· Report No. 109/10 Florentín Gudiel Ramos and Makrina Gudiel Álvarez

Petition 1420-05 (Guatemala)

· Report No. 110/10 Claudina Isabel Velásquez Paiz et al.

Petition 1560-07 (Guatemala)

· Report No. 144/10 Residents of the village of Chichupac and the hamlet of Xeabaj, municipality of Rabinal

Petition 1579-07 (Guatemala)

· Report No. 63/10 Garifuna Community of Punta Piedra and its members

Petition 1119-03 (Honduras)

· Report No. 71/10 Omar Francisco Canales Ciliezar

Petition 691-04 (Honduras)

· Report No. 145/10 Mario Tomás Barahona Zelaya and

Heriberto Antonio Chica Portillo

Petition 942-05 (Honduras)

· Report No. 72/10 Irineo Martínez Torres and Candelario Martínez Damián

Petition 161-01 (Mexico)

· Report No. 73/10 Fernando Rodríguez González et al.

Petition 980-04 (Mexico)

· Report No. 146/10 Manuel Santiz Culebra et al. (Acteal Massacre)

Petition 212-05 (Mexico)

· Report No. 147/10 Jesús Angel Gutiérrez Olvera

Petition 497-03 (Mexico)

· Report No. 148/10 María Luisa Acosta et al.

Petition 830-07 (Nicaragua)

· Report No. 8/10 Jorge Patiño Palacios et al.

Petition 12.374 (Paraguay)

· Report No. 19/10 Felipe Nery Paez Mauro

Petition 898-03 (Paraguay)

· Report No. 62/10 Jorge Sedano Falcón et al.

Petition 142-03 (Peru)

· Report No. 4/10 Rigoberto Tenorio Roca et al.

Petition 664-98 (Peru)

· Report No. 9/10 Luis Enrique López Medrano et al.

Petition 703-98 et al. (Peru)

· Report No. 65/10 Rutaldo Elejo Saavedra and Raúl Andrés Arias

Petition 827-98 (Peru)

· Report No. 66/10 Guillermo Ernesto Yapias Camavilca

Petition 737-01 (Peru)

· Report No. 74/10 Luis A Miranda Moscol, Jorge E. Olivares del Carpio,

Aurelio Aquino Pari, Boris Mijail Taype Castillo

Petitions 574-98, 1067-03, 766-04, and 863-04 (Peru)

· Report No. 75/10 Esteban Juan Martínez Pérez

Petition 1064-98 (Peru)

· Report No. 76/10 Jeremías Osorio Rivera

Petition 11.845 (Peru)

· Report No. 77/10 Luis Alberto Vega Paquillo

Petition 12.154 (Peru)

· Report No. 78/10 Ramón Campos Esparza and
Roberto Antonio Olórtegui Trinidad

Petitions 621-03 and 1378-04 (Peru)

· Report No. 106/10 Oscar Muelle Flores

Petition 147-98 (Peru)

· Report No. 108/10 Orestes Auberto Urriola Gonzáles et al.

Petitions 744-98, 614-00, and 1300-04 (Peru)

· Report No. 149/10 M.P.C. and family members

Petition 1147-05 (Peru)

· Report No. 150/10 José Castro Ballena, María Gracia Oré et al.;

Carlos Alberto Canales Huapaya

Petitions 157-99 and 12.214 (Peru)

· Report No. 151/10 Wong Ho Wing

Petition 366-09 (Peru)

· Report No. 152/10 Alfredo Lagos del Campo

Petition 459-97 (Peru)

· Report No. 155/10 Jaime Humberto Díaz Alva; Rubén Galván Borja; Eduardo E. Espinoza Narcizo; Vladimir Carlos Villanueva

Petitions 755-04, 802-04, 869-04, and 996-04 (Peru)

· Report No. 179/10 Wilfredo Mas Trigoso

Petition 979-98 (Peru)

· Report No. 10/10 Koempai et al.

Petition 214-08 (Suriname)

· Report No. 153/10 Haroon Khan

Petition 43-05 (Trinidad and Tobago)

· Report No. 42/10 N.I. Sequoyah

Petition 120-07 (United States)

· Report No. 43/10 Mossville Enviromental Action Now

Petition 242-05 (United States)

· Report No. 154/10 Linda Loaiza López Soto and next of kin

Petition 1462-07 (Venezuela)

3. Petitions declared inadmissible

· Report No. 157/10 Marcelo Sánchez Mourazos

Petition 696-03 (Argentina)

· Report No. 44/10 Manuel Tejeda Ruelas

Petition 473-03 (Mexico)

· Report No. 89/10 Miguel Woliniec Krovic and family

Petition 12.499 (Paraguay)

· Report No. 5/10 Alicia Álvarez Trinidad

Petition 12.118 (Peru)

· Report No. 13/10 Fidel Gutiérrez Gayoso

Petition 480-00 (Peru)

· Report No. 14/10 Workers dismissed from Lanificio del Perú S.A.

Petition 3576-02 (Peru)

· Report No. 79/10 Association of Retired Oil Industry Workers of Peru
(Metropolitan Area of Lima and Callao)

Petition 12.119 (Peru)

· Report No. 80/10 Martha Alfaro Suárez

Petition 12.280 (Peru)

· Report No. 158/10 Members of the Union of Workers of
Unión Productores de Leche S.A.

Petition 167-99 (Peru)

· Report No. 159/10 Iris Martínez et al.

Petition 1250-06 (Uruguay)

4. Friendly Settlements

· Report No. 15/10 Rodolfo Correa Belisle

Petition 11.758 (Argentina)

· Report No. 16/10 Mario Humberto Gómez Yardez

Petition 11.796 (Argentina)

· Report No. 17/10 Raquel Natalia Lagunas and Sergio Antonio Sorbellini

Petition 12.536 (Argentina)

· Report No. 160/10 Inocencia Luca Pogoraro

Petition 242-03 (Argentina)

· Report No. 161/10 Valerio Castillo Báez

Petition 4554-02 (Argentina)

· Report No. 162/10 Gilda Rosario Pizarro et al.

Petition 12.281 (Chile)

· Report No. 163/10 Mario Alberto Jara Oñate

Petition 12.195 (Chile)

· Report No. 90/10 José Iván Cora Arévalo

Petition 12.642 (Mexico)

· Report No. 91/10 Ricardo Ucán Seca

Petition 12.660 (Mexico)

· Report No. 164/10 Luis Rey García

Petition 12.623 (Mexico)

· Report No. 18/10 Carlos Dogliani

Petition 228-07 (Uruguay)

5. Reports on the Merits

· Report No. 37/10 Manoel Leal de Oliveira

Case 12.308 (Brazil)

· Report No. 56/10 Margarita Barbería Miranda

Case 12.469 (Chile)

· Report No. 121/10 Carlos Alberto Mojoli Vargas

Case 12.431 (Paraguay)

· Report No. 81/10 Wayne Smith, Hugo Armendariz et al.

Case 12.562 (United States)

6. Archival decisions

· Report No. 20/10 Daniel Ricardo Bellini
Petition 139-00 (Argentina)

· Report No. 21/10 Juan Carlos Ruiz Díaz
Petition 1003-03 (Argentina)

· Report No. 22/10 Leonardo Cristian Rocha
Petition 695-01 (Argentina)

· Report No. 165/10 Edilberto Muñoz Coronell (or Coronel) et al.
Petition 444-99 (Barbados)

· Report No. 23/10 Elizabeth Aída Ochoa Mamani
Petition 1375-06 (Bolivia)

· Report No. 45/10 Lawrence Dutra da Costa
Petition 1401-06 (Brazil)

· Report No. 46/10 José Geraldo Araújo da Silva
Petition 456-01 (Brazil)

· Report No. 92/10 José Quirino Alves Júnior
Petition 1122-03 (Brazil)

· Report No.129/10 Persons deprived of liberty in the Central Penitentiary of Paraná
Petition 4327-02 (Brazil)

· Report No. 130/10 Alex Argona
Petition 358-01 (Brazil)

· Report No. 131/10 Celso Daniel
Petition 162-03 (Brazil)

· Report No. 166/10 Guillermo Hansen Calderón
Petition 182-02 (Chile)

· Report No. 167/10 Leopoldo Leonidas Letelier and other
Chilean citizens exiled between 1973 and March 1990

Petition 402-03 (Chile)

· Report No. 52/10 Marina Concepción Ramírez
Petition 509-05 (Colombia)

· Report No. 53/10 Lauterio Ballén Jiménez
Petition 12.283 (Colombia)

· Report No. 54/10 Robert Ayto Ospina López et al.
Petition 10.549 (Colombia)

· Report No. 55/10 Silvina Rosa Angelina González Mejía et al.
Petition 11.591 (Colombia)

· Report No. 58/10 Padre Ezio Guadalupe Roattino Bernardi
Petition 11.744 (Colombia)

· Report No. 93/10 José Arenas Marín et al.
Petition 10.870 (Colombia)

· Report No. 94/10 Ligia Esther Garzón Pinzón
Petition 12.366 (Colombia)

· Report No. 95/10 Guillermo Villamizar Toledo
Petition 11.757 (Colombia)

· Report No. 96/10 X
Petition 12.334 (Colombia)

· Report No. 132/10 José Severo Rubiano Cruz
Petition 11.524 (Colombia)

· Report No. 133/10 Edgar Amilkar Grimaldo Barón and Carlos Reyes Niño
Petition11.770 (Colombia)

· Report No. 134/10 José Fernando Torres Quinteros et al.
Petition 11.642 (Colombia)

· Report No. 135/10 Oscar Miguel and Luis Rafael Sanez Ayala
Petition 11.874 (Colombia)

· Report No. 137/10 Luis Gabriel Caldas León
Petition11.596 (Colombia)

· Report No. 97/10 Seguismundo Gerardo Porras Jiménez
Petition 12.136 (Costa Rica)

· Report No. 98/10 Víctor Eugenio Barrios Fernández
Petition 12.294 (Costa Rica)

· Report No. 168/1010 Antonio Araya Soto
Petition 12.247 (Costa Rica)

· Report No. 59/10 Francisco Llaguno Cobos
Petition 11.452 (Ecuador)

· Report No. 24/10 Guy Legrande
Petition 1282-06 (United States)

· Report No. 99/10 Ana María del Rosario Cóbar Estrada
Petition 917-04 (Guatemala)

· Report No. 100/10 Oscar Manolo Otzoy Tubac
Petition 11.606 (Guatemala)

· Report No. 25/10 Lucien Gervais
Petition 461-01 (Haiti)

· Report No. 26/10 Frantz Henri Jean-Louis and Thomas Asabath
Petition 12.100 (Haiti)

· Report No. 27/10 Rémy and Léonard Lucas
Petition 134-02 (Haiti)

· Report No. 28/10 Canute Cummingham
Petition 897-03 (Jamaica)

· Report No. 101/10 Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa and Lilian Somoza de Sevilla Sacasa
Petition 11.432 (Nicaragua)

· Report No. 169/10 Aníbal Miranda
Petition 12.000 (Paraguay)

· Report No. 29/10 Raúl Alfonso Valdez Roca
Petition 12.036 (Peru)

· Report No. 30/10 Miners employed by Shougang Hierro S.A.
Petition 11.617 (Peru)

· Report No. 31/10 Viviano Hilario Mancha et al.
Petition 10.929 (Peru)

· Report No. 32/10 Carlos Masias Chiroque
Petition 11.718 (Peru)

· Report No. 33/10 Demetrio Limonier Chávez Peñaherrera
Petition 11.806 (Peru)

· Report No. 60/10 Luis Efraín Peña Solar
Petition 10.741 (Peru)

· Report No. 102/10 Members of the Union of Education Workers of Peru
Petition 10.918 (Peru)

· Report No. 103/10 Ana María López Flores et al.
Petition 11.698 (Peru)

· Report No. 104/10 Juan Manuel Castro Vizcarra
Petition 11.177 (Peru)

· Report No. 105/10 María de Jesús García Sánchez et al.
Petition 11.811 (Peru)