INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

OEA/Ser.L/V/II.Doc. 5031 December 2013Original: Spanish

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION

ON HUMAN RIGHTS2013

GENERAL SECRETARIATORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES

WASHINGTON, D.C.

INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

MEMBERS

José de Jesús Orozco Henríquez

Tracy Robinson

Felipe González

Dinah Shelton

Rodrigo Escobar Gil

Rosa María Ortiz

Rose-Marie Belle Antoine

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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 December 31 2013

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS2013

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Volume I

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................1

A. Origen, legal bases, structure, purposes and mandates.....................................................1B. Status of ratification of inter-American instruments..........................................................6C. Progress achieved..............................................................................................................6

CHAPTER I ACTIVITIES OF THE IACHR DURING 2013 .........................................................................13

A. The Inter-American Commission's Periods of Sessions held in 2013................................13

1. 147tH regular period of sessions (Washington, D.C.)............................................132. 148th regular period of sessions (Washington, D.C.)............................................153. 149th regular period of sessions (Washington, D.C.)............................................15

B. Visits.................................................................................................................................16

C. Activities of the Inter-American Commission in connection to the Inter-American Court.......................................................................................................19

1. Referral of contentious cases..............................................................................192. Requests for provisional measures......................................................................253. Appearance and participation in public and private hearings.............................254. Presentation of written observations to State reports in cases

under supervision on compliance.......................................................................265. Presentation of written observations to State reports on the

implementation of provisional measures............................................................27

D. Forty-third regular session of the General Assembly of the OAS.....................................27

E. Activities of the IACHR with other national and international human rights Mechanisms.....................................................................................................................29

F. Other activities.................................................................................................................35

CHAPTER II THE PETITION AND CASE SYSTEM ...................................................................................39

A. Introduction.....................................................................................................................39B. Statistics...........................................................................................................................40

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

1. Precautionary measures granted in 2013 ..........................................................63

2. Petitions declared admissible

Report No. 5/13Petition 273-05Nam Qom indigenous community of the Qom (Toba) people (Argentina)

Report No. 35/13Petition 828-01Marcelo Darío Posadas et al. (Argentina)

Report No. 88/13Petition 404-00Marcelo Fabián Nievas (Argentina)

Report No. 104/13Petition 643-00Hebe Sánchez de Améndola and children (Argentina)

Report No. 36/13Petition 403-02José Delfín Acosta Martínez (Argentina)

Report No. 37/13Petition 1279-04M.V.M. y P.S.R. (Brazil)

Report No. 89/13Petition 879-07Loni Edmonds and children (Canada)

Report No. 29/13Petition 1288-06Aymara Indigenous Community of Chusmiza-Usmagama (Chile)

Report No. 28/13Petition 1345-05Teachers of Chañaral (Chile)

Report No. 38/13Petition 65-04Jorge Adolfo Freytter Romero et al. (Colombia)

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Report No. 39/13Petition 424-99Gerardo Bedoya Borrero (Colombia)

Report No. 40/13Petition 12.362Relatives of Luis Fernando Lalinde Lalinde (Colombia)

Report No. 41/13Petition 12.295Jesús Ramiro Zapata (Colombia)

Report No. 90/13Petition 222-10Josué Vargas et al. (Colombia)

Report No. 105/13Petition 514-00Oscar Alfonso Morales Díaz and family (Colombia)

Report No. 42/13Petition 595-05Carlos Julio Aguinaga Aillón (Ecuador)

Report No. 43/13Petition 171-06Y.G.S.A. (Ecuador)

Report No. 44/13Petition 55-00Gustavo Washington Hidalgo (Ecuador)

Report No. 45/13Petition 421-05Eduardo Julián Parrilla Ortiz (Ecuador)

Report No. 54/13Petition 174-08Julio García Romero and family (Ecuador)

Report No. 91/13Petition 910-07Daría Olinda Puertocarrero Hurtado (Ecuador)

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Report No. 6/13Petition 372-04Irma Leticia Orellana López Viuda de Romero, Brenda Carolina Romero Orellana, Claudia María Romero Orellana and Guillermo Enrique Romero Orellana (Guatemala)

Report No. 7/13Petition 793-06Ramírez brothers and family (Guatemala)

Report No. 8/13Petition 992-05José Tulio Carrillo Hernández (Guatemala)

Report No. 92/13Petition 843-07Nicolás Mateo et al. (Guatemala)

Report No. 55/13Petition 375-07Spencer Friend Montehermoso et al. (Guatemala)

Report No. 56/13Petition 80-02Herminio Deras García et al. (Honduras)

Report No. 92/13Petition 1063-07Jesús Flores Satuye et al. (Honduras)

Report No. 26/13Petition 1121-04Rogelio Jiménez López et al. (Mexico)

Report No. 32/13Petition 276-04Siegfried Jesús de los Reyes Vomend (Mexico)

Report No. 46/13Petition 659-07Ángel Concepción Pérez Gutiérrez and Francisco Pérez Vásquez (Mexico)

Report No. 47/13Petition 1266-06Ángel Diaz Cruz et al. (Mexico)

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Report No. 48/13Petition 880-11Nitza Paola Alvarado Espinoza et al. (Mexico)

Report No. 49/13Petition 1225-04Gerardo Cruz Pacheco (Mexico)

Report No. 50/13Petition 1491-06 Guzmán Cruz family (Mexico)

Report No. 57/13Petition 12.229Digna Ochoa (Mexico)

Report No. 94/13Petition 790-05Patients of the Psychiatric Service of Santo Tomás Hospital (Panama)

Report No. 27/13Petition 164-01Jorge Luis López Sosa (Paraguay)

Report No. 31/13Petition 725-01Oscar Mauricio Cañete (Paraguay)

Report No. 58/13Petition 200-01Pablo Yupán García (Peru)

Report No. 9/13Petition 1621-09Kaliña indigenous community of Maho (Suriname)

Report No. 80/13Petition 1278-13Robert Gene Garza (United States)

Report No. 10/13Petition 70-08Pedro César Marcano Urriola (Venezuela)

Report No. 59/13Petition 212-06Rocío San Miguel Sosa et al. (Venezuela)

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Petitions declared inadmissible

Report No. 106/13Petition 951-01 Francisco José Magi (Argentina)

Report No. 107/13Petition 89-00Alfredo Arresse et al. (Argentina)

Report No. 60/13Petition 1242-07José Maria Guimaraes (Brazil)

Report No. 11/13Petition 157-06Juan Fernando Vera Mejías (Chile)

Report No. 108/13Petition 4636-02Juan Echeverría Manzo et al. (Chile)

Report No. 118/13Petition 1428-09MLPZ and father (Chile)

Report No. 95/13Petition 200-03Juan Manuel Crespo Nieto (Ecuador)

Report No. 12/13Petition 692-04Doris Argelia Arévalo Sierra (Honduras)

Report No. 13/13Petition 670-01Gerardo Páez García (Venezuela)

Friendly Settlements

Report No. 109/13Case 12.182Florentino Rojas (Argentina)

Report No. 61/13Case 12.631Karina Montenegro et al. (Ecuador)

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Report No. 62/13Case 12.547Rigoberto Cacho Reyes (Honduras)

Report No. 24/13Case 12.358Octavio Rubén González Acosta (Paraguay)

Report No. 25/13Petition 1097-06Miriam Beatriz Riquelme Ramírez (Paraguay)

Report No. 63/13Case 12.473Jesús Manuel Naranjo Cárdenas et al. (Venezuela)

Reports on the Merits

Report No. 51/13 Case 12.551Paloma Angélica Escobar Ledezma et al. (Mexico)

Report No. 52/13Case 11.575, 12.333, 12.341Clarence Allen Jackey et al.; Miguel Ángel Flores, James Wilson Chambers (United States)

Report No. 53/13Case 12.864Iván Teleguz (United States)

Archival decisions

Report No. 96/13Petition 12.779Franklin Guillermo Aisalla Molina and family (EC-CO)

Report No. 77/13Petition 12.106Enrique Hermann Pfister Frías et al. (Argentina)

Report No. 110/13Petition 354-03Edgar Rubén Godoy (Argentina)

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Report No. 111/13Petition 4468-02Francisco Javier Trusso (Argentina)

Report No. 112/13Petition 454-99 Pablo Eliseo Outes (Argentina)

Report No. 113/13Petition 94-01Edgardo Mario Gille (Argentina)

Report No. 114/13Petition 990-03Enrique Grassis (Argentina)

Report No. 115/13Petition 978-04Jorge Michael Ríos (Argentina)

Report No. 116/13Petition 996-03Ramiro Diez Llano and family (Argentina)

Report No. 117/13Petition 12.135Carlos Ángel Pavicih and Olinda Montenegro (Argentina)

Report No. 14/13Petition 12.460Aguinaldo Camilo da Silva (Brazil)

Report No. 15/13Petition 1428-06Mabel dos Santos (Brazil)

Report No. 64/13Petition 335-03E.A.V. (Costa Rica)

Report No. 65/13Petition 11.495Juan Ramón Chamorro Quiroz (Costa Rica)

Report No. 16/13Petition 11.648Magalys Sánchez Hernández et al. (Cuba)

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Report No. 17/13Petition 11.649Members of the Democratic Party 30th of November (Cuba)

Report No. 18/13Petition 11.674Elio Borges Guzmán (Cuba)

Report No. 19/13Petition 12.062Cecilio Monteagudo Sánchez (Cuba)

Report No. 66/13Petition 11.401Carmen Julia Arias Iglesias (Cuba)

Report No. 67/13Petition 11.431Juan Guarino Martínez Guillén et al. (Cuba)

Report No. 68/13Petition 11.645Santiago Gil Vicente (Cuba)

Report No. 69/13Petition 12.102Raymundo Guerrero Marrero (Cuba)

Report No. 20/13Petition 12.090Jesús Enrique Valderrama Perea (Ecuador)

Report No. 70/13Petition 12.272Eduardo Romeo Lagos Guerrero (Ecuador)

Report No. 71/13Petition 11.480Walter Alejandrino Arroba et al. (Ecuador)

Report No. 72/13Petition 742-02María Mercedes Burga Velásquez (Ecuador)

Report No. 73/13Petition 3683-03Brenda Marisol Cabrera Hernández and 86 other alleged victims (El Salvador)

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Report No. 21/13Petition 652-03Esthela Jeaneth Cruz Estrada (Mexico)

Report No. 74/13Petition 104-02Cinthia Rocío Acosta Alvarado (Mexico)

Report No. 75/13Petition 12.185Tomás de Jesús Barranco (Mexico)

Report No. 97/13Petition 4070-02Indigenous Community Mazahua of San Antonio Pueblo Nuevo and its members (Mexico)

Report No. 98/13Petition 585/01Jorge Eliécer Bernal Guzmán (Panama)

Report No. 23/13Petition 10.719Ramón Lozano Panduro (Peru)

Report No. 22/13Petition 11.338 Jesús Vera Virgilio et al. (Peru)

Report No. 99/13Petition 10.673Francisco de Asís Surco (Peru)

Report No. 100/13Petition 10.533Javier Alarcón Guzmán (Peru)

Report No. 76/13Petition 12.194Euclides Rafael Moreno (Venezuela)

Report No. 101/13Petition 11.169Carlos Andrés Pérez (Venezuela)

D. Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR ....................................74

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CHAPTER III ACTIVITIES OF THE RAPPORTEURS´OFFICES, THEMATIC AND COUNTRY REPORTS AND PROMOTION

A. Thematic and Country Reports......................................................................................331

1. Office of the Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.........................3312. Office of the Rapporteur on the Rights of Women............................................3333. Office of the Rapporteur on Rights of Migrants................................................3354. Office of the Rapporteur on the Rights of the Child..........................................3385. Office of the Rapporteur for Human Rights Defenders.....................................3416. Office of the Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons Deprived of

Liberty in the Americas.....................................................................................3437. Office of the Rapporteur on the Afro-Descendants and

against Racial Discrimination.............................................................................3458. Unit for the Rights of Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Trans, Bisexual,

and Intersex Persons.........................................................................................3479. Unit on Unit on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ......................................352

B. Thematic and country reports........................................................................................354

C. Promotional activities....................................................................................................354

CHAPTER IV HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENTS IN THE REGION

Introduction...............................................................................................................................359

A. Overview of the human rights situation in the hemisphere...........................................362

1. List of press releases and request for information from the states in the exercise of the monitoring faculty...........................................................362

2. Overview on universal ratification, incorporation of standards, conventionality control and compliance with IACHR’s recommendations and decisions...........382

B. Countries........................................................................................................................392

Cuba............................................................................................................................................392Honduras....................................................................................................................................431Venezuela...................................................................................................................................497

CHAPTER V FOLLOW-UP OF RECOMMENDATIONS ISSUED BY THE IACHR IN ITS COUNTRY OR THEMATIC REPORTS......................................................................................................601

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CHAPTER VI INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS ................................603

A. Structure and personnel of the IACHR...........................................................................603

B. Financial resources and budget execution.....................................................................607

1. Regular Fund.....................................................................................................6072. Specific Funds....................................................................................................608

C. Administrative advances................................................................................................611

1. Technology and systems units.................................................................................6112. Department of Institutional Development and Administrative Affairs....................611

Volume II ANNEXES

Report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the Situation of Persons Deprived of Liberty in Honduras

The Right of Boys and Girls to a Family. Alternative care. Ending Institutionalization in the Americas*

Guarantees for the Independence of Justice Operators. Towards Strengthening Access to Justice and the Rule of Law in the Americas

Friendly Settlement Procedure Impact Report*

Human Rights of Migrants and other Persons in the Context of Human Mobility in Mexico*

Truth, Justice and Reparation: Fourth Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Colombia*

Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact in the Americas: Recommendations for the Full Respect of their Human Rights*

Report on Pre-trial detention in the Americas*

Report of the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression

* Approved by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Pending publication.

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