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IACHR Concludes 142nd Period of Sessions.
July 22, 2011
Washington, D.C., July 22, 2011 – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) held its 142nd regular session July 18-22, 2011. The IACHR is composed of Dinah Shelton, Chair; José de Jesús Orozco Henríquez, First Vice-Chair; Rodrigo Escobar Gil, Second Vice-Chair; and Commissioners Luz Patricia Mejía, María Silvia Guillén, Felipe González, and Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro. The Executive Secretary is Santiago A. Canton.
During its 142nd session, the Commission approved 49 reports on individual cases and petitions: 18 on admissibility; 3 on inadmissibility; 3 on friendly settlement; 8 on the merits; 4 decisions to publish a report on the merits; and 13 archive reports, as follows:
Admissibility Reports
Petition 616-98, Argentina – José Luis Hernández
Petition 12.145, Trinidad and Tobago – Kevin Dial and Andrew Dottin
Petition 10.737, Colombia – Víctor Manuel Isaza Uribe and family
Petition 1142-04, Colombia – Fredy Alberto Alvarez and familias (Comuna 13)
Petition 12.336, Colombia – Elio Gelves Carrillo and others
Petition 1082-03, Paraguay –Reinaldo Barreto Medina and Florencio Florentin Mosqueira
Petitions 1105-04, 1201-04 y 1216-04, Peru - Moisés S. Limaco Huayascachi; Néstor Andrés Luyo Pérez and Mario Merwan Chira Alvarado
Petition 422-03, Peru –Cory Clodolia Tenicela Tello and others
Petition 1194-04, Peru –Marco Antonio Abarca Rupay
Petition 801-98, Peru - Carlos Braulio Arana Franco
Petitions 240-00 y 4582-02, Peru – José Félix Arce Apaza y Luis Enrique Quispe Vega
Petition 911-98, Peru – Héctor Fidel Cordero Bernal
Petition 12.125, Peru – Wilbert Apaza Vargas
Petition 243-07, Venezuela – Marcel Granier and others
Petition 11.829, United States – Pedro Luis Medina
Petition 12.333, United States – Miguel Ángel Flores
Petition 12.341, United States – James Wilson Chambers
Petitions 233–04 (Manfred Amrhein Pinto, Ronald Fernandez Pinto, Carlos Osborne Escalante, Carlos Manuel Gonzalez Lizano and Arturo Fallas Zúñiga); 669-04 (Rafael Antonio Rojas Madrigal); 1174-04 (Damas Vega Atencio); 221-05 (Miguel Mora Calvo); 587-05 (Manuel Hernandez Quezada); 1083-06 (Jorge Alberto Martinez Melendez); 1111-06 (Guillermo Rodríguez Silva y Martín Rojas Hernández); 1256-06 (Carlos Eduardo Yépez Cruz, Luis Archbold Jay, Enrique Floyd Archbold Jay, Fernando Saldarriaga Sandarriaga and Miguel Antonio Valverde), Costa Rica – La Reforma
Inadmissibility Reports
Petition 182-03, Peru – René José Sánchez Rivera
Petition 648-98, Peru – Marcos Mauricio Lecca Vergara and others
Petition 55-05, Peru – Teofilo Sánchez Minaya
Friendly Settlement Reports
Case 11.532, Argentina – Penitenciarías de Mendoza
Case 12.306, Argentina – Juan Carlos de la Torre
Case 12.232, Chile – María Soledad Cisternas
Merits Reports
The IACHR approved a total of 8 reports on the merits, which will be made public when the Commission adopts a decision to publish or send the case to the Court, pursuant to Article 51 of the American Convention on Human Rights.
Decision to Publish Merits Reports
Case 12.586, Canadá – John Doe,
Case 10.916, Colombia – James Zapata Valencia y José Heriberto Ramírez Llanos,
Case 12.626, Estados Unidos – Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales) et al.
Case 12.776, Estados Unidos – Jeffrey Timothy Landrigan
Archive Reports
Case 893-07, Brasil – Paulo Veronesi Pavesi
Case 11.745, Brasil – 16 indígenas Yanomami
Case 11.072, Estados Unidos – Francisco Ruiz y otros
Case 12.381, Estados Unidos – Robert Bacon Jr.
Case 483-00, Haití – Jean Paul Bien-Aimé
Case 603-03, México – Antonio Fragoso
Case 12.083, Perú – Jesús Clemente Collas Berru
Case 705-98, Perú – Walter Lorenzo Delgado Rojas
Case 806-98, Perú – Isaías Hinostroza Baldeón y María Jesús Salvador Ricra
Case 11.780, Perú – Javier Diez Canseco y Gustavo Mohme
Case 12.245, Trinidad y Tobago - Robert Taylor
Case 664-02, Venezuela – Vicente Amengual
The 143rd session will be from October 19 to November 4, and the deadline for submitting requests for hearings and working meetings is August 19, 2011.
A principal, autonomous body of the Organization of American States (OAS), the IACHR derives its mandate from the OAS Charter and the American Convention on Human Rights. The Inter-American Commission has a mandate to promote respect for human rights in the region and acts as a consultative body to the OAS in this matter. The Commission is composed of seven independent members who are elected in a personal capacity by the OAS General Assembly and who do not represent their countries of origin or residence.
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