- English
- Español
The friendly settlement mechanism allows the creation of spaces for dialogue between alleged victims, petitioners and States, to reach agreements that establish reparation measures beneficial to the alleged victims of the denounced situation and often to society as a whole. Likewise, it also makes it possible to conclude the controversy outside the contentious route, demonstrates the commitment of States to respect and guarantee human rights, as well as the fulfillment in good faith of the obligations assumed in the American Convention and other regional instruments for the protection of human rights.
The procedure is based on two fundamental pillars: the will of the parties to reach a friendly settlement of the matter and the fulfilment of the reparation measures provided for in the friendly settlement agreement. Once the amicable settlement agreement is signed, States have the duty to comply fully and in good faith with the commitments undertaken in this agreement.
When the agreement is approved and published by the IACHR, it has legal effects and the petition concludes in the system of petitions and cases as established in Article 49 of the ACHR by virtue of which the approval and publication of agreements by the IACHR is carried out. Subsequent to the publication of the report approving the agreement in light of Article 49, the IACHR monitors compliance with the commitments established in the agreement that are pending for implementation until achieving the full compliance with the agreement.
In the files listed below you can access the detail about friendly settlement agreements that have reached full compliance.
The category of Full compliance refers to those cases in which the State has fully complied with all the clauses of the friendly settlement agreements that have been approved and published by the. The Commission considers as fully complied with those clauses of FSAs in which the State has initiated and satisfactorily concluded all the corresponding actions to their fulfillment.
Once that full compliance with the commitments established in the friendly settlement agreements approved and published by the IACHR is achieved, their supervision ceases based on the full satisfaction of the reparation measures agreed between the parties. In that sense, cases closed with full compliance of the measures agreed in the FSAs are considered successful experiences of using the friendly solutions mechanism.
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Uruguay
The “Under Supervision” category includes the petitions and cases in which the Commission has approved and published friendly settlement agreements that are still in the process of being implemented. In that sense, the following matters are included in this category:
In the files listed below you can access the detail on the friendly settlement agreements that remain under compliance monitoring by the IACHR.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights makes efforts to provide clear and comprehensive information on the progress in the implementation of friendly settlement agreements and for this purpose it conducts an annual review of the published friendly settlement agreements that are still in the implementation phase through its Annual Report. In this section the information on petitions and cases under supervision of implementation of agreements is accessible, which contains the detail of the analysis carried out by the IACHR in past years.
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Colombia
Ecuador
reports: 27
Guatemala
Honduras
Paraguay