OEA/Ser.L/V/II.98
doc. 6 rev.
13 April 1998
Original: Spanish

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION
 ON HUMAN RIGHTS 1997


TABLE OF CONTENTS 

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

CHAPTER I  ORIGIN AND LEGAL BASES OF THE IACHR

 

CHAPTER II  COMMISSION ACTIVITIES

 

CHAPTER III  THE PETITIONS SYSTEM AND INDIVIDUAL CASES

 

1.   INTRODUCTION

 

2.   PETITIONS AND CASES BEFORE THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION
      ON HUMAN RIGHTS

 

A.   Precautionary measures granted or extended by

       the Commission in 1997

 

B.  Petitions and cases declared admissible  

a.       Report Nº 7/98 Emiliano Castro Tortrino,

Case 11.597 (Argentina)

b.       Report Nº 33/97 Newton Coutinho Mendes,

Case 11.405 (Brazil)

c.       Report Nº 17/98 Aluísio Cavalcanti Júnior y otros,

Cases 11.286; 11.406; 11.407; 11.412;

11.413; 11.414; 11.415; 11.416 y 11.417 (Brazil)

d.       Report Nº 18/98 Edson Damiao Calixto y Roselindo

Borges Senado, Cases 11.285 y 11.290 (Brazil)

e.       Report Nº 19/98 Ovelário Tames,

Case 11.516 (Brazil)

f.        Report Nº 14/98 Ruth Garcés Valladares,

Case 11.778 (Ecuador)

g.       Report Nº 53/97 Emilio Tec Pop,

Case 11.312 (Guatemala)

h.       Report Nº 22/98 Francisco Guarcas Cipriano,

Case 11.275 (Guatemala)

i.        Report Nº 21/98 José Sucunú Panjoj,

Case 11.435 (Guatemala)

j.        Report Nº 28/98 María Eugenia de Sierra,

Case  11.625 (Guatemala)

k.       Report Nº 46/97 Walter Humberto Vásquez,

Case 11.166 (Perú)

l.        Report Nº 20/98 Baruch Ivcher Bronstein,

Case 11.762 (Perú)

m.       Report Nº 16/98 Narciso González,

Case  11.324 (Dominican Republic)

 

C.            Petitions and cases declared inadmissible

a.       Report Nº 6/98 Ernesto Máximo Rodríguez,

Case 10.382 (Argentina)

b.       Report Nº 8/98 Carlos García Saccone,

Case 11.671 (Argentina)

c.       Report Nº 34/97 Jorge Enrique Benavides,

Petition (Colombia)

d.       Report Nº 9/98 Luis Humberto Correa Mena,

Partido Acción Nacional (PAN),

Case 11.537 (Mexico)

e.       Report Nº 47/97 Tabacalera Boquerón S.A.,

Petition (Paraguay)

 

D.            Friendly settlement

a.      Report Nº 31/97 Paulo C. Guardatti,

Case 11.217 (Argentina)

 

E.            Reports on the merits

a.       Report Nº 2/97 Jorge Luis Bronstein y otros

Cases 11.205, 11.236, 11.238, 11239, 11.242,

11.243, 11.244, 11.247, 11.248, 11.249, 11.251,

11.254, 11.255, 11.257, 11.258, 11.261, 11.263,

11.305, 11.320, 11.326, 11.330, 11.499

y 11.504 (Argentina)

b.       Report Nº 30/97 Gustavo Carranza,

Case 10.087 (Argentina)

c.       Report Nº 55/97 Juan Carlos Abella,

Case 11.137 (Argentina)

d.       Report Nº 24/98 Joao Canuto de Oliveira,

Case 11.287 (Brazil)

e.       Report Nº4/98 Ul Moscue y Coicue,

Case 9853 (Colombia)

f.        Report Nº 5/98 Alvaro Moreno Moreno

Case 11.019 (Colombia)

g.       Report Nº 26/97 Arturo Ribón Avila,

Case 11.142 (Colombia)

h.       Report Nº 3/98 Tarcisio Medina Charry

Case 11.221 (Colombia)

i.        Report Nº 25/98 Alfonso René Chanfeau Orayce y otros,

Cases 11.505; 11.532; 11.541; 11.546;

11.549; 11.569; 11.572; 11.573; 11.583;

11.585; 11.595; 11.652; 11.655; 11.657;

11.675 y 11.705 (Chile)

j.        Report Nº 1/97 Manuel García Franco,

Case 10.258 (Ecuador)

k.       Report Nº 57/96 William Andrews,

Case 11.139 (United States)

l.        Report Nº 11/98 Samuel de la Cruz Gómez,

Case 10.606 (Guatemala)

m.      Report Nº 48/97 Severiano y Hermelindo Santiz Gómez,Sebastián Santiz López "EJIDO MORELIA",

Case 11.411 (Mexico)

n.       Report Nº 49/97 Tomás Porfirio Rondin,

"AGUAS BLANCAS" Case 11.520 (Mexico)

o.       Report Nº 52/97 Arges Sequeira Mangas,

Case 11.218 (Nicaragua)

p.       Report Nº 41/97 Estiles Ruíz Dávila,

Case 10.491 (Peru)

q.       Report Nº 42/97 Angel Escobar Jurado,

Case 10.521 (Peru)

r.        Report Nº 38/97 Hugo Bustíos Saavedra,

Case 10.548 (Peru)

s.       Report Nº 43/97 Héctor Pérez Salazar,

Case 10.562 (Peru)

t.       Report Nº 40/97 Camilo Alarcón y Otros,

Case 10.941; 10.942; 10.944 y 10.945 (Peru)

u.       Report Nº39/97 Martín Javier Roca Casas,

Case 11.233 (Peru)

v.       Report Nº 35/96 Luis Lizardo Cabrera,

Case 10.832 (Dominican Republic)

w.      Report Nº 49/96 Eleazar Ramón Mavares,

Case 11.068 (Venezuela)  

F.         Filed cases

 

3.         PETITIONS AND CASES BEFORE THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF
            HUMAN RIGHTS

 

CHAPTER IV   INTER-AMERICAN PROGRAM OF PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

 

CHAPTER V   HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENTS IN THE REGION

 

1.       Cuba

2.       Guatemala

3.       Haiti

4.       Peru

 

CHAPTER VI   SPECIAL STUDIES

 

1.        Report of the Inter-American Commission

          on Human Rights on the Status of Women

          in the Americas

 

2.        Progress Report on the Situation

          of Migrant Workers and their

          Families in the Hemisphere

 

CHAPTER VII   RECOMMENDATIONS TO MEMBER STATES IN AREAS IN WHICH STEPS NEED TO BE TAKEN TOWARDS FULL OBSERVANCE OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS SET FORTH IN THE AMERICAN DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF MAN AND THE AMERICAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

 

 

ANNEXES

 

 

PRESS COMMUNIQUES

 

SPEECHES OF THE IACHR