OEA/Ser.L/V/II.102
Doc. 6 rev.
April 16, 1999
Original:  Spanish

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 1998

    CHAPTER I ORIGIN AND LEGAL BASES OF THE IACHR

1.  Origin and Legal Bases of the IACHR
2.  Relations between the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
3.  Joint meetings of the Inter-American Court and The Inter-American Commission on Human Right
4.  Relations with specialized organizations of the OAS
5.  Relations with other organizations associated with human rights

1.       MEETINGS HELD BY THE IACHR IN 1998

A.    Ninety-eighth regular session
B.    Ninety-ninth special session
C.    One hundredth regular session
D.    One hundredth first special session
E.    Telephone conference

2.    SPECIAL ON-SITE VISITS CONDUCTED BY THE IACHR

A.    Visit to California
B.    Visit to Guatemala
C.    Visit to Peru
D.    Special visits

3.    COMMISSION ACTIVITIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF
       HUMAN RIGHTS

4.    SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS

5.    SPECIAL REPORT ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

6.    OTHER ACTIVITIES

7.    TWENTY-EIGHT REGULAR SESSION OF THE OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

    CHAPTER III THE PETITIONS SYSTEM AND INDIVIDUAL CASE

1.    Introduction

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

A.    Precautionary measures granted or extended by the Commission in 1998

B.    Petitions and cases declared admissible

• Report Nº 29/98 Walter David Bulacio,
  Case 11.752 (Argentina)
• Report Nº 39/98 Hector Hugo Boleso,
  Case 11.774 (Argentina)
• Report Nº 77/98 Corumbiara,
  Case 11.556 (Brazil)
• Report Nº 78/98 Favela Nova Brasilia,
  Case 11.566 (Brazil)
• Report Nº 84/98 Carlos Prada and Evelio Bolaño Castro,
  Case 11.710 (Colombia)
• Report Nº 30/99 César Chaparro Nivia y
  Vladimir Hincapié Galeano, Case 11.026 (Colombia)
• Report Nº 30/98 Trevor Fisher,
  Case 11.643 (Commonwealth of the Bahamas)
• Report Nº 31/98 Juan Pablo Olmedo Bustos et al,
  Case 11.803 (Chile)
• Report Nº 95/98 Andrés Aylwin et al,
  Case 11.863 (Chile)
• Report Nº 27/99 Ramón Mauricio García-Prieto Giralt,
  Case 11.697 (El Salvador)
• Report Nº 32/99 Diego Velásquez Soc and Matías Velásquez,
  Case 11.677 (Guatemala)
• Report Nº 33/99 Masacre de Plan de Sánchez,
  Case 11.763 (Guatemala)
• Report Nº 88/98 Milton Montique,
  Cases 11.846 and11.847 (Jamaica)
• Report Nº 89/98 Leroy Lamey,
  Case 11.826 (Jamaica)
• Report Nº 90/98 Kevin Mykoo,
  Case 11.843 (Jamaica)
• Report Nº 28/99 Whitley Dixon,
  Case 11.884 (Jamaica)
• Report Nº 33/98 Clemente Ayala Torres et al,
  Case 10.545 (Mexico)
• Report Nº 34/98 Loren L. Riebe Star et al,
  Case 11.610 (Mexico)
• Report Nº 35/98 Tribunal Constitucional,
  Case 11.760 (Peru)
• Report Nº 53/98 Carlos Molero Coca,
  Case 11.182 (Peru)
• Report Nº 54/98 Leonor La Rosa Bustamante,
  Case 11.756 (Peru)
• Report Nº 55/98 Pedro Huilca Tecse,
  Case 11.768 (Peru)
• Report Nº 56/98 Lori Berenson,
  Case 11.876 (Peru)
• Report Nº 42/99 La Cantuta,
  Case 11.045 (Peru)
• Report Nº 43/99 Alan García Pérez,
  Case 11.688 (Peru)
• Report Nº 37/98 Anthony Briggs,
  Case 11.815 (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Report Nº 43/98 Haniff Hilaire,
  Case 11.816 (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Report Nº 44/98 Noel Anderson,
  Case 11.854 (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Report Nº 45/98 Anthony García,
  Case 11.855 (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Report Nº 91/98 Denny Baptiste,
  Case 11.840 (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Report Nº 92/98 Indravani Ramjattan Pamela,
  Case 11.837 (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Report Nº 35/99 Wilson Prince,
  Case 12.005 (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Report Nº 36/99 Mervin Edmond,
  Case 12.042 (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Report Nº 37/99 Martin Reid,
  Case 12.052 (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Report Nº 81/98 Reinaldo Figueredo Panchart,
  Case 11.298 (Venezuela)

C.    Petitions and cases declared inadmissible

• Report Nº 38/99 Víctor Saldaño,
  Petition (Argentina)
• Report Nº 39/99 Mevopal S.A.
  Petition (Argentina)
• Report Nº 85/98 Gilbert Bernard Little,
  Case 11.472 (Costa Rica)
• Report Nº 96/98 Peter Blaine,
  Case 11.827 (Jamaica)
• Report Nº 97/98 Neville Lewis,
  Case 11.825 (Jamaica)
• Report Nº 25/99 Steve Shaw, Desmond Taylor,
  Beresford Whyte, Silbert Daley, Deon McTaggart,
  Andrew Perkins and Everton Morrison,
  Cases 12.018, 12.022, 12.024, 12.025, 12.026,
  12.027 and 12.029 (Jamaica)
• Report Nº 32/98 Anselmo Ríos Aguilar,
  Case 11.507 (Mexico)
• Report Nº 24/99 Gabriel Lastra Pedrero y
  Adela Ortíz Catalá, Case 11.812 (Mexico)
• Report Nº 82/98 Gustavo A. Gómez López,
  Case 11.703 (Venezuela)
• Report Nº 87/98 Oscar Vila Masot,
  Case 11.216 (Venezuela)

D.    Friendly settlements

• Report Nº 45/99 Roison Mora Rubiano,
  Case 11.525 (Colombia)
• Report Nº 46/99 Faride Herrera Jaime,
  Oscar Iván Andrade Salcedo, Astrid Leonor Alvarez,
  Jaime, Gloria Beatríz Alvarez Jaime and Juan Felipe
  Rua Alvarez,
  Case 11.531 (Colombia)

E.    Reports on the merits

• Report Nº59 /99 Newton Coutinho Mendes et al,
  Case 11.405 (Brazil)
• Report Nº60/99 Ovelário Tames,
  Case 11.516 (Brazil)
• Report Nº 48/98 Carlos Alberto Marín Ramírez,
  Case 11.403 (Colombia)
• Report Nº 61/99 José Alexis Fuentes Guerrero et al,
  Case 11.519 (Colombia)
• Report Nº 62/99 Santos Mendivelso Coconubo,
  Case 11.540 (Colombia)
• Report Nº63 /99 Víctor Rosario Congo,
  Case 11.427 (Ecuador)
• Report Nº 64/99 Ruth del Rosario Garcés Valladares,
  Case 11.778 (Ecuador)
• Report Nº 65/99 Víctor Hernández Vásquez,
  Case 10.228 (El Salvador)
• Report Nº 1/99 Lucio Parada Cea et al,
  Case 10.480 (El Salvador)
• Report Nº 41/99 Menores detenidos,
  Case 11.491 (Honduras)
• Report Nº 1/98 Rolando Hernández Hernández,
  Case 11.543 (Mexico)
• Report Nº 2/99 Manuel Manríquez,
  Case 11.509 (Mexico)
• Report Nº 48/99 Clemente Ayala Torres et al,
  Case 10.545 (Mexico)
• Report Nº 49/99 Loren Laroye Riebe Star et al,
  Case 11.610 (Mexico)
• Report Nº 50/99 Héctor Félix Miranda,
  Case 11.739 (Mexico)
• Report Nº 19/99 Pastor Juscamaita Laura,
  Case 10.542 (Peru)
• Report Nº 20/99 Rodolfo Robles Espinoza e hijos,
  Case 11.317 (Peru)
• Report Nº 51/99 Anetro Castillo Pezo et al,
  Case 10.471 (Peru)
• Report Nº 52/99 Raúl Zevallos Loayza et al,
  Case 10.544 (Peru)
• Report Nº 53/99 David Palomino Morales et al,
  Case 10.551 (Peru)
• Report Nº 54/99 William León Laurente et al,
  Case 10.807 (Peru)
• Report Nº 55/99 Juan de la Cruz Núñez Santana et al,
  Case 10.815 (Peru)
• Report Nº 56/99 Eudalio Lorenzo Manrique et al,
  Case 10.824 (Peru)
• Report Nº 57/99 Romer Morales Zegarra et al,
  Case 10.827 (Peru)
• Report Nº 58/99 Anthony Briggs
  Case 11.815 (Trinidad and Tobago)

3.    Petitions and cases before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

A.    Provisional measures
B.    Contentious cases
C.   Advisory Opinion

    CHAPTER IV HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENTS IN THE REGION

1.    Cuba
2.    Haiti
3.    Paraguay

    CHAPTER V FOLLOW-UP OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS FORMULATED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN ITS REPORTS ON THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN MEMBER STATES

1.    Ecuador

1.    Report on the Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
2.    Progress Report on the situation of migrant workers and their families in the hemisphere
3.    Update report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of women
4.    Report of the Rapporteur on the rights of the child