Annual Report 2013 - Table of Contents

INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

OEA/Ser.L/V/II. Doc. 50 31 December 2013 Original: Spanish

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 2013

GENERAL SECRETARIAT ORGANIZATION 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 3

Approved by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on December 31 2013 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 2013

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume I

INTRODUCTION...... 1

A. Origen, legal bases, structure, purposes and mandates...... 1 B. Status of ratification of inter-American instruments...... 6 C. 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.)...... 13 2. 148th regular period of sessions (Washington, D.C.)...... 15 3. 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...... 19 2. Requests for provisional measures...... 25 3. Appearance and participation in public and private hearings...... 25 4. Presentation of written observations to State reports in cases under supervision on compliance...... 26 5. 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...... 39 B. 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. 5/13 Petition 273-05 Nam Qom indigenous community of the Qom (Toba) people (Argentina)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

vii Petitions declared inadmissible

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friendly Settlements

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reports on the Merits

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

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

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

Archival decisions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Report No. 101/13 Petition 11.169 Carlos 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...... 331 2. Office of the Rapporteur on the Rights of Women...... 333 3. Office of the Rapporteur on Rights of Migrants...... 335 4. Office of the Rapporteur on the Rights of the Child...... 338 5. Office of the Rapporteur for Human Rights Defenders...... 341 6. Office of the Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty in the Americas...... 343 7. Office of the Rapporteur on the Afro-Descendants and against Racial Discrimination...... 345 8. Unit for the Rights of Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Trans, Bisexual, and Intersex Persons...... 347 9. 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...... 392 Honduras...... 431 Venezuela...... 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...... 607 2. Specific Funds...... 608

C. Administrative advances...... 611

1. Technology and systems units...... 611 2. 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 Americas1

 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

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