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D. Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR 35. Complete compliance with the decisions of the Inter-American Commission is essential for ensuring that human rights have full force in the OAS member states, and for helping to strengthen the Inter-American system for the protection of human rights. For that purpose, the IACHR, in this section, analyzes the status of compliance with the recommendations in the reports adopted by the Commission in the last twelve years. 36. On several occasions the OAS General Assembly has encouraged Member States to follow-up on the recommendations of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, as it did in its resolution AG/RES. 2672 (XLI-O/11), “Observations and Recommendations on the Annual Report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights,” (operative paragraph 3.b). Likewise, in its resolution AG/RES. 2675 (XLI-O/11), “Strengthening of Human Rights Systems pursuant to the mandates arising from the Summits of the Americas,” instructed the Permanent Council to continue to consider ways to promote the follow-up of the recommendations of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights by Member states of the Organization (operative paragraph 3.d). 37. Both the Convention (Article 41) and the Statute of the Commission (Article 18) explicitly grant the IACHR the authority to request information from the member states and to produce such reports and recommendations as it considers advisable. Specifically, Article 48 of the IACHR Rules of Procedure provides the following: 1. Once the Commission has published a report on a friendly settlement or on the merits in which it has made recommendations, it may adopt the follow-up measures it deems appropriate, such as requesting information from the parties and holding hearings in order to verify compliance with friendly settlement agreements and its recommendations. 2. The Commission shall report on progress in complying with those agreements and recommendations as it deems appropriate. 38. In compliance with its powers under the Convention and the Statute and with the above-cited resolutions, and pursuant to Article 48 of the Rules of Procedure, the IACHR requested information from the States on compliance with the recommendations made in the reports published on individual cases included in its annual reports from 2000 through 2012. 39. The table the Commission is presenting includes the status of compliance with the recommendations made by the IACHR in the cases that have been decided and published in the last eleven years. The IACHR notes that compliance with different recommendations is meant to be successive and not immediate and that some recommendations require a reasonable time to be fully implemented. The table, therefore, presents the current status of compliance, which the Commission acknowledges as being a dynamic process that may evolve continuously. From that perspective, the Commission evaluates whether or not compliance with its recommendations is complete and not whether it has been started. 75 40. The three categories included in the table are the following: a. Total compliance (those cases in which the state has fully complied with all the recommendations made by the IACHR. Having regard to the principles of effectiveness and fully observed those recommendations where the state has begun and satisfactorily completed the procedures for compliance); b. Partial compliance (those cases in which the state has partially observed the recommendations made by the IACHR either by having complied with only one or some of them or through incomplete compliance with all of them); c. Compliance pending (those cases in which the IACHR considers that there has been no compliance with the recommendations because no steps have been taken in that direction; because the state has explicitly indicated that it will not comply with the recommendations made; or because the state has not reported to the IACHR and the Commission has no information from other sources that would suggest otherwise). CASE TOTAL PARTIAL PENDING COMPLIANCE COMPLIANCE COMPLIANCE Case 11.307, Report No. 103/01, María Merciadri X de Morini (Argentina)1 Case 11.804, Report No. 91/03, Juan Ángel Greco X (Argentina) Case 12.080, Report No. 102/05, Sergio Schiavini X and María Teresa Schnack (Argentina) Case 12.298, Report No. 81/08 Fernando Giovanelli X (Argentina) Case 12.159, Report No. 79/09, Gabriel Egisto X Santillán Reigas (Argentina) Case 11.732, Report No. 83/09, Horacio Aníbal X Schillizzi (Argentina) Case 11.758, Report No. 15/10, Rodolfo Correa X Belisle (Argentina) Case 11.796, Report No. 16/10, Mario Humberto X Gomez Yardez (Argentina) 2 Case 12.536, Report No. 17/10, Raquel Natalia X Lagunas and Sergio Antonio Sorbellini (Argentina) Petition 242-03, Report No. 160/10, Inocencia Luca X Pogoraro (Argentina) Petition 4554-02, Report No. 161/10, Valerio X Castillo Báez (Argentina) Petition 2829-02, Report No. 19/11, Inocencio X Rodríguez (Argentina) Petition 11.708, Report No. 20/11, Aníbal Acosta and L. Hirsch (Argentina) X 1 See IACHR, Annual Report 2008, Chapter III, Section D: Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR, paras. 38-40. 2 See IACHR, Annual Report 2005, Chapter III, Section D: Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR, paras. 159-164. 76 CASE TOTAL PARTIAL PENDING COMPLIANCE COMPLIANCE COMPLIANCE Petition 11.833, Report No. 21/11, Ricardo Monterisi (Argentina)3 X Petition 12.532, Report No. 84/11, Penitencierías de Mendoza (Argentina) X Petition 12.306, Report No. 85/11, Juan Carlos de X la Torre (Argentina) Petition 11.670, Report No. 168/11, Menéndez and Caride (Argentina) X Case 11.395, Report No. 73/11, Juan José López X (Argentina) Cases 12.067, 12.068 and 12.086, Report No. 48/01, Michael Edwards, Omar Hall, Brian Schroe X Jeronimo Bowleg (Bahamas) Case 12.265, Report 78/07 Chad Roger X Goodman (Bahamas) Case 12.513, Report 79/07 Prince Pinder X (Bahamas) Case 12.053, Report No. 40/04, May Indigenous Community of the Toledo District X (Belize) Case 12.475, Report No. 97/05, Alfredo Díaz Bustos X (Bolivia) Case 12.516, Report No. 98/05, Raúl Zavala Málaga X and Jorge Pacheco Rondón (Bolivia)4 Petition No. 269-05, Report No. 82/07, Miguel Angel Moncada Osorio and James David Rocha X Terraza (Bolivia)5 Petition No. 788-06, Report No. 70/07, Víctor Hugo X Arce Chávez (Bolivia)6 Case 12.051, Report No. 54/01, Maria da Penha Maia Fernandes (Brazil) X Cases 11.286, 11.406, 11.407, 11.412, 11.413, 11.415, 11.416 and 11.417, Report No. 55/01, X Aluísio Cavalcante et al.(Brazil) Case 11.517, Report No. 23/02, Diniz Bento da Silva (Brazil) X Case 10.301, Report No. 40/03, Parque São Lucas X (Brazil) 3 See IACHR, Annual Report 2012, Chapter III, Section D: Status of compliance with the recommedations of the IACHR, paras. 180-183. 4 See IACHR, Annual Report 2009, Chapter III, Section D: Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR, paras. 109-114. 5 See IACHR, Annual Report 2009, Chapter III, Section D: Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR, paras. 115-19. 6 See IACHR, Annual Report 2009, Chapter III, Section D: Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR, paras. 120-124. 77 CASE TOTAL PARTIAL PENDING COMPLIANCE COMPLIANCE COMPLIANCE Case 11.289, Report No. 95/03, José Pereira (Brazil) X Case 11.634, Report No. 33/04, Jailton Neri da Fonseca (Brazil) X Cases 12.426 and 12.427, Report No. 43/06, Raniê Silva Cruz, Eduardo Rocha da Silva and Raimundo X Nonato Conceição Filho (Brazil)7 Case 12.001, Report No. 66/06, Simone André X Diniz (Brazil) Case 12.019, Report No. 35/08 Antonio Ferreira X Braga (Brazil) Case 12.310, Report No. 25/09 Segastião Camargo X Filho (Brazil) Case 12.440, Report No. 26/09 Wallace de Almeida X (Brazil) Case 12.308, Report No. 37/10, Manoel Leal de X Oliveira (Brazil) Case 12.586, Report No. 78/11, John Doe (Canada) X Case 11.771, Report No. 61/01, Samuel Alfonso X Catalán Lincoleo (Chile) Case 11.715, Report No. 32/02, Juan Manuel X Contreras San Martín et al. (Chile)8 Case 12.046, Report No. 33/02, Mónica Carabantes X Galleguillos (Chile)9 Case 11.725, Report No. 139/99, Carmelo Soria X Espinoza (Chile) Petition 4617/02, Report No. 30/04, Mercedes X Julia Huenteao Beroiza et al. (Chile) Case 12.142, Report No. 90/05, Alejandra Marcela X Matus Acuña et al. (Chile)10 Case 12.337, Report No. 80/09, Marcela Andra 11 X Valdés Díaz (Chile) Petition 490-03, Report No. 81/09 ¨X¨(Chile)12 X Case 12.469, Report No. 56/10, Margarita Barberia X Miranda (Chile) 7 See IACHR, Annual Report 2008, Chapter III, Section D: Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR, paras. 162-175. 8 See IACHR, Annual Report 2007, Chapter III, Section D: Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR, paras. 187-190. 9 See IACHR, Annual Report 2007, Chapter III, Section D: Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR, paras. 191-194. 10 See IACHR, Annual Report 2008, Chapter III, Section D: Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR, paras. 216-224. 11 See IACHR, Annual Report 2010, Chapter III, Section D: Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR, paras. 298-302. 12 See IACHR, Annual Report 2010, Chapter III, Section D: Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR. 78 CASE TOTAL PARTIAL PENDING COMPLIANCE COMPLIANCE COMPLIANCE Case 12.281, Report No.