Annual report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 2007

CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 

CHAPTER II: LEGAL BASES AND ACTIVITIES OF THE IACHR DURING 2007

A.    Legal bases, functions and powers

B.    The Commission’s sessions in 2007

1.    127th regular period of sessions (Washington, D.C.)
2.    128th regular period of sessions (Washington, D.C.)
3.    129th extraordinary period of sessions (Paraguay)
4.    130th regular period of sessions (Washington, D.C.)

C.    Visits

D.    Activities of the rapporteurships

1.    Rights of Indigenous Peoples
2.    Rights of Women
3.    Rights of Children
4.    Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty in the Americas
5.    Rights of Afro-Descendents and against Racial Discrimination
6.    Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families
7.    Unit for Human Rights Defenders

E.   Other events and activities

F.   Financial situation

G.   Activities of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in connection with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

H.   Thirty-seventh regular session of the OAS General Assembly

CHAPTER III: THE PETITION AND CASE SYSTEM

A.    Introduction

B.    Statistics

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

1.   Precautionary measures granted or extended by the IACHR in 2007
2.   Petitions declared admissible
3.   Petitions declared inadmissible
4.   Friendly settlements
5.   Reports on the merits

D.  Status of compliance with the recommendations of the IACHR

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

1.  Provisional measures
2.  Contentious cases before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

                  
CHAPTER IV: HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENTS IN THE REGION

Introduction

Colombia
Cuba
Haiti
Venezuela
  

ANNEXES

1. CURRENT STATE OF THE CONVENTIONS AND PROTOCOL ON HUMAN RIGHTS,
APPROVED WITHIN THE INTER-AMERICAN SYSTEM (PDF)

2. PRESS RELEASES

3. SPEECHES OF THE IACHR

4. OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTIONS

REPORT OF THE OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION