5 THEREFORE: THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, in exercise of the authority conferred on it by Article 63.2 of the American Convention on Human Rights and Article 25 of its Rules of Procedure, DECIDES: 1. To call upon the State of Colombia, in compliance with the orders of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights and in accordance with new circumstances that have arisen in the case: a. to maintain the provisional measures ordered in favor of José Daniel Alvarez, Nidia Linores Ascanio, Gladys López, Yanette Bautista, María Helena Saldarriaga, Piedad Martín, María Eugenia López, Adriana Diosa, Astrid Manrique, Faride Ascanio, Carmen Barrera, Evidalia Chacón, José Publio Bautista, Nelly María Ascanio, Ayda Mile Ascanio, Miriam Rosas Ascanio, Javier Alvarez, Erik A. Arellano Bautista, Daniel Prado, Estela de Prado, Camilla Alejandra Prado, Lina Prado, Luz Elsia Almanza, Hilda Rosario Jiménez, Ramón Rangel, Robinson Amador, Yamel López, Emely Pérez, Yolanda Salamanca, Rosa Tulia Bolaños, Rocío Campos, Alexánder Rodríguez, Ángel Quintero, Claudia Patricia Monsalve, Marta Soto, Silvia Quintero, Gloria Herney Galíndez, Gladys Ávila, Rocío Bautista and María Eugenia Cárdenas and her next of kin; and b. to adopt, forthwith, whatever measures are necessary to ensure that the persons who work in or visit the offices of the Association of Relatives of Detainees-Disappeared Persons of Colombia (ASFADDES) can perform their functions or conduct their business without danger to their lives and physical integrity. 2. To call upon the State of Colombia to adopt the necessary measures to ensure the right to life and physical integrity of the next of kin of Francisco García; to this end, it requests the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to submit to the State of Colombia a list of the persons in favor of whom the State must adopt the said measures of protection, within 15 days of being notified of this order. 3. To call upon the State of Colombia to investigate the facts described by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that gave rise to the adoption of these measures, in order to obtain effective results leading to the identification of those responsible and their punishment. The State must assume this obligation to investigate, together with that of preventing and punishing, as a legal obligation and not as a mere formality. 4. To request the State of Colombia to allow the petitioners to take part in the planning and implementation of these measures and that, in general, it maintain them informed about progress in the measures ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. 5. To call on the State of Colombia to expand its periodical reports in order to include information on the provisional measures adopted in compliance with this