Research and Communication Team (hereinafter “ERIC”) “of [50] inhabitants of El Progreso,
where this organization has its offices, and of Tela.”
15.
The Commission “appreciate[d] that the State had complied with the official
publication [of the judgment…].” However, it indicated that “it does not have sufficient
elements to state its position in relation to the publication in a national newspaper with
widespread circulation. In order to resolve this dispute, [it considered] pertinent that the
Inter-American Court […] ask the State to provide information on the criteria used to
choose La Tribuna, as well as the necessary documentation to prove that this medium does,
in fact, have widespread national circulation.”
16.
The information provided by the parties reveals that the State has complied, within
the six-month period established in the judgment (supra having seen paragraph 1), with its
obligation to publish certain parts of the judgment in its Official Gazette. However, the
elements provided by the representatives do not reveal that La Tribuna is not a national
newspaper, so that the Court finds that the State has also complied with the obligation to
publish certain paragraphs of the judgment in a newspaper with widespread national
circulation. Consequently, the State has complied with the tenth operative paragraph of the
judgment.
D.
Obligation to organize a public act of acknowledgement of international
responsibility (eleventh operative paragraph of the judgment)
17.
The State advised that, on June 10, 2010, it had organized a “Public act of
acknowledgment of international responsibility to restore the memory of the
environmentalist, Blanca Jeannette Kawas Fernández,” and forwarded documentary
evidence in support of this information to the Court.9
18.
The representatives indicated that the next of kin of Mrs. Kawas Fernández had
“expressed their agreement with the ceremony held on June 10, 2010.”
19.
The Commission observed that the eleventh operative paragraph of the judgment
“has been complied with.”
20.
According to the information provided by the parties, the State has complied with the
obligation to organize a public act of acknowledgment of international responsibility, in
accordance with the eleventh operative paragraph of the judgment (supra having seen
paragraph 1).
E.
Obligation to erect a monument in memory of Blanca Jeannette Kawas
Fernández, and to put up signs in the national park named after her (twelfth
operative paragraph twelve), and obligation to conduct a national awarenessraising campaign on the importance of the work of environmentalists in Honduras
and their contribution to the defense of human rights (fourteenth operative
paragraph of the judgment)
9
Cf. Report of the Secretariat of State for the Interior and Population on the “Public act of
acknowledgement of international responsibility to restore the memory of the environmentalist, Blanca Jeannette
Kawas Fernández in compliance with the judgment delivered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights against
the State of Honduras” (file of monitoring compliance, tome I, folios 223 to 229).
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