report that the Commission adopts on the merits of the case, in order to determine whether they constitute violations of the American Convention. 2. Timeliness in lodging the petition 28. The American Convention establishes that for a petition to be admissible for the Commission, it is required that it be lodged within six months from the date on which the alleged victim has been notified of the definitive judgment. In the complaint under analysis, the IACHR has ruled the application of exceptions to the exhaustion of domestic remedies in Article 46(2)(c) of the American Convention. In this regard, Article 32 of the Regulations of the Commission establishes that in cases where exceptions to the prior exhaustion of domestic remedies are applicable, the petition should be lodged within a reasonable period of time in the view of the Commission. Therefore, the Commission should consider the date on which the alleged violation of rights took place and the circumstances of each case. 29. In this case, the petition was lodged on October 27, 2004, and the material facts of the complaint are said to have taken place as of June 2002. So, taking into account the context and characteristics of this case, as well as the fact that the investigation is still pending, the Commission considers that the petition was lodged within a reasonable period of time and that the requirement for admissibility with respect to the timeliness of its being lodged is satisfied. 3. Duplication of procedure and cosa juzgada 30. It does not appear from the record that the subject matter of the petition is pending before any other international proceeding, nor that it reproduces a petition already examined by this or any other international organization. Therefore, the requirements established in Articles 46(1)(c) and 47(d) of the Convention have been satisfied. 4. Characterization of the facts alleged 31. The Commission considers that the allegations of the petitioner with respect to the alleged violation of the right to humane treatment, fair trial, freedom of association, movement and residence, private property, and judicial protection may constitute violations of rights protected by Articles 5(1), 8(1), 16, 19, 21(1), 21(2), 22(1), and 25, taken in relation to Article 1(1) of the American Convention, in the light of the State’s obligation to respect rights, and the actions and omissions of its agents with respect to actions committed by third parties. There is no evidence that the complaint submitted is groundless or out of order, consequently the Commission considers that the requirements of Article 47(b) and (c) of the American Convention are satisfied. Also, given the allegations of the petitioner with respect to the rights affected to Mrs. Rúa’s daughters because of the internal displacement the Commission considers that the claim for the violation of article 19 meets the requirements of the Convention. 32. With regard to the petitioners’ arguments regarding the alleged violation of Maria Eugenia Rúa Figueroa’s political rights under Article 23 of the American Convention, the Commission considers that that aspect of the complaint is not sufficiently grounded in the facts of the complaint, given the nature of the association to which she belonged. 15 IV. CONCLUSIONS 33. The Commission concludes that it is competent to examine the complaints lodged by the petitioner with respect to the alleged violation of Articles 5(1), 8(1), 16, 19, 21(1), 15 Under Article 8 of Law 745 (2002) and its regulations, Decree 2350 (2003), the Communal Action Committee is a non-profit, solidarity-based civic, social, and community social-management organization. It has legal personality and its own assets and is formed voluntarily by the residents of a place who join forces and resources to achieve integral and sustainable development, based on the exercise of participatory democracy in community-development management. 6