17 DECIDES: 1. To request the State to maintain the provisional measures and adopt such other measures as may be necessary to protect the life and physical integrity of Sister Noemy Palencia (as soon as she returns to Meta Department), of Islena Rey, and of Mariela de Giraldo and her two minor daughters, Sara and Natalia Giraldo. 2. To reiterate the request made to the State to investigate the facts denounced which gave rise to the adoption of these measures in order to identify those responsible for such acts and, where appropriate, punish them, and to inform the Inter-American Court of Human Rights about said investigation. 3. To reiterate the request made to the State to inform about the steps taken in order to reopen the Comité Cívico por los Derechos Humanos del Meta (Meta Department Human Rights Civic Committee). 4. To reiterate the request made to the State so that the beneficiaries of the provisional measures be allowed to take part in the planning and implementation thereof and, in general, to keep them informed about the progress regarding the compliance with the measures ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. 5. To request the State to submit its forty-seventh report on the compliance with the measures adopted no later than January 31, 2007. 6. To request the State to continue informing the Inter-American Court of Human Rights every two months as from the date on which the report of the State required in the foregoing operative paragraph has been submitted, and to request the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the beneficiaries of these measures or the representatives thereof to submit their observations on the report of the State required in the foregoing operative paragraph, as well as on the twomonthly reports of the State, within the term of six and four weeks respectively of the date on which they have been submitted. 7. To request the Secretariat to serve notice of this Order to the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights, to the representative of the beneficiaries of these measures, and to the State. Sergio García-Ramírez President Alirio Abreu-Burelli Cecilia Medina-Quiroga Antônio A. Cançado Trindade Manuel E. Ventura-Robles