ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS * OF MAY 28, 2014 PROVISIONAL MEASURES REGARDING COLOMBIA MATTER OF DANILO RUEDA HAVING SEEN: 1. The brief of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Commission” or “the Commission”) of April 23, 2014, wherein it filed a request for provisional measures, pursuant to Articles 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter “the American Convention” or “the Convention”) and Article 27 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court (hereinafter “the Rules of Procedure”), before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Court,” “the Court,” or “the Tribunal”), in order to require the Republic of Colombia (hereinafter “Colombia” or “the State”) to “protect the life and personal integrity of human rights defender Danilo Rueda,” member and Director of the Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission, given the various events that it reports took place. The Commission requested the Court to “urgently issue provisional measures” in favor of said person, and requested, “the President in office […] of the Court who has the power to issue, exceptionally, urgent measures established in Articles 2[7].6 of the Rules of Procedure.” Moreover, the brief of April 26, 2014, wherein the Inter-American Commission reported that on April 24, 2014, “the place where Mr. Danilo Rueda lives and where part of his family works, […] had been attacked with pellets that hit the security panes.” As such, it “reiterat[ed] its request to implement the procedure established in Article 27(6) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court and urgent measures be ordered to protect the life and personal integrity of Mr. Danilo Rueda, in order to, pursuant to the Rules of Procedure, assure the effectiveness of the provisional measures that the Court will eventually ratify.” 2. The facts that, pursuant to the Commission, form the grounds for the request for provisional measures: a) Mr. Danilo Rueda “is a human rights defender and founding member of the CIJP (for its acronym in Spanish) [Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission], which has represented groups of persons that have been the beneficiaries of precautionary and provisional measures, and has also represented victims in the Case of the Afro-Descendant Communities displaced from the Cacarica River Basin (Operation Genesis) [,] and is also part of the ‘Colombians for Peace Movement’[…]. This situation has notably increased the existent risk for work * Judge Humberto Antonio Sierra Porto excused himself from the hearing and deliberation of this matter and the Plenary of the Court accepted said excusal.