ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF NOVEMBER 22, 2010 REQUEST FOR PROVISIONAL MEASURES PRESENTED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS REGARDING COLOMBIA IN THE MATTER OF THE INTER-ECCLESIAL COMMISSION ON JUSTICE AND PEACE HAVING SEEN: 1. The brief of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter the “Inter-American Commission” or the “Commission”) of April 14, 2010, with attachments, by which it presented before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter the “Inter-American Court,” the “Court,” or the “Tribunal”) a request for provisional measures pursuant to Article 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter the “American Convention” or the “Convention”) and Rule 27 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court1 (hereinafter the “Rules of Procedure”), with the objective of ordering the Republic of Colombia (hereinafter the “State” or “Colombia”) to adopt, without delay, provisional measures aimed at protecting the lives and right to humane treatment of the members of the Inter-Ecclesial Commission on Justice and Peace (hereinafter the “ICJP”). 2. The facts alleged by the Commission as grounds for its request for provisional measures, namely: a) The ICJP is a non-governmental organization that “assists local initiatives in mestizo, indigenous, and other Afro-Colombian communities and organizations seeking to exercise their rights through non-violent means in areas of armed conflict.” The organization’s primary place of business is in Bogotá, but its teams also maintain a presence in the departments of Cauca, Putumayo, Valle, Meta, and Sucre. “The majority of groups that the InterEcclesial Commission on Justice and Peace represents are beneficiaries of precautionary or provisional measures”; b) The information the ICJP provided to the Inter-American Commission in 2003 when requesting precautionary measures indicated that the ICJP members had been the target of “threats, surveillance, accusations, detentions, and instances of breaking and entering constantly since 1997,” and that these acquired greater intensity “since the first half of 2003,” along with “stigmatizing smear campaigns on the part of civilian and military authorities.” The ICJP has assumed the legal representation of presumed victims in various legal actions of national importance, thereby giving rise to “a situation that raises their level of risk and vulnerability”; 1 Rules of Procedure of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Approved by the Court in its LXXXV Regular Session held on November 16 to 28, 2009.