32. As regards the exhaustion of domestic remedies, the petitioners argue different situations: (a) Legal actions filed by the alleged victims in the administrative and judicial forums, from 1994 to 2004, for workplace accidents and death of divers; these are at different procedural stages without any response32, which constitutes an unwarranted delay in resolving the complaints. 32 The following persons filed administrative and judicial claims: (1) Carcoth Padmoe Miller; on August 8, 1994, he filed a claim for compensation with the Office of Occupational Health and Safety of the Municipality of the Distrito Central. (2) Crescencio Cooper Jems; on November 8, 2003, he filed an administrative claim in Puerto Lempira with the Secretariat of State in the offices of Labor and Social Security. (3) Willy Gómez Pastor; on October 1, 2003, he filed a claim with the Secretariat of Labor in Puerto Lempira. (4) Roberto Flores Esteban; on November 17, 2003, he filed a claim for compensation. (5) Saipon Richard Toledo; on March 29, 2004, the record of the hearing was drawn up attesting to the appearance of Mr. Anastacio Richard Bais, father of the deceased, who filed the claim for fatal occupational accident with the Secretariat of Labor in Puerto Lempira. (6) Efraín Rosales Kirrinton; on February 12, 2004, he went before the Secretariat of Labor in Puerto Lempira to file a claim for compensation due to occupational accident. (7) Daniel Dereck Thomas; on April 28, 2004, he appeared before the Secretariat of Labor in Puerto Lempira to file a claim for compensation for occupational accident. (8) Eran Herrera Paulisto; on November 5, 2002, Sofía Flores Paulisto filed a labor claim for the death of Mr. Herrera Paulisto. (9) Evecleto Londres Yumida; on October 14, 2004, he signed a certificate of agreement (acta de compromiso) with diver intermediary Erbacio Martínez in Puerto Lempira, who undertook to pay, in two parts, the sum of 2,000.00 lempiras under the labor law to Mr. Londres Yumida. The record does not reflect that said agreement was carried out. (10) David Esteban Bradley; he went before the Secretariat of Labor in Puerto Lempira, at a date uncertain, to request the payment of compensation for permanent disability due to an occupational accident. (11) Amisterio Bans Valeriano; on December 13, 2000, he filed a claim with the Secretariat of Labor in La Ceiba. (12) José Martínez López; Mr. José Marín (diver intermediary) reported the facts of the accident to the Justice of the Peace of Brus Laguna on November 28, 2003, yet it has not been investigated. (13) Opario Lemoth Morris; on May 2, 2001, the employer, through the Juzgado de Letras of Puerto Lempira, paid 2,000 lempiras in funeral costs. (14) Ex Dereck Claros; on October 22, 1997, he filed a labor action before the Juzgado de Letras Departamental of Puerto Lempira for payment of compensation for an occupational accident with permanent partial disability and temporary disability. (15) Ralph Valderramos Álvarez; on June 10, 1996, he filed a labor claim before the General Bureau of Social Security of the Ministry of Labor in Roatán, Islas de Bahía; it did not take up the matter because the respondent filed a dilatory objection of lack of jurisdiction of the court, which was upheld. On March 23, 1997, Mr. Valderramos once again filed the action for the payment of compensation in the Juzgado de Letras Departamental of Puerto Lempira. Nothing was done to notify the respondent and continue with the proceeding. (16) Timoteo Lemus Pissaty; on March 8, 2003, he appeared before the Secretariat of Labor in Puerto Lempira to lodge a formal claim. On November 18, 2004, Mr. Lemus’s next-of-kin filed a labor action before the Juzgado de Letras Departamental of Roatán. Similarly, the next-of-kin of Messrs. (17) Andrés Miranda Clemente, (18) Lorenzo Lemon Bonaparte, (19) Bernardo Julián Trino, (20) José Trino Pérez, (21) Rómulo Flores Henríquez, (22) Amilton Clemente Bonaparte and (23) Hildo Ambrosio filed administrative claims on November 20, 2000, before the Secretariat of Labor of La Ceiba. On March 4, 2002, the family members filed a judicial action before the Juzgado de Letras of Puerto Lempira, which was not taken up until two years later.