ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS∗ OF JULY 5, 2006 REQUEST FOR PROVISIONAL MEASURES SUBMITTED BY THE INTERAMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS REGARDING THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA MATTER OF MERY NARANJO ET AL. HAVING SEEN: 1. The brief of July 3, 2006, and its attachments, in which the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Commission” or “the Commission”) submitted to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court”), pursuant to Articles 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” or “the American Convention”) and 25 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court (hereinafter “the Rules of Procedure”), a request for provisional measures for the State of Colombia (hereinafter “the State” or “Colombia”) to adopt the necessary measures to protect the life and personal integrity “of Mery Naranjo [Jiménez] and her family and to investigate the acts perpetrated against her and [María del] Socorro Mosquera [Londoño].”1 2. The Commission presented the following facts, inter alia, in relation to the request for provisional measures: a) Mery Naranjo Jiménez and María del Socorro Mosquera Londoño are human rights defenders. Mery Naranjo Jiménez has become prominent as a community leader of Commune XIII in Medellín (infra Having seen paragraph b)), and she is President of the Community Action Committee of Las Independencias District III. María del Socorro Mosquera Londoño is well known as a community leader and defender of the human rights of the women and children of the Las Independencias District and she is President of the Las Independencias Women’s Association. These two women “have constantly denounced State representatives and agents for their alleged participation in serious human rights violations in [Commune XIII].” Regarding their work, the Commission indicated that, as a result of massive displacement and political violence in the State, “feminine leadership” has ∗ Judges Oliver Jackman and Diego García-Sayán informed the Court that, due to reasons beyond their control, they would be unable to take part in the deliberation and signature of this Order. 1 In the brief requesting provisional measures the name María del Socorro Mosquera Londoño or Socorro Mosquera Londoño is used without distinction for the person in favor of whom the Commission has requested the adoption of provisional measures. The Court understands that the same person is referred to and, in this Order, it will use the name María del Socorro Mosquera Londoño.