ORDER OF THE
INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
OF OCTOBER 23, 2012
CASE OF VERA VERA ET AL. v. ECUADOR
MONITORING COMPLIANCE WITH JUDGMENT
HAVING SEEN:
1.
The Judgment on preliminary objection, merits, reparations and costs (hereinafter
“the Judgment”) delivered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the
Inter-American Court” or “the Court”) on May 19, 2011.
2.
The Order of the Court of February 27, 2012, in which it declared that:
1.
In accordance with the relevant considering paragraphs of th[e] order, the State has
complied fully with the following obligations:
a)
To publish certain paragraphs of the judgment in the Official Gazette, to publish the official
summary thereof in a national newspaper with widespread circulation, and to publish the entire
judgment on an appropriate official web site (third operative paragraph of the judgment).
b)
To pay the amounts established as compensation for pecuniary and non-pecuniary
damage, and for reimbursement of costs and expenses (fourth operative paragraph of the
judgment).
AND DECIDE[D]:
1.
To rule on [the obligation to adopt, within a reasonable time, the necessary measures for
the mother of Pedro Miguel Vera Vera to know what happened to her son, and the obligation to
publish specific paragraphs of the Judgment, relating to the second and third operative paragraphs
of the Judgment, respectively] after the Republic of Ecuador ha[d] presented its next report on
compliance with the Judgment.
3.
The brief of July 6, 2012, in which the Republic of Ecuador (hereinafter “the State” or
“Ecuador”) presented information on compliance with the Judgment delivered by the Court
in this case (supra having seen paragraph 1). The original version of this brief was received
by this Court on August 6, 2012, together with a compact disc that had not been submitted
previously.
4.
In a note of the Secretariat of September 21, 2012, the Inter-American Commission
on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Commission” or “the Commission”) and
the representative of the victims (hereinafter “the representative”) were asked to present
any observations they deemed relevant on the content of the said compact disc (supra
having seen paragraph 3) by October 5, 2012, at the latest.
5.
The brief of August 9, 2012, in which the representative presented their observations
on the State’s brief on July 6, 2012, (supra having seen paragraph 3). The representative
did not present observations on the content of the compact disc forwarded by the State on
August 6, 2012.