ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF DECEMBER 3, 2001 PROVISIONAL MEASURES IN THE MATTER OF THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA GIRALDO CARDONA CASE∗ HAVING SEEN: 1. The Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Court” or “the Court”) of June 19, 1998, in which it decided: 1. To lift the provisional measures ordered by the Court in its order of February 5, 1997, in favor of Gonzalo Zárate and to consider them to be at an end. 2. To require the State of Colombia to adopt such measures as may be necessary to protect the life and personal safety of Sister Noemy Palencia upon her return to El Meta. 3. To maintain the provisional measures in favor of Islena Rey Rodríguez, Mariela de Giraldo and her two minor daughters, Sara and Natalia Giraldo. 4. That, as an essential part of its duty to protect, the State must take effective measures to investigate and, where appropriate, punish those responsible for the acts that gave rise to the adoption of the provisional measures. 5. To call upon the State to report to the Court every two months, from the date of notification of this order, on the measures it has taken in this case, and upon the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to submit its observations on the reports within six weeks of their receipt. 2. The order of the Inter-American Court of November 27, 1998, in which it decided: 1. To call upon the State of Colombia to adopt all necessary measures to protect the life and personal integrity of Sister Noemy Palencia on her return to El Meta. 2. To maintain the provisional measures in favor of Islena Rey Rodríguez, Mariela de Giraldo and her two minor daughters, Sara and Natalia Giraldo. 3. That the State of Colombia must communicate with the beneficiaries of the provisional measures in order to offer them due, serious, definitive and reliable protection and refer to the result of this measure in its next report. 4. To call upon the State of Colombia to include in its next report, as an essential element of the duty to protect, information on the progress of the investigation into those responsible for the facts that originated the provisional measures, and on the punishment of those responsible for these facts and, if possible, transmit copies of the corresponding proceedings. ∗ Judge Oliver Jackman advised the Court that, owing to circumstances beyond his control, he would be unable to attend the fifty-third regular session of the Court; therefore, he did not take part in the deliberation and signature of this Order.