ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF NOVEMBER 30, 2001 PROVISIONAL MEASURES REQUESTED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MATTER OF THE UNITED MEXICAN STATES THE MIGUEL AGUSTÍN PRO JUÁREZ HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER ET AL. CASE HAVING SEEN: 1. The brief of October 22, 2001, and attachments, in which, pursuant to Article 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” or “the American Convention”) and Article 74 of its Regulations, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Commission” or “the Inter-American Commission”) submitted to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court” or “the Inter-American Court”) a request for provisional measures in favor of the members of the non-governmental human rights organization known as the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center (hereinafter “PRODH Center”) and the lawyers Pilar Noriega García, Bárbara Zamora López and Leonel Rivero Rodríguez with regard to the United Mexican States (hereinafter “Mexico” or “the State”). In this brief, the Commission requested the Court: a) To immediately adopt effective security measures to guarantee the life and personal safety of the members of the PRODH Center and the lawyers, Pilar Noriega García, Bárbara Zamora López and Leonel Rivero Rodríguez. b) To establish the measures of protection set forth in paragraph (a) supra, in agreement with the persons to be protected so as to ensure the effectiveness and pertinence of such measures. c) To adopt, as an essential element of the duty to protect, effective measures to investigate the facts that gave rise to these measures, in order to identify and punish those responsible for such facts in accordance with due process. d) To advise the Court shortly about the concrete and effective measure adopted to protect the members of the PRODH Center and the lawyers, Pilar Noriega García, Bárbara Zamora López and Leonel Rivero Rodríguez; and, subsequently, to inform the Court about the status of the provisional measures every two months. The Inter-American Commission also requested the Court to convene a public hearing as soon as possible so that it could provide detailed information on the situation in question. The Commission based its request for provisional measures on the following facts: