However, in view of the observations of the Commission and the representatives on this
matter, this Court considers that the State must take the necessary measures to ensure
that the persons it has appointed to implement the measures, as well as the members of
the working group, take concrete steps to implement the measures as regards, inter alia,
the issuing of the remainder of the safe conducts and the scheduling of meetings with the
participation of the beneficiaries or their representatives. In addition, the Court takes note
of the commitment expressed by the representatives to facilitate compliance with these
measures. Based on the foregoing, the Court reiterates the provisions of considering
paragraph 20 of the Order of December 1, 2011, and considers it essential that, in its next
report, the State indicate the steps it has taken, and also that it continue to implement the
necessary and sufficient measures: (a) to continue the periodic meetings of the working
group composed of State officials, with the participation of the beneficiaries and/or their
representatives to collaborate on the implementation of the measures ordered by the Court,
and (b) to submit a report with the timetable of the next meetings.
B) Regarding the situation of Solain Pie or Solain Pierre or Solange Pierre
22.
In its report of February 1, 2012, the State requested that the provisional measures
in favor of Solain Pierre be lifted, because she had died in December 2012.
23.
In this regard, in their briefs of December 20, 2011, and February 1, 2012, based on
the decease of Solain Pierre on December 4, 2011, the representatives asked the Court to
lift the measures in her favor. On February 17, 2012, the Commission also referred to the
death of Ms. Pierre.
Considerations of the Court
24.
Since Solange Pierre is now deceased the provisional measures in her favor are
rescinded.
C) Regarding the situation of the children of Solain Pie or Solain Pierre or Solange Pierre
25.
In its report of February 1, 2012, the State requested that the measures in favor of
the children of Solange Pierre be lifted, because, with their mother’s death, the reasons for
the provisional measures granted in their favor had ceased to exist.
26.
In their observations of December 20, 2011, and February 1 and 10, 2012, the
representatives indicated that Solange Pierre’s children are in a situation of extreme gravity
and urgency with respect to their life and personal integrity, because they continue to be
subjected to harassment and criticism due to their work. In this regard, the representatives
indicated that her daughter Manuela began to work in the legal department of the
Dominican-Haitian Women’s Movement (MUDHA), and to have greater public exposure in
representation of the organization, and that her son Carlos has worked for several months
in this organization’s transportation department. They added that Solange Pierre’s children
had informed them that, in the last two weeks, they had been subjected to various acts of
intimidation, such as the fact that, on several occasions, they have observed a car with
tinted windows drive slowly by their home, turn round and then drive rapidly away.
Consequently, and given the close ties between the surname Pierre and the activities of
MUDHA, the representatives requested that the provisional measures be maintained in favor
of Solain Pierre’s children, and that the working group be ordered to meet with the
representatives to agree on and implement the necessary measures to protect their life and
personal integrity.
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