3 6. That the State is obliged to seriously investigate the threats and acts of intimidation that the persons protected have suffered, and this obligations persists since the provisional measures remain in effect. THEREFORE: THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 63.2 of the American Convention on Human Rights and 25 of its Rules of Procedure DECIDES: 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. Hernán Salgado-Pesantes President Antônio A. Cançado Trindade Máximo Pacheco-Gómez Oliver Jackman Sergio García-Ramírez Alirio Abreu-Burelli Carlos Vicente de Roux-Rengifo Manuel E. Ventura-Robles Secretary