2 4. The Order of the Inter-American Court of June 19, 1998, whereby it decided, inter alia: 1. To lift and discontinue the provisional measures ordered by the Court in its Order of February 5, 1997, in behalf of Gonzalo Zárate [;] 2. To request the State of Colombia to adopt such measures as may be necessary to protect the life and physical integrity of Sister Noemy Palencia as soon as she returns to Meta Department [;] 3. To maintain the provisional measures adopted in behalf of Islena ReyRodríguez, Mariela de Giraldo and her two minor daughters Sara and Natalia Giraldo [; and] 4. To request the State, as an essential part of the duty of protection, to adopt effective measures to investigate and, where appropriate, punish those responsible for the facts which gave rise to the adoption of the provisional measures. […] 5. The Order of the Inter-American Court of November 27, 1998, whereby it decided: 1. To request the State of Colombia to adopt such measures as may be necessary to protect the life and physical integrity of Sister Noemy Palencia as soon as she returns to Meta Department [;] 2. To maintain the provisional measures adopted in behalf of Islena ReyRodríguez, Mariela de Giraldo and her two minor daughters Sara and Natalia Giraldo [;] 3. To request the State of Colombia to communicate with the beneficiaries of the provisional measures in order to afford them due, serious, final, and reliable protection and to inform, in its next report, about the results of such steps [; and] 4. To request the State of Colombia to include in its next report, as an essential part of the duty of protection, information about the progress of the investigation into those responsible for the facts which gave rise to the adoption of the provisional measures, and about the sanctions imposed to those responsible for such facts and, if possible, to forward copies of the pertinent proceedings. 6. The Order of the Inter-American Court of September 30, 1999, whereby it decided, inter alia: 1. To request the State of Colombia to maintain such measures as may be necessary to protect the life and physical integrity of Sister Noemy Palencia (as soon as she returns to Meta Department), Islena Rey, and Mariela de Giraldo and her two minor daughters, Sara and Natalia Giraldo, in behalf of whom the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the adoption of provisional measures in its Orders of October 28, 1996; February 5, 1997; and June 19 and November 27, 1998 [;] 2. To request the State of Colombia to conduct an investigation into the facts denounced which gave rise to these measures in order to identify those responsible for such facts and punish them [;] 3. To request the State of Colombia to inform about the alternative mechanisms which shall be adopted as a consequence of the facts described in the briefs filed by the Commission on September 3 and 15, 1999 and in the briefs filed by the State on the seventeenth day of the same month and year, to effectively comply with the provisional measures ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, as well as to inform about the steps taken with a view to reopening the Comité Cívico por los Derechos Humanos del Meta (Meta Department Human Rights Civic Committee) [; and] 4. To request the State of Colombia to continue allowing the petitioners to take part in the planning and implementation of the measures referred to in the foregoing paragraph and, in general, to keep them informed about the progress regarding the compliance with the measures ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.