7 irreparable harm to individuals are met, provisional measures become a true judicial guarantee of preventive nature.2 7. That Article 1(1) of the Convention provides for the State Parties' duty to respect the rights and freedoms enshrined therein and to ensure to all persons subject to their jurisdiction the free and full exercise of those rights and freedoms. 8. That provisional measures are not exceptional, but are ordered to satisfy protection needs and, once ordered, must remain in force for as long as the Court deems the requisite conditions of extreme gravity and urgency and prevention of irreparable harm to persons thereby protected to persist.3 9. That the provision contained in Article 63(2) of the Convention gives binding effect to the State’s order adopting provisional measures as directed by this Court, inasmuch as, under the basic principle of the State’s responsibility as sustained by international case law, the States must perform their conventional obligations in good faith (i.e., pacta sunt servanda).4 * * * 10. That, pursuant to the Order of the President, the State was required, among other things, to: adopt all such measures as are necessary to protect the lives and physical integrity of Nieves Gómez Dupuis, Bonifacio Osorio-Ixpatá and other officers of the Asociación Civil Equipo de Estudios Comunitarios y Acción Psicosocial (Community Studies and Psychosocial Action Team Association) (supra Having Seen clause No. 6); in addition, the CALDH was required to submit a list with the names of the officers of the Asociación Civil Equipo de Estudios Comunitarios y Acción Psicosocial, in whose favor the State must adopt such protection measures, which was submitted by the representatives on October 30, 2006 (supra Having Seen clause No. 7). 11. That, from the information furnished by the CALDH concerning the events suffered by the members of the ECAP, it follows prima facie that a situation of extreme gravity and urgency persist and irreparable damage may still be inflicted on the rights to life and physical integrity of Nieves Gómez Dupuis, Bonifacio Osorio-Ixpatá and other ECAP members (supra Having Seen clauses No. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 9). That the prima facie evidence assessment standard and the appropriateness of presumptions in view of protection needs have led this Court to order provisional measures on several 2 Cf. Matter of the persons imprisoned in the “Dr. Sebastião Martins Silveira” Penitentiary in Araquara, São Paulo. Provisional Measures. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of September 30, 2006, Considering clause No. 5; Matter of Gloria Giralt de García-Prieto et al. Provisional Measures. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of September 26, 2006, Considering clause No. 7; Matter of Gómez-Paquivauri. Provisional Measures. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of September 22, 2006, Considering clause No. 6. 3 Cf. Matter of Carlos Nieto et al. Provisional Measures. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of September 22, 2006, Considering clause No. 6; Matter of Marta Colomina and Liliana Velásquez. Provisional Measures. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of July 4, 2006, Considering clause No. 5; Matter of Ramírez Hinostroza et al. Provisional Measures. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of February 7, 2006, Considering clause No. 7. 4 Cf. Matter of the persons imprisoned in the “Dr.Sebastião Martins Silveira” Penitentiary in Araquara, São Paulo. Provisional Measures, supra note 2, Considering clause No. 19; Matter of Marta Colomina and Liliana Veásquez, supra note 3, Considering clause No. 6; and Case of 19 Tradesmen. Provisional Measures. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of July 4, 2006, Considering clause No. 16.