adopt the measures necessary to identify and punish those responsible for the murder of Ms. Cañas-Cano. 10. The Order of the President of July 17, 2000 in the operative part of which he decided: 1. To request the State of Colombia to adopt urgently the measures necessary to guarantee the right to life and personal integrity of Luz Elsia Almanza, Hilda Rosario Jiménez, Ramón Rangel, Robinson Amador, Yamel López, Emely Pérez, Yolanda Salamanca, Rosa Tulia Bolaños, Rocío Campos, and Alexander Rodríguez. 2. To request the State of Colombia to investigate and punish those responsible for the facts denounced by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. 3. To submit this Order to the consideration of the Court at its next session for the pertinent effects. 4. To request the State of Colombia to send to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights an urgent report on the measures adopted in this case, no later than July 27, 2000. 5. To request the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to submit, no later than July 31, 2000, its observations on the urgent report of the State of Colombia 11. The report of the State of Colombia (hereinafter the “State” or “Colombia”) of July 28, 2000, whereby it informed that, after a meeting held the day before with two representatives of ASFADDES, an evaluation was made of the protection measures that would be adopted by the Risk Evaluation and Protection Committee. 12. The communication of the Commission of August 1, 2000, where it established that “the meeting between the Ministry of the Interior and two representatives of ASFADDES, to which the Illustrious State refers in its Urgent Report, had never taken place.” CONSIDERING: 1. That Colombia is a State Party to the American Convention on Human Rights, whose Article 1(1) establishes the obligation that the State Parties have to respect the rights and freedoms recognized in that covenant, and to ensure the free and full exercise thereof to all persons subject to their jurisdiction, and that, on June 21, 1985, said State recognized the jurisdiction of this Court in conformity with Article 62 of the Convention. 2. That Article 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights establishes that “In cases of extreme gravity and urgency, and when necessary to avoid irreparable damage to persons, the Court” may, at the request of the Commission, adopt “such provisional measures as it deems pertinent in matters” not yet submitted to its knowledge. 3. That in relationship to this subject matter Article 25(1) of the Rules of Procedure establishes that At any stage of the proceedings involving cases of extreme gravity and urgency, and when necessary to avoid irreparable damage to persons, the Court may, at the request of a party or on its own motion, order such provisional measures as it deems pertinent, pursuant to Article 63(2) of the Convention.