5 12. That the State must maintain provisional measures of protection in favour of the persons mentioned in the Orders of the President of the Court and of the Court of August 14 and 26, 2002, respectively, and expand the measures to the persons mentioned in the preceding considerations (supra sixth and eighth considering paragraphs). THEREFORE: THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS In exercise of the authority invested in it by Article 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights and Article 25 of its Rules of Procedure, DECIDES: 1. To ratify the Orders of the President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of August 14 and 26, 2003, respectively. 2. To call upon the State to maintain the necessary measures to protect the life and safety of Helen Mack Chang, Viviana Salvatierra, América Morales Ruiz, Luis Roberto Romero Rivera, and the other members of the Myrna Mack Foundation. 3. To call upon the State to expand forthwith all necessary measures to protect the life and safety of the next of kin of Myrna Mack Chang: Zoila Esperanza Chang Lau (mother), Marco Antonio Mack Chang (brother), Freddy Mack Chang (brother), Vivian Mack Chang (sister), Ronnie Mack Apuy (cousin), Lucrecia Hernández Mack (daughter) and the latter's children. 4. To call upon the State to extend forthwith all necessary measures to protect the life and safety of Iduvina Hernández. 5. To call upon the State to plan and implement the provisional measures together with the beneficiaries of these measures or their representatives and, in general, to keep them informed of progress in the measures ordered by the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights. 6. To call upon the State to report to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights about the provisional measures it has adopted in compliance with this order, within 15 days of receiving the corresponding notification. 7. To call upon the representatives of the alleged victim's next of kin to submit their comments on the State's report within one week of receiving it, and on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to present its comments within two weeks of notification of the State's report. 8. To call upon the State, following its first communication (supra sixth operative paragraph), to continue reporting to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, every two months, about the provisional measures it has adopted, and to call upon the representatives of the alleged victim's next of kin to submit their comments on