-15current and detailed information on the issues to which this obligation refers.4 The failure of the State to comply with this obligation is especially grave, given the juridical nature of these measures.5 21. That the Court considers that Argentina should provide information on the implementation of the provisional measures so that the Court can duly evaluate compliance with them and the need to maintain these measures. 22. That the merits of the case that originated these provisional measures have not been submitted to the Court’s consideration and that the adoption of these provisional measures does not imply a decision on the merits of the dispute that exists between the petitioners and the State.6 By adopting urgent or provisional measures, the President and the Court are merely exercising their mandate, pursuant to the Convention, in cases of extreme gravity and urgency that require measures of protection to avoid irreparable damage to persons. THEREFORE: THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, pursuant to the authority conferred by Article 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights and Articles 25 and 29 of its Rules of Procedure, DECIDES: 1. To ratify all the terms of the Order of the President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of June 21, 2006, and, consequently, to require the State to maintain the measures it has adopted and to adopt, forthwith, all necessary measures to protect the rights to life and to personal integrity of María Leontina Millacura Llaipén, Marcos and Valeria Torres, Juan Pablo Caba, Gerardo Colín, Patricio Oliva, Tamara Bolívar, Walter Mansilla, Miguel Ángel Sánchez, Silvia de los Santos, 4 Cf. Matter of the Mendoza Prisons. Provisional measures. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of March 30, 2006, fourteenth considering paragraph; Matter of the Jiguamiandó and Curbaradó Communities. Provisional measures. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of February 7, 2006, sixteenth considering paragraph; and Matter of Luisiana Ríos et al. (Radio Caracas Televisión – RCTV). Provisional measures. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of September 12, 2005, seventeenth considering paragraph. Cf. Matter of the Mendoza Prisons. Provisional measures. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of March 30, 2006, fourteenth considering paragraph; Matter of the Jiguamiandó and Curbaradó Communities. Provisional measures. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of February 7, 2006, sixteenth considering paragraph; and Matter of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó. Provisional measures. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of February 2, 2006, seventeenth considering paragraph. 5 6 Cf. Matter of the Forensic Anthropology Foundation. Urgent Measures. Order of the President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of April 21, 2006, seventh considering paragraph; Matter of Yare I and Yare II Capital Region Penitentiary Center (Yare Prison). Provisional measures. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of March 30, 2006, seventh considering paragraph; and Matter of the Monagas Judicial Confinement Center (“La Pica”). Provisional measures. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of February 9, 2006, seventh considering paragraph.