ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 1999 PROVISIONAL MEASURES ADOPTED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MATTER OF COLOMBIA GIRALDO CARDONA CASE HAVING SEEN: 1. The order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court” or “the Inter-American Court”) of November 27, 1997, in which it was decided: 1. To call upon the State of Colombia to adopt such measures as may be necessary to protect the life and physical safety of Sister Noemy Palencia, upon her return to El Meta. 2. To maintain the provisional measures in favor of Islena Rey Rodríguez, Mariela de Giraldo and her two minor daughters, Sara y Natalia Giraldo. 3. That the State of Colombia must contact the beneficiaries of the provisional measures in order to offer them due, secure, definitive and reliable protection and that, in its next report, it must refer to the result of this step. 4. To call upon the State of Colombia, as an essential part of the duty to protect, to include in its next report information on the progress of the investigation into those responsible for the facts that gave rise to the provisional measures and on the punishment of those responsible for these facts and, if possible, to forward copies of the corresponding actions. 2. The brief of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Commission” or “the Inter-American Commission”) of September 3, 1999, in which it stated that during the night of September 2, 1999, it received an urgent request from the petitioners advising that today at approximately six in the afternoon, ISLENA REY received a telephone call at her place of work in which the Commander of the El Meta Police Department, Colonel Gutiérrez, informed her that a call had been traced in which her last name and physical characteristics were mentioned and an order was given to assassinate her. The Commission immediately requested the Court to call upon Colombia (hereinafter “the State” or “Colombia”) to adopt special measures of protection to guarantee the life and physical safety of Islena Rey. 3. The communication of the Secretary of the Court (hereinafter “the Secretary”) of September 3, 1999, in which he forwarded a copy of the Commission’s brief of the same date to the State and, following the instructions of the President of the Court, requested the State to take such special measures of protection as might be necessary to guarantee the life and physical safety of Mrs.