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and full exercise to each person subject to its jurisdiction.9 Specifically, the Court reminds that
the States have the particular duty to protect those persons that work in non-governmental
organizations, as well as to grant effective and adequate guarantees to the defenders of
human rights so that they may freely carry out their activities, avoiding actions that limit or
create obstacles for their work, because the work that they carry out constitutes a positive and
complementary contribution to the efforts made by the State in virtue of its position of
guarantor of the rights of persons under its jurisdiction.10
THEREFORE:
THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS,
In use of the attributes conferred by Article 63(2) of the American Convention on Human
Rights and Articles 27 and 31 of the Rules of the Court,
RESOLVES:
1.
To dismiss the request for provisional measures by the representatives.
2.
To incorporate as an annex the respective documentation to the case file of the
supervision of compliance of the Judgment of Reparations and Costs of August 29, 2002, in the
case of the Caracazo v. Venezuela.
3.
To require the Secretary to notify the present Order to the representatives, the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights and to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
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Cf. Case of Velásquez Rodríguez. Provisional Measures regarding Honduras. Order of the Court of January
15, 1988, Considering third; Case of Garcia Prieto and others. Provisional Measures regarding El Salvador. Order of
the Court of February 3, 2010, Considering fifteenth; and Matter of Belfort Istúriz and others. Provisional Measures
regarding Venezuela, supra Note 2, Considering twenty-second.
Cf. Case of the Mongas Judicial Confinement Center. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of
February 9, 2006, Considering fourteenth; Matter of Fernandez Ortega and others. Provisional Measures regarding
Mexico. Order of the Court of April 30, 2009, Considering sixteenth; and Matter of Giraldo Cardona and others.
Provisional Measures regarding Colombia. Order of the Court of February 2, 2010, Considering fourtieth.
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