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ANNUAL REPORT 1975 Section 2 - Part III OBSERVATIONS
ON COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED In
the period covered by this report, the Commission examined 289
communications or claims from persons and organizations denouncing 100
concrete cases of alleged violations of the human rights embodied in the
American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man. In addition it
also received communications reporting on the general status of these
rights in the American countries. As
to processing given each case (Articles 37 to 51 of the Regulations),
the Commission proceeded to examine the evidence adduced by the
government concerned or by the person making the denunciation or such
evidence as the Commission itself was able to gather, in accordance with
Article 50 of the Regulations, applying where appropriate the rule on
presumption of confirmation set forth in Article 51. In
accordance with its Statute (Article 9 (bis) c), the Commission feels
that its annual report to the General Assembly should comment only on
those cases in which processing and examination were completed during
the period covered by the report and in which a violation of human
rights was confirmed and regarding which, pursuant to Articles 52 and 56
of its Regulations, appropriate recommendations were made to the
government against which the denunciation was filed. Therefore,
in compliance with Resolution XII of the Second Special Inter-American
Conference (paragraph 4), Article 150 of the Charter of the Organization
of American States, and Article 57 of its Regulations, the Commission
submits to the General Assembly for its consideration the observations
it considers appropriate with respect to the cases that meet the
above-mentioned conditions.
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