Title: Follow-up on IACHR decisions
Course: Inter-American Human Rights System - 2nd. Edition > Section: Follow-up and closing

The Commission makes recommendations to OAS Member States to promote due respect for human rights. Making recommendations is one way in which the Commission promotes and defends human rights in the Americas.

- Within the framework of the monitoring system, the Commission adopts and follows up on the recommendations made in reports published on the human rights situations in States, in thematic reports, and in the Annual Reports of the IACHR. Throughout its history, the Commission has consolidated the practice of following up on its reports by producing specific follow-up reports aimed at evaluating compliance with previously issued recommendations. In addition, it dedicates Chapter V of its annual report to follow-up on the recommendations made in the framework of its monitoring activities.
- Within the framework of the system of petitions and cases, the Commission adopts and follows up on the recommendations formulated in the published merits reports; on the decisions in the reports that approve friendly settlement agreements between Member States and petitioners before the system; and on the decisions in resolutions that grant or extend precautionary measures to individuals or groups at imminent risk.
- To follow up on compliance with recommendations in cases, the Commission requests information from relevant States and petitioners and publishes this information in its annual report on the follow-up of its decisions.  In addition, the Commission may hold hearings, working meetings with both parties, and meetings with the State to follow up on all the recommendations issued in cases and friendly settlement agreements, as well as compliance with precautionary measures.

The working meetings are spaces for dialogue and exchange between the parties, with the Commission as supervisor and facilitator of the process. Working meetings make it possible to: identify the obstacles that affect compliance with the recommendations;  find ways to overcome them; or to consider whether the criteria are met to send a case that has not yet been published by the IACHR to the Inter-American Court.

In addition to the publication of follow-up reports and the follow-up of the annual report, the Commission has developed special follow-up mechanisms, as well as an Integrated Computerized Follow-up System (SIMORE), which will be described in the following sections.