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ABC of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights 2020 18 alternative solutions, calls attention to noncompliance due to a lack of will, promotes proposals for compliance timelines by working with everyone involved,makes its facilities available, and takes whatever measure it deems necessary to help the process. WHAT ARE HEARINGS ON SUPERVISION AND COMPLIANCE WITH JUDGMENTS? The Court from time to time may convene the State and victims’ representatives to a hearing to supervise compliance with its decisions, during which it also hears the decisions of the Commission. In such hearings, which tend to last for about two hours, the State presents its advances in compliance with the obligations ordered by the Court in the judgment concerned, and the representatives of the victims and Inter-American Commission present their observations regarding the state of compliance in question. The parties also have the options of answer and rejoinder, respectively. Finally, the Judges have the opportunity to question the parties. In the context of these hearings, as in hearings on provisional measures, the Court has a conciliatory posture and, to that extent, is not limited to taking note of the information presented by the parties, but rather, under the principles that make it a human rights Court, among other measures, it suggests alternative solutions, calls attention to noncompliance due to a lack of will, promotes proposals for compliance timelines by working with everyone involved, and makes its facilities available so that the parties can hold meetings. ARE HEARINGS PUBLIC? Yes, anyone may attend hearings of the Court, save for when the Court considers it best that a hearing be private.