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276. The representatives asked the Court to order the State to conduct “permanent
training on human rights for the operators of justice, to include the creation of a
specific work protocol for the collection and identification of the bodily remains of
disappeared individuals.”
277. The State, in its response to the petition, reported that, since 2007, it has
carried out trainings to “educate on Human Rights, from an ethical and regulatory
perspective, thereby enabling all citizens, among other things, to have access to the
Administration of Justice and to the effective validity of the principle of equality
before the law.” It also indicated that the Center for Judicial Studies of Uruguay,
taught various seminars where topics of human rights are discussed.
278. Based on what has been stated in the case file, the Court, without detriment
to the programs of human rights training for public operators that already exists in
Uruguay, orders the State to implement, at the Center for Judicial Studies of
Uruguay, in a reasonable period of time and with the corresponding budgetary
means, permanent human rights programs, offered to district attorneys and judges
of the Judicial Branch of Uruguay, that entail courses or training programs on the
diligent investigation and judgment of acts which constitute enforced disappearance
of persons and abductions of minors.
iii. Public access to the State files
279. The representatives requested the Court to order the State to guarantee
“public access to files located in the State’s agencies and to establish a mechanism of
systematization, identification, maintenance, update, and organization for them, […]
allowing effective access and responsible use […] and ensuring that the authorities in
charge of the criminal investigation explain the human rights violations.”
280. The State highlighted that the Law 18.381 of October 17, 2008, should be
taken into account, a law wherein: a) the goal is the promotion of transparency in
the administrative function of all public organizations, whether of the State or not,
and also the guarantee of the fundamental right of persons to have access to public
information, b) it recognizes the right to have access to public information and c)
establishes standards, and for classification of information and that it creates a
specialized agency which has already been regulated. Thereby, “within the
aforementioned law, the victims requests are fulfilled.”
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