78 result of an agreement with the Inter-American Commission, Article 8 of the norm establishes that it “does not meet Mexican and international guidelines or recommendations,” namely, that it does not conform to international standards. The Inter-American Commission and the representatives did not address any of the instruments indicated by the State. 242. The Court has ordered in other cases that the parameters for investigations and for performing forensic analyses be harmonized with international standards.285 In the present case, the Court finds it necessary that the State continue with a standardized action protocol for the investigation of sexual abuse, for the federal forum and the state of Guerrero, based on the parameters established in the Istanbul Protocol and the World Health Organization’s guidelines mentioned above. ix) Training programs for officials 243. The Commission asked that the Court order the State to develop training programs for government employees in accordance with the Istanbul Protocol, to provide said officials with the necessary scientific and technical elements to evaluate possible situations of torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. 244. The State presented information and documentary evidence about the implementation of training programs and courses, as well as operating manuals for officials of the public administration, the judiciary branch, and health sector employees. Among other initiatives, Mexico reported that in 2009, a procedure of institutional and social fortification for attention to violence against indigenous women was developed, training government employees of the state of Guerrero in human rights, gender equity, and interculturality. Moreover, the Attorney General of Justice of the state of Guerrero provides training courses in human rights, with the goal of raising awareness amongst the employees on the importance of prevention of sexual assaults, highlighting seminars on criminal investigations of sexual violence, forensic medicine, and attention to victims of sexual violence. In addition, during the 2008-2009 period, the General Secretariat of the Government of Guerrero, carried out two training workshop called “Networks of development of detention, support, and reference of gender-based violence cases in indigenous areas of Guerrero” directed, among others, at indigenous authorities and care providers to the violence. Ten workshops on professionalism of public employees of the judiciary branch of the state of Guerrero were carried out. Finally, Mexico also made reference to other training initiatives of general reach, including the training of translators in the agencies of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in indigenous communities. 245. The Court assesses positively the existence of training programs and courses developed by the State. In this regard, it considers that they should include the provisions of the Istanbul Protocol and the guidelines of the World Health Organization, and should pay special attention to the response to alleged victims of rape, particularly when they belong to vulnerable groups, such as indigenous women and children. 246. As it has done previously,286 the Court orders the State to continue implementing permanent training programs and courses on the diligent investigation of cases of the sexual abuse of women that include a gender and ethnicity perspective. These courses must be offered to officials at the federal level and in the state of Guerrero, particularly to officials within the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the judicial branch, the police, and health sector personnel with competence in this type of case who, owing to their functions, constitute the first line of response to women victims of violence. 285 Cf. Case of González et al. (“Cotton Field”), supra note 21, para. 502. 286 Cf. Case of González et al. (“Cotton Field”), supra note 21, para. 541.