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indigenous organizations and those who offer services regarding violence, municipal
authorities, and government employees of the judicial branch so as to, inter alia,
“sensitize [them] in regards to the attention of women and their development in
conditions that promote equal protection and freedom from violence.”
238. In this regard, the State provided definite information regarding programs and
actions developed on this subject, and the existence and validity were not objected to by
the Commission, and to which the Commission also did not raise information regarding
their possible problems. As such, the Court states that the duty to provide motive and
establish the claims for reparations and costs is not satisfied with generic requests where
there is no attached evidence or argumentation (supra paras. 232 and 238). The
abovementioned prevents the Court from addressing the requested measures.
viii)
Protocol for the diligent investigation of acts of violence
239. The Commission requested the Court to order the State to design protocols to
facilitate and promote the effective, standardized, and transparent investigation of acts
of physical, sexual, and psychological violence, which should include a description of the
complex nature of the evidence, and details of the minimum evidence that must be
collected in order to provide adequate probative grounds, according to the provisions of
the Istanbul Protocol.
240. The State reported on the adoption of distinct protocols related with the
investigation of the violence against women in the state of Guerrero such as the
protocols of care to women in situations of violence and of the investigation of crimes of
homicide with a focus on feminicides. Moreover, it reported on the publication of two
manuals entitled, “Detection Networks, Support and Reference of Cases of Violence
Against Indigenous Women of Guerrero,” and “Reference Models of Cases of Gender
Violence for the state of Guerrero,” as well as other instruments related to the
investigation and attention to violence against women, among others, the “Integrated
Model for the Prevention and Attention of Family and Sexual violence,” model used by
health units, and the Program of “Medical Attention to Raped Persons.” Likewise, the
State provided information on the process of fitting the Istanbul Protocol to the national
context through elaboration and application of the Special Medical/Psychological Report
for Cases of Possible Torture and/or Mistreatment, issued by the Office of the Attorney
General of the Republic, as well as by publication of institutional guidelines for the
application of this Report to be followed by the agents of the Office of the Public
Prosecutor of the Federation, and the forensic experts and/or criminal pathologists of the
Office of the Attorney General of the Republic. Furthermore, it advised that 29 federative
entities had received training on this report and three federative entities were in the
process of training the attorney general’s offices on the implementation of the Istanbul
Protocol. Lastly, the State provided information on the elaboration of Mexican Official
Norm NOM-046-SSA2-2005 on domestic and sexual violence and violence against
women, which contains criteria to prevent and deal with this. This norm establishes
various obligations for personal health, among others, to inform the Public Prosecutor’s
Office to carry out the corresponding investigations, and it was created pursuant to a
friendly settlement with the Inter-American Commission.
241. The Court takes note of the information provided by the State concerning the
existence of the mentioned instruments, and the training activities that the federative
entities have been holding. However, the State did not attach the document on the
“national contextualization” of the Istanbul Protocol or on its application in the state of
Guerrero. Furthermore, the Court positively notes the existence of Mexican Official Norm
NOM-046-SSA2-2005, which contains criteria for preventing and dealing with sexual
abuse and violence against women, as well as detection and investigation standards for
health personnel. Nevertheless, the Court notes that despite that in its introduction it
states that “with the ellaboration of this Mexican Official Norm [the State] complies with
the commitments acquired in the international forum,” and despite that the Norm is the
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