96 corresponding bill, but it shall guarantee its prompt sanction and entry into force, pursuant with the procedures established in its domestic legal system in that sense. C3. Training legal agents and education in human rights 345. The representatives requested that this Tribunal order that the State train “[a]ll public officials who in the normal development of their tasks are in contact with the next of kin of victims of forced disappearance […] so they know how to deal with the considerations necessary […]” with those people. 346. Given the specific circumstances of the present case, this Tribunal considers it important to strengthen the institutional capacities of the State of Mexico, through the training of public officials, in order to avoid facts as those analyzed in the present case from happening again. With regard to the training in matters of the protection of human rights, the Court, in it jurisprudence, has considered that this is one form of offering public officials new knowledge, of developing their capacities, allowing their specialization in certain innovative areas, preparing them to fill different positions and adapting their abilities in order to offer a better performance in the tasks assigned.322 347. Similarly, this Tribunal has reiterated that the State’s obligation to adequately investigate and punish, in its case, those responsible, shall be diligently complied with in order to avoid impunity and the repetition of this type of facts. Therefore, the Courts orders that, without detriment to the training programs for public officials in matters of human rights that already exist in Mexico, the State shall implement, within a reasonable period of time and with the corresponding budgetary stipulation: a) Programs or permanent courses regarding the analysis of the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Human Rights Protection System in reference to the limits of military criminal jurisdiction, as well as the rights to judicial guarantees and judicial protection, as a way of preventing that cases of violations of human rights be investigated and prosecuted by that jurisdiction. Those programs will be addressed to the members of all the Military’s Forces, including agents of the Public Prosecutors’ Office and judges, as well as the agents of the public prosecutors’ office of the Attorney General of the Republic and judges of the Judiciary of the Federation, and b) A training program on the due investigation and prosecution of facts that constitute the forced disappearance of persons, addressed to agents of the Public Prosecutors’ office of the Attorney General of the Republic and judges of the Judiciary of the Federation, who have jurisdiction in the investigation and prosecution of facts such as the ones that occurred in the present case, in order to provide those officials with the legal, technical, and scientific elements necessary to comprehensively evaluate the phenomenon of forced disappearance. Specifically, in this type of cases the authorities in charge of the investigation shall be trained in the use of circumstantial evidence, indicia, and presumptions, the assessment of the systematic patterns that may lead to the facts under investigation and the location of persons who have suffered a forced disappearance. (supra para. 206 and 222). 322 Cf. Case of Claude Reyes et al. v. Chile. Monitoring of Compliance with Judgment. Order of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights of November 24, 2008, Considering clause number nineteen, and Case of Escher et al. v. Brazil, supra note 64, para. 251.

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