102 pursuant to Article 61 of its Political Constitution. In addition, the designation of a commemorative date alluded to in the national forum will be joined with the commemoration of the International Day of the Politically Disappeared Person on August 30th of each year. 280. The Court notes that the reason for which a day distinct from the International Day of the Politically Disappeared Person is necessary has not been stated, nor has the reason why the commemorations related to the disappeared persons of the Guerrilla do Araguaia cannot be celebrated on the same day. Similarly, the eventual insufficiency of the measures of reparation adopted by Brazil, requiring the construction of a memorial, has also not been founded. The Court thus considers the issuance of the present Judgment, the measures provided in it, and the various actions adopted by the State, as sufficient measures of reparation. Based on the foregoing, the Court does not find it necessary to order the additional measures of reparation indicated in the present section. 3. Guarantees of non-repetition i. Human rights education in the Armed Forces 281. The Commission requested the Court to order the State to implement, in a reasonable period of time, education programs on human rights within the Armed Forces, at all hierarchical levels, which should include the present case and the regional and international human rights instruments, specifically those related to enforced disappearance and torture. 282. The State expressed that as a consequence of its adherence to the conventions of the United Nations, it began to invest in human rights education for the Armed Forces. The “National Defense Strategy” expressly provides that the educational institutions of the three Armed Forces will expand their subjects for the military training programs in Constitutional Law and Human Rights. As such, the Academy of the Air Force teaches “General Law,” which encompasses the subject of human rights in what regards the analysis of constitutional provisions regarding the fundamental rights and guarantees. In the Army, the subject of “Law,” encompasses matters of constitutional law and human rights, including international humanitarian law. In the Navy, the content on human rights is handled under the subject matter of “Constitutional Law,” specifically in the study of “fundamental rights and guarantees of man,” a subject that is also provided in a broad manner under the subject of “International Humanitarian Law.” 283. The Court positively values the information of Brazil on the training programs for the Armed Forces. This Court considers it important to strengthen the institutional capacities of the State via the training of the members of the Armed Forces on the principles and norms of human rights protection and on the limits to which they are subject.389 As such, the State must continue with the actions carried out and implement, in a reasonable period of time, a program or permanent and obligatory course on human rights, directed at all the hierarchical levels of the Armed Forces. As part of this formation, the present Judgment should be included, as well as the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court on enforced disappearances of persons, on other serious human rights violations, and on the criminal military jurisdiction, in addition to the 389 Cf. Case of the Rochela Massacre v. Colombia, Merits, Reparations and Costs. Judgment of May 11, 2007. Series C No. 163, para. 303; Case of Fernández Ortega et al., supra note 53, para. 262, and Case of Rosendo Cantú et al., supra note 45, para. 249.

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