108 appear on the website of the Public Prosecution Service at no more than three links from the main page, retaining it until the judgment had been complied with fully.” The Commission and the State did not comment in this regard. 318. The Court establishes that the State must publish, within six months of notification of this Judgment: (a) the official summary of this Judgment prepared by the Court, once, in the official gazette; (b) the official summary of this Judgment prepared by the Court, once, in a national newspaper with widespread circulation, and (c) this Judgment in its entirety, available for one year, on an official web site of the Judiciary, as well as on the official web sites of the Public Prosecution Service and the Peruvian National Police. C.3. Guarantees of non-repetition C.3.1. Measures of a normative and institutional nature 319. The Commission asked the Court to order the State to adopt the legislative, administrative, and any other measures necessary to ensure that reports of torture and sexual violence involving members of the security forces are investigated ex officio and with due diligence. It also asked that protocols be drawn up to facilitate and encourage the effective, uniform and transparent investigation of acts of physical, sexual and psychological violence, taking into account the international standards established in the Istanbul Protocol and other applicable international criteria. 320. The representatives asked the Court to order the State to adopt or review appropriate protocols to investigate violations relating to the right to personal integrity. In particular, they asked that the State be ordered to incorporate into the actual protocols the standards set out in the Istanbul Protocol concerning the execution of medical examinations, the collection of evidence, confidentiality and ethics in the handling of interviews, and the importance of not revictimizing victims. These protocols should be public knowledge and, in particular, should be available in police stations, hospitals, and any place to which victims of such offenses may have recourse to file complaints. In addition, the State must allocate an appropriate and sufficient budget to ensure the implementation and effectiveness of this instrument. 321. The State affirmed that the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the Public Prosecution Service worked with protocols that were adapted to the Istanbul Protocol, on issues such as attention to victims, investigation of torture, and forensic investigation and the investigation of crimes against humanity. It also advised that, on the orders of the Special Prosecution Units, the experts of the Forensic Clinical and Thanatology Divisions of the Criminalistics Unit would be implementing the international provisions of the Minnesota, Istanbul and Tokyo Protocols when assessing the protocols concerning the torture of the persons and/or corpses they examine. In addition, it listed the names of the professionals who composed the working group that would be evaluating cases of torture. It also gave details of the adaptation of its domestic laws, of public policies implemented with a gender perspective, and of services and programs provided by the State for the protection of women. 322. The Court appreciates the State’s efforts to combat gender-based violence. 490 This progress, especially in the judicial area, constitutes a structural indicator related to the adoption 490 Regarding the information provided by Peru concerning the elaboration of protocols and their implementation, as well as the adaptation of its laws and the implementation of public policies, the Court has taken into account the information provided by the State and the representatives in their main briefs and in their final arguments. In this regard, it has evaluated in detail the following evidence forwarded by the parties: (i) Affidavit made on March 25, 2014, by María Jennie Dador Tozzini (merits file, folios 961 to 990); ii) Affidavit made on March 26, 2014, by Ana María Alejandra Mendieta Trefogli (merits file, folios 1038 to 1094); (iii) Affidavit made on March 26, 2014, by Moisés Valdemar Ponce Malaver (merits file, folios 1018 to 1036); (iv) Protocol for the investigation of torture or cruel,

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