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are; iii) guarantee so that said registry respects the requirements for the access to
information and privacy; and iv) implementation of a control mechanism for any
authorities not complying with updating such mechanism.
iv) Training program for civil servants
244. The Commission requested the Court to order the Mexican State to develop
“training programs for civil servants taking into account the international rules
established in the Istanbul Protocol so that such civil servants can have the
necessary technical and scientific elements to evaluate any possible situations of
torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatments.” The Commission also
requested the Court to order the State to implement “permanent human rights
education programs within the Mexican Armed Forces, at all hierarchical levels.” In
turn, the State sustained that “[t]he Public Prosecutor’s Office of Mexico is working
on the implementation of the Istanbul Protocol all over the country, training the
civil servants of the Public Prosecutor’s Offices in the entities of Mexico.”
Additionally, the State expressed that the Public Security Secretariat “through the
General Direction of Human Rights conducts workshops and training programs to
prevent torture when working in public security issues and to improve the
implementation of the Istanbul Protocol.” Moreover, the State pointed out that the
2008-2012 National Human Rights Program is providing training to public servants
of the Ministerial Federal Police. Likewise, it indicated that the human rights
training is being provided by means of the National Human Rights Program
(PNDH), in coordination with the National Commission on Human Rights; the
Workshop on Human Rights and Humanitarian Principles applicable to the political
role in coordination with the International Committee of the Red Cross and through
courses, workshops, international seminars and video-conferences.
245. The Court positively values the existence of various training courses and
actions developed by the State. To that end, the Court considers that such actions
and courses must include, as applicable, the study of the provisions established in
the Istanbul Protocol. Therefore and as it has held in other cases,350 the Tribunal
establishes that the State must continue implementing permanent training
programs and courses on diligent investigation in cases of cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatments and torture. Such courses shall be taught to federal and
Guerrero state officials and particularly to members of the Public Prosecutor’s
Office, the Judiciary, the Police and personnel from the health sector having
competence in this type of cases and that, due to their functions, are called to
assist victims alleging attacks to their personal integrity. Moreover, this Tribunal
considers important to strengthen the institutional capacities of the State by means
of training programs for the Mexican Armed Forces on the principles and rules
governing the protection of human rights, including limitations that constrain
them351, in order to avoid the repetition of similar facts.
v)
Other measures requested
246. The Commission and the representatives requested the organization of an
act of public acknowledgment of state responsibility for the damage caused to the
victims. In turn, the representatives requested the following additional measures of
reparation: i) to organize an awareness campaign on the importance of the work
done by human rights advocates in Mexico, ii) to establish an educational center
350
Cf. Case of González et al (“Cotton Field”) v. Mexico, supra note 48, para. 541; and Case of
Rosendo Cantú et al v. Mexico, supra note 30, para. 245 and 246.
351
Cf. Case of the Rochela Massacre v. Colombia, supra note 56, para. 303; Case of Fernandez
Ortega et al v. Mexico, supra note 39, para. 262
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