implementation of activities, programs, and dissemination of human rights training, as
well as for the formation of the Masters in ‘Education and Human Rights.’”
50.
As for the training activities undertaken on the part of the Secretariat of
National Defense, the State reported the following: “[w]ithin the “Program of
Promotion and Strengthening of Human Rights and Humanitarian International Law
S.D.N.,’ the following activities have taken place: Conference/Workshop ‘Optional
Protocol of the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhumane, or Degrading
Treatment or Punishments and other international instruments on human rights aimed
at preventing and eradicating torture’[;] Conference/Workshop `The Federal Act to
Prevent and Punish Torture’[;] Conference ‘Legal Implications for acts violating human
rights’[;] Conference ‘Code of conduct for public officers of the Mexican Army and Air
Force’[;] Conference ‘Searches, arrests, illegal detention, and abuses of authority
(torture, isolation, threats, harm, and homicides)’[;] Conference ‘Article 8 of the
Federal Act on Administrative Responsibilities of Public Officers’[;] Course ‘What is
torture? And analysis of cases in which military personnel has been identified as likely
responsible for this type of conduct’[;] and, Course ‘Framework for the participation of
military personnel in support of public safety to avoid the commission of human rights
violations.’” The State added that “[t]he course ‘Forensic investigation and
documentation for the implementation of the Istanbul Protocol,’ which is directed at
personnel of the Health service and of Military Justice, was implemented. The court
was offer[ed] three times per year in the Military Academy of Human Resource
Management.”
51.
Regarding the activities implemented by the Public Security Secretariat
(hereinafter “PSS”), the State indicated that it reinforced “its ‘Program for the
Promotion of Human Rights through the provision of permanent courses and trainings
for public officials.’ In this regard, 604 live training events were offered from December
of 2011 to November of 2012. During these events, 58,003 public officials of the
Central Sector of the PSS, as well as command and operational members of the
Federal Police Divisions, participated. It should be noted that the Federal Police
personnel is approximately 37,000 members, and some of these officials have
completed two or more trainings on human rights. The Programa de Fomento y
Promoción de los Derechos Humanos [Program on Development and Promotion of
Human Rights] was developed, both in classrooms and through distance learning, with
the collaboration of the NHRC, the ICRC, the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights in Mexico (hereinafter ‘OUNHCHR’), the International
Organization for Migration, the Latin American Institute for Educational
Communication, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Ibero-American
University, and non-governmental organizations specializing in human rights.”
52.
The State reported that, the Secretariat of Health, “along with the participation
of the CNDH, the Pan-American Health Organization, and the local health departments,
has held six events titled ‘Workshop on human rights and fundamental freedoms of
persons with mental disabilities for the prevention of cruel, inhumane, and degrading
treatment’ with a total of 393 attendees.”
53.
As for the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Republic, the State noted that
“it administered the following training courses: ‘Course on Human Rights and
Prevention of Torture,” which was offered on five occasions from April 9, 2012 to
August 31, 2012, and in which 70 public officials participated [, and] the ‘Course on
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