E. The State must implement, within a reasonable time, permanent education
programs on human rights addressed to members of the intelligence
services, the Armed Forces, as well as judges and prosecutors (operative
paragraph nine)
27.
The State offered information on different human rights programs for officials of the
Ministry of the Interior, for example: The Office of Police Education and Doctrine included in
its curriculum the subject of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in its
educational, training, specialization and continuing education courses within the Police
Education System; the Division of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces since 2003
created the Center for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law of the Ministry
of Defense; the Army, Air Force, and Navy Intelligence Offices provided courses in Human
Rights and International Humanitarian Law, as part of their curriculum; the Office of
Education and Doctrine of the Peruvian National Police provided the curriculum of five bodies
of the National Police educational system, where courses on Human Rights are offered,
among other courses. In regard to the Military-Police Forum, it noted that: on October 22,
1996 the Center for Advanced Studies on Military Justice [Centro de Altos Estudios de
Justicia Militar (CAEJM for its acronym in Spanish)] was created, as a dependant body of the
Supreme Tribunal of the Military-Police Forum, in order to prepare and provide continuing
education to the personnel of the Military Judicial Corps, in which five First Level courses for
Military-Police Magistrates have been implemented and concluded, as well as a course for
Legal Assistants; among others. With regard to the Public Prosecutor’s Office (of the Nation),
the State noted that the Office of the Superior Criminal National Prosecutor’s Office and the
Supra-provincial Criminal Prosecutor’s Office reported on the trainings offered to the
administrative personnel and prosecutors on human rights protection, carried out academic
events (seminars, workshops, conferences, and other events) on human rights and
authorized the participation of the Superior Coordinating Prosecutor, Superior Prosecutors,
Provincial Prosecutors, Provincial Deputy Prosecutors, and administrative personnel to
contribute to the trainings and continuing education in order to improve their professional
capabilities. In terms of the Ministry of Defense, the State noted that “in the Training School
for Officers, Technicians, and non-commissioned officers of the Army, subjects on Human
Rights and International Humanitarian Law are provided to all cadets and students in their
general training.”
28.
Similarly, they submitted information provided by the National Commission for the
Study and Application of International Humanitarian Law (CONADIH for its acronym in
Spanish) which states that the Ministry of Defense is providing education on International
Humanitarian Law (IHL) and Human Rights (HR) in its centers such as the Center for
National Studies (CAEN for its acronym in Spanish) and the Centre for International
Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, which are responsible for organizing and conducting
training programs for the Armed Forces and personnel at nationwide and decentralized State
institutions.
29.
By way of a brief dated August 8, 2013, the representatives mentioned that “the
mere existence of training courses within the various State agencies is not sufficient to
demonstrate compliance with this measure of reparation,” since “the State’s brief does not
make reference to the content of the courses, their duration, the people who teach and
number of students attending, and their impact on ensuring the non-repetition of the events
referred to in this case.”
30.
The Court recalls that in its Judgment it noted, as a basis for ordering the guarantee
of non-repetition, that "the violations attributable to the State […] were perpetrated by State
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