79 x) Permanent educational programs on human rights within the Armed Forces 247. The Commission asked that the Court order the State to implement permanent educational programs on human rights within the Mexican Armed Forces, for all ranks, which should include special mention of international human rights instruments, specifically those related to the protection of women’s rights, inter alia, their right to live without violence, and to non-discrimination. 248. The State presented information on the human rights training programs and international humanitarian law programs implemented by the Mexican Secretariat of National Defense. Likewise, it indicated the creation of the General Office of Human Rights of said Secretariat, responsible for promoting a culture of human rights within the Armed Forces and to follow the complaints and recommendations that the National Human Rights Commission puts forward for the probable violations of human rights imputed to military personnel. Regarding a gender-based perspective, it manifested that said Secretariat is currently developing a Training and Sensitization Program for GenderBased Perspectives. 249. The Court assesses the information offered by the State regarding the training programs. This Court considers it important to develop the State’ institutional capacities by training members of the Armed Forces on the principles and norms for the protection of human rights and on the limits to which they should be subject,287 in order to avoid a repetition of acts such as those that occurred in the present case. To this end, the State must implement, within a reasonable period of time, a permanent program or course of obligatory human rights training, that includes, among other topics, the limits in the interaction between military personnel and the civilian population, gender, and indigenous rights, for members of the Armed Forces in all hierarchical ranks. xi) Medical and psychological care 250. The Commission asked the Court to order the State to adopt measures of medical and psychological rehabilitation for the victim and her next of kin, which should include the design and implementation of a mental health care plan, in consensus with mental health professionals and women victims of rape, for the recuperation, rehabilitation, and full reinsertion back into her community. 251. The representatives asked the Court to order the State to guarantee to Mrs. Rosendo Cantú and her daughter, medical and psychological care provided by competent and trustworthy professionals for both of them, that take into consideration her status as an indigenous woman victim of violence, her culture, and her address. Moreover, they requested that the State incur all the all expenses related to treatment, including transportation or other necessities. 252. The Court finds, as it has in other cases,288 that a measure of reparation must be ordered that provides appropriate care for the physical and psychological effects suffered by the victims, which attend to their gender and ethnicity. Consequently, having verified the violations and the harm suffered by the victims in the present case, the Court decides that the State is obliged to provide them, free of charge and immediately, with the medical and psychological care they require. Prior, clear, and sufficient information should be offered to the victims so as to obtain their consent. The treatments should be provided for the time that is necessary, and should include the provision of medication, and where applicable, transportation, interpreters, and other costs that are directly related and strictly necessary. 287 288 Cf. Case of the Rochela Massacre, supra note 219, para. 303. Cf. Case of Barrios Altos, supra note 277, para. 45; Case Chitay Nech et al., supra note 25, para. 255, and Case of Manuel Cepeda Vargas, supra note 25, para. 235.

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