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of norms that, in principle, are aimed at dealing with violence and discrimination against women.
Nevertheless Peru did not provide the Court with information on the effectiveness of the
measures adopted. Furthermore, Peruvian investigation protocols should include the standards
established in this Judgment. Consequently, the Court orders the State of Peru, within a
reasonable time, to draw up investigation protocols to ensure that cases of torture, rape and
other forms of sexual violence are duly investigated and prosecuted pursuant to the standards
indicated in paragraphs 248, 249, 251, 252, 255 and 256 of this Judgment, which relate to the
collection of evidence in cases of torture and sexual violence and, in particular, to the reception
of statements, and the execution of medical and psychological assessments.
C.3.2. Education and training programs
323. The Commission asked the Court to order the State to implement training programs for
State officials that take into account the international standards established in the Istanbul
Protocol, so that these officials have the necessary technical and scientific information to
evaluate possible situations of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. It also asked
that the State implement, within a reasonable time, permanent human rights education
programs at all hierarchical levels of the Police Forces, and include in the curriculum of those
training programs special reference to international human rights instruments, specifically
those relating to the protection of women’s rights, particularly their right to a life free of
violence and discrimination
324. The representatives asked the Court to order the State to implement permanent training
courses for public servants in keeping with the Istanbul Protocol that provided them with the
necessary technical and scientific information to evaluate possible situation of torture, rape or
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
325. The State advised that it had been implementing human rights education programs, as
well as different academic activities, courses, workshops, and education and training sessions on
human rights (and described their content), for members of the Peruvian National Police, the
Ministry of Defense, and the Armed Forces, including the Peruvian Army, Air Force and Navy, at
all levels. The State also listed, explained and gave details of the contents of the basic, higher
and advanced programs, as well as of the seminar, workshops and master’s degree program
that it has been offering in this area. In addition, it affirmed that steps had been taken to
provide training to judges on issues relating to gender and law. In this regard, it indicated that
the Peruvian Academy of the Judiciary had approved an amendment to its regulations, and had
incorporated courses on gender and law into the curriculum; thus, from basically being optional
courses, they would now be key courses in the training provided to judges and prosecutors.
326. The Court assesses positively the measures adopted by the State concerning human
rights training in different State institutions. 491 However, it recalls that, considered as a system
inhuman or degrading treatment, Institute of Forensic Medicine (evidence file, folio 6168); (v) Manual for the
assessment of psychological harm in adult victims of domestic or sexual violence, torture and other forms of
intentional violence of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of Peru (evidence file, folio 6179); (vi) Protocol for the
medical forensic examination to detect injuries or death as a result of torture (evidence file, folio 6188); (vii) Note No.
2520-2012-MP-FN-IML/JN of the Head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of August 27, 2012, advising that the
experts of the Forensic Clinical and Thanatology Divisions of the Criminalistics Unit “apply 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, by order of the Special Prosecutors Unit” (evidence file, folio 6161), and (viii) Report of the
Ministry for Women and Vulnerable Populations of August 29, 2012, recognizing that the Istanbul Protocol is
implemented in Peruvian public organizations (evidence file, folio 6255).
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Regarding the information provided by Peru on the implementation of human rights education programs, as
well as different academic activities, courses, workshops, and education and training sessions on human rights, 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 made a detailed assessment of the following evidence forwarded by the
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