CAT/C/PER/CO/5-6 (c) Ensuring that health professionals are aware of and informed about the protocols regarding legal abortions by the Ministry of Health and guarantee immediate and unconditional treatment for persons seeking emergency medical care; (d) Eliminating the practice of extracting confessions for prosecution purposes from women seeking emergency medical care as a result of illegal abortion and penalizing medical personnel for the exercise of their professional responsibilities; (e) Enhancing its provision of family planning information and services and conducting a broad public campaign to raise awareness about cases when therapeutic abortions are legal and the administrative framework to access them. The State party should accelerate all current investigations related to forced sterilization, initiate prompt, impartial and effective investigations of all similar cases and provide adequate redress to all victims of forced sterilization. Impunity for acts of torture and ill-treatment during the internal armed conflict 16. The Committee is gravely concerned at the slow progress of establishing accountability for the estimated 70,000 deaths or enforced disappearances during the internal armed conflict from 1980 to 2000, and at the very small number of convictions and high rate of acquittals in cases prosecuted. It is further concerned at the slow pace of exhumations, identification of and return of bodies to their relatives and the scarcity of qualified personnel. It is also concerned at the requirement by the National Criminal Court that evidence be direct and documentary, and its unwillingness to credit the testimony of victims or their relatives. The Committee is seriously concerned at the absence of full cooperation of the Ministry of Defence to furnish information relevant for the investigations, including lists of army officers present in patrols and army bases in different regions affected by the conflict, and to inform on the aliases and code names frequently used by military officials. While taking note of the introduction of the Victim and Witness Assistance Programme and acknowledging the challenges and difficulties, the Committee is concerned that lack of effective implementation prevents courts from obtaining testimonies and that there are no special measures to protect victims of torture. It is concerned further at the underreporting of cases of sexual violence against women and girls during the armed conflict, the limited number of investigations, the absence of sentences and the lack of effective redress to victims of sexual violence during the conflict. It is also concerned that rape is the only form of sexual violence that may give rise to individual economic compensation under Law No. 28592 and that all forms of sexual violence are not covered by the law on reparation. The Committee takes note that the State party ratified the Rome Statute in 2001, but is concerned that Bill No. 1707/2007/CR on rape as a crime against humanity, was submitted to Congress in 2007, but has not been passed to date (arts. 2, 12, 13, 14 and 16). The State party should enhance its efforts to investigate, prosecute and bring to justice the perpetrators of human rights violations, including torture, during the internal armed conflict and ensure the access to truth, justice and compensation for victims. It should strengthen the capacity of the specialized judicial subsystem established for this purpose to conduct trials in an impartial, public and transparent manner, in accordance with international law. It also recommends that the Institute for Legal Medicine enhance its specialized forensic teams to accelerate the exhumations and analysis of human remains, their identification and handing over to relatives. The Committee urges the Ministry of Defence to cooperate with the prosecutors and judges and invites the National Criminal Court to reconsider its criteria for obtaining evidence in cases of human rights violations. Witnesses and victims should be protected and provided with sufficient financial resources under the witness protection programme. The State party should enhance the investigation and 6