CAT/C/75 page 58 269. The staff of the Office of the Attorney-General participated actively in drafting the “model procedure for the medical examination of torture and other physical abuse”, together with the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT). 270. The Office of the Attorney-General then adapted and improved its “medical report on possible cases of torture and/or ill-treatment”. This process, known as “contextualization”, is governed by the international standards of the Istanbul Protocol, which prescribes universal standards for the medical investigation of torture. To this end, IRCT international experts were formally requested to review the medical report and they agreed to do so. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees also officially requested IRCT to evaluate the report. 271. It should be pointed out that the Office of the Attorney-General requested the technical assistance of the non-governmental organization Physicians for Human Rights (PHR-USA). 272. An ambitious programme which involves the following strategies is thus being implemented: 1. Finalizing the specialized medical report on cases of possible torture and/or ill-treatment; 2. Producing a users’ manual for the report. This will give medical experts from the Office of the Attorney-General the necessary technical information to document possible cases of torture and/or ill-treatment on the basis of international standards; 3. Conducting an intensive training programme for medical experts from the Office of the Attorney-General. This is particularly important because criteria for the investigation and reporting of possible cases of torture and/or ill-treatment by Office medical experts will be standardized as a result of the training provided by PHR-USA experts. The training programme will start in October 2002 on the basis of the following input: • The first beneficiaries of the programme will be 48 forensic pathologists. Five will come from civil society organizations, national human rights institutions and local public attorneys’ offices. The remainder are forensic pathologists from the Office of the Attorney-General of the Republic attached to State branches of the Office throughout the country; • There will be 13 internationally recognized lecturers; • The beneficiaries will receive working papers consisting of the preliminary version of the specialized medical report on cases of possible torture and/or ill-treatment, the users’ manual for the report prepared by the Office of the Attorney-General, selected articles on the topic of torture and a CD-ROM with photographs showing examples of cases of torture;