NATIONAL REPORT 2016
Implementation
targets
The right to rehabilitation
In order to fulfil its international legal obligations under the right to
rehabilitation, the Bolivian state should:
• Establish a legal provision that guarantees rehabilitation as a form of
reparation of torture and ill-treatment
• Establish a rehabilitation programme to support specialised services for
victimsof torture.
• Conduct a country-wide survey to identify the number of victims and their
needs for rehabilitation
• Provide financial support for the rehabilitation of victims of torture.
• Train psychologists, psychiatrists, doctors and lawyers in the area
of psycho-traumatology .
• Provide trainings and promote the Istanbul Protocol among health
profes-sionals, lawyers and judges.
Mental health in remote and rural areas
• In communities located far from the urban centres ITEI will work to
establish a network of elected mental health promoters from among the
members of the community, who will liaise with ITEI and receive training in
identifying signs of trauma and mental health conditions.
Armed forces
• The Government and the armed forces should establish complaints
procedures for members of the armed forces to be able to complain about
torture and ill-treatmentby other army personnel.
• Members of the armed forces who have been tortured or ill-treated must
also have a right to receive medical and psychological treatment in full
medical confidentiality.
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