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the related legislation. Training programmes have been prepared both for candidates for the
post of judge and for administrative staff due to commence their duties on 19 June of the
current year.
92.
The training programme designed for successful candidates in the competitive
examination for the specialist post of sentence enforcement judge was drawn up and
implemented in conjunction with the Institute of Legal Studies.
(d)
Dissemination
93.
In coordination with the Institute of Legal Studies of the Federal District High
Court, ABC Radio has produced and broadcast on AM frequency 760 kHz, as part of the
Know Your Rights project, 19 radio programmes, 11 of which dealt specifically with the
role of enforcement judge. Information and dissemination projects relating to the
implementation of the related reform have also been formulated with a view to the
allocation of resources of the Federal District High Court for the 2011 fiscal year.
94.
Work has been carried out with the Office of the Attorney-General and the Public
Defence Office of the Federal District on developing a project specially designed to
publicize and disseminate information on the implementation of the 2011 constitutional
reforms in criminal matters, which, although not wholly concerned with the role in
question, encompassed the entire accusatorial system of criminal justice. This proposal was
submitted to and approved by SETEC for an amount of 1.8 million pesos and these funds,
which will be chargeable to the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federal District, are
to be disbursed by the Federal District Technical Secretariat as the implementing unit for
the criminal justice system in the Federal District.
95.
A forum on the role of enforcement judge in Mexico’s new criminal justice system,
organized and conducted in cooperation with the Institute of Legal Studies, took place
on 18 and 19 May 2011. Also, a forum on sentence enforcement judges was held on 20
and 21 June 2011 in collaboration with the National Institute of Criminal Sciences.
6.
Reforms in Mexico state
96.
With regard to legislative work in the area of torture prevention in Mexico state, the
presentation was announced on 13 February 2012 of a legislative package on human rights,
including reforms in criminal matters to combat and punish torture, drawn up in conformity
with the international standards set forth by the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights and in the Istanbul Protocol with the primary aim of ensuring the observance of the
highest global human rights standards for the prevention and punishment of acts of cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment committed by any authority. This legislative package was
published on 30 March 2012 in the official state gazette.
97.
As part of the steps taken pursuant to the constitutional reform of the criminal justice
system published in the Official Gazette of the Federation on 18 June 2008 to ensure due
process for torture victims in order to guarantee the assessment of evidence of torture,
Mexico state has commenced implementation of the oral accusatory or adversarial system
of criminal justice as provided for in that reform, including the preparation of guidelines for
the protection of victims during both the investigation stage and the trial, which are fully set
out in article 20, section C, of the Federal Constitution. These guidelines are as follows:
“I. Provision of legal advice to the victim, notification of the rights available to the
victim under the Constitution and, whenever the victim so requests, communication
of information on the conduct of the criminal proceedings;
II. Cooperation with the public prosecution service to ensure that it has access
during both the investigation and the trial to all evidence and facts in the victim’s
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