CAT/OP/BOL/3/Add.1
150. Since March 2017, in coordination with the Service for the Prevention of Torture
(SEPRET), training has been provided internally to all staff of the Public Defender Service
and then extended nationwide “introduction to prevention of torture,” in order to create
mechanisms for receiving complaints from persons who have been the victims of torture
and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in detention centres, prisons,
special establishments, institutions for adolescents in conflict with the law or any other
institutions.
IV. Recommendation made in paragraph 54
151. The Plurinational Public Defender Service attaches importance to providing
specialized criminal defence services for adolescents in conflict with the law and has
incorporated into the Protocol for Public Defenders a section on this group, which
constitutes a practical tool for the exercise of a technical defence, based on a restorative
approach that includes the protection of the rights of adolescents and compliance with due
process.
152. As a result, since 2016 various courses have been provided to public defenders to
specialize in criminal justice for adolescents.
Number
Course
Defenders trained
1
Specialized training on adolescents in the criminal justice system
and the role of the Public Defender Service.
50
2
Refresher course for legal practitioners on the criminal justice
system for adolescents.
44
3
Diploma in criminal justice for adolescents with a specialization
in restorative justice.
17
153. At the national level, public defenders have been assigned responsibility for
following up and dealing with the cases of adolescents in conflict with the law.
V. Recommendation made in paragraph 110
154. The Office of the Deputy Minister for Campesino, Original and Indigenous Justice
submits report MJTI-VJIOC No. 320/2017 (annex No. 3), which notes the following.
155. The Patriotic Agenda 2025 is the Government’s long-term plan and is made up of 13
fundamental pillars that guide the entire State planning system. The objectives and targets
of the Ministry of Justice and Institutional Transparency’s Strategic Institutional Plan
include fulfilling pillars 1, 5, 11 and 12 concerning the eradication of extreme poverty;
community and financial sovereignty and sovereignty and transparency in public
administration based on the principles of not stealing, not lying and not being lazy and the
full enjoyment of our festivals, our music, our rivers, our jungle, our mountains, our snowcapped peaks, our clean air and our dreams.
156. The Economic and Social Development Plan sets out the general guidelines for the
comprehensive development of the country with a view to the Good Life, and is intended to
frame the actions of public, private, community, social and corporate actors and social
organizations, including organizations of the campesino, original and indigenous nations
and peoples, and intercultural and Afro-Bolivian communities.
157. The Sectoral Comprehensive Development Plan for the Good Life 2016–2020
comprises strategic objectives and actions that contribute to the results, targets and pillars
of the Economic and Social Development Plan 2016–2020, the operationalization of the
Constitution and the implementation of the Ministry of Justice and Institutional
Transparency’s Strategic Institutional Plan 2016–2020.
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