Role of forensic and medical sciences in the investigation prevention torture and other ill-treatment 2014, para. 72b
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[Recommendations regarding capacity-building and training:] Enhance the skills of health and legal professionals on the effective medical documentation of torture and other ill-treatment through training on the use of the Istanbul Protocol and other relevant materials to forensic pathologists, medico-legal officers, general practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists, Ministry of Health officials and social workers; as well as lawyers, State investigators, prosecutors, judges, prison officials, police officers, immigration officers, NGO activists, members of national human rights commissions and similar bodies, representatives of the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of the Interior.
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Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment