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VIII. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ISTANBUL PROTOCOL ISTANBUL PROTOCOL

documented by independent, non-governmental including establishing the conditions necessary for
clinicians is accepted in judicial proceedings. implementation of the Istanbul Protocol; carrying
out effective legal, judicial and administrative
683. As previously stated, States can and should encourage reforms; ensuring the independence of State forensic
and support collaboration with civil society in their institutions and health agencies; establishing effective
remedial anti-torture actions, but members of civil monitoring activities; and facilitating cooperation,
society should not only rely on State initiatives to coordination and technical assistance between States
take independent remedial action. Members of civil and external actors. Special attention should be given
society, including human rights experts, lawyers to developing relevant psychological expertise that
and health professionals, should organize and work may be lacking in civil society. In States in which
together with international and regional human rights torture and ill-treatment are practised with impunity,
bodies and organizations to develop the necessary the provision of rehabilitation services typically falls
capacities within civil society to implement Istanbul on civil society organizations given the lack of trust
Protocol standards and other anti-torture activities. in government institutions. Rehabilitation services in
This includes applying the Istanbul Protocol and its many countries serve as focal points for a wide range
Principles in legal and medico-legal investigation and of anti-torture activities and should be supported
documentation of alleged torture and ill-treatment in for the key role that they play in the investigation
individual cases; using Istanbul Protocol standards and documentation of torture and ill-treatment
as a framework to hold States accountable for and its prevention, accountability and redress.
effective investigation and documentation practices,

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