Healing Hearts, Creating Hope Celebration

HealthEast Roselawn Clinic is proud to partner with the Center for Victims of Torture to launch a new program, Healing Hearts, Creating Hope, a three-year collaborative partnership to provide on-site mental health services to local Karen refugees. 

Healing Hearts, Creating Hope will help these refugees gain access to coordinated specialized mental health and case management services by placing CVT psychotherapists and social workers directly in the HealthEast Roselawn Clinic. 

Statement on Vice President Biden's Support for Making Public Senate Intelligence Committee’s Report on CIA Torture

CVT issued a statement in response to a April 27, 2013, news article from Roll Call reporting that Vice President Joe Biden supports making public the Senate Intelligence Committee’s review of the Central Intelligence Agency’s detention and interrogation program after September 11, 2001.

Humanitarian Intervention

The U.S. government is frequently called upon with requests for humanitarian intervention by foreign governments, the international NGO community, and various other groups. As such, many are calling for the U.S. to adopt a “responsibility to protect” doctrine. “R2P”, as it has come to be known, raises serious questions about intervention on strictly humanitarian grounds: Is it legal? What are the ethics of using military force in response to human right violations? When and who should intervene? And finally, is it even effective?

Statement on Remarks Defending Bush-era Torture and Rendition at Bush Library Dedication

In response to a videotaped interview with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defending the Bush Administration’s use of torture and rendition during the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on Thursday, Curt Goering, executive director of the Center for Victims of Torture, issued this statement.

Table Captain Kick-Off for Restoring Hope Breakfast

We invite you to explore the possibility of being a Table Captain for CVT’s Restoring Hope Breakfast. This annual event helps us raise awareness and financial support for our work. This year’s breakfast will be held on Thursday, October 3 and we are hosting this event to explain what a Table Captain does and more information about the Restoring Hope Breakfast. The Table Captain Kick-Off is sponsored by CVT board members Dick Senese and C. Scott Cooper

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We advocate for the protection & care of torture survivors and an end to torture.

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