Each year CVT presents the Eclipse Award to an individual who has given extraordinary service on behalf of torture survivors.

• 2005 John Salzberg, Ph.D., has worked in human rights since 1973. Dr. Salzberg was the Congressional staff person who developed the legislation establishing the Human Rights Office and the annual State Department report. In 1992, he came to CVT first as a volunteer than as CVT's Washington DC representative. He played a key role in passage of the 1998 Torture Victims Relief Act and subsequent reauthorizations. John retired from CVT in December 2005 at the age of 70.

• 2004 Dr. Vincent Iacopino, director of research for Physicians for Human Rights and the principal organizer of an international effort to develop UN guidelines on effective documentation of torture and ill treatment (the Istanbul Protocol).

• 2003 Dr. Inge Genefke, founder of the Research and Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims in Copenhagen, Denmark, a predecessor of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims.

• 2002 Tony Reeler, founder and executive director of the Amani Trust, which treats survivors of torture in Zimbabwe. Because of threats to his organization, Mr. Reeler has been forced to leave Zimbabwe.

• 2001 Sister Dianna Ortiz, a founding member of the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition (TASSC) and a survivor of torture herself.