Description of Centers

Bangladesh Centre for Rehabilitation of Torture Survivors (CRTS)
Address:
B. B. Girls School road
Tangail, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh
Mailing Address:
Flat-2/C, Urban Heritage
House No. -29, Road No. -8
Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1205, Bangladesh
Telephone Number: 88-2-812 2272
Fax Number: 88-2-812 2272

Amidst Bangladesh’s human rights struggle, exists an organization providing services to its people. CRTS, which started in 1996, has a view of achieving healing to all torture victims. CRTS is able to meet their clients’ needs by providing medical treatment, psychotherapy, counseling and physiotherapy.

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Bulgaria, Assistance Center for Torture Survivors (ACET)
Address:
Belite brezi 7-9,
Zvanika Str., apt. 3,
Sofia, Bulgaria
1680
Telephone Number: (+359-2-) 958 46 36; 58 60 18
Fax Number: (+359-2-) 958 46 36

ACET, working out of Bulgaria, provides comprehensive services to survivors of torture and their family members. In 2001, ACET expanded its reach by launching a training program for police officers in the area of human rights and torture prevention. The efforts made at ACET, through treatment and community relations, is helping survivors to regain their lives and restore their sense of belonging to society.

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Cambodia, Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO)
Address
#20 Street 334
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Telephone Number: +(855) 23 218 478
Fax Number: + (855) 23 219 182

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Ethiopia, Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture (RCVTE)
Address:
PO Box 12618
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Telephone Number: 251-1- 527433
Fax Number: 251-1-525272

RCVTE, founded in 1993, works to rehabilitate torture survivors through the creation of services and advocacy on the eradication of all forms of torture. Located in Ethiopia, RCVTE is the only rehabilitation center for victims of torture, therefore they conduct workshops and training programs for health professions on the consequences of torture and the treatment of victims.

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Guatemala, Equipo de Estudios Comunitarios y Accion Psicosocial (ECAP)
Address:
30 Avenida 7-60, Zona 4 de Mixco
Villa Ereil, Casa #04
Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala
Telephone Number: (502) 459 3810 / 434 3261
Fax Number: (502) 434 3261
ECAP profile form is in Spanish.

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India, Shubhodaya Center for Victims of Torture and Violence
Address:
Basti Vikas Kendra, Private Colony, Sriniwaspuri
New Delhi
India
110065
Telephone Number: 00 91 11 26331526
Fax Number: 00 91 11 51638374

This center, based out of India, provides treatment and rehabilitative services to victims of torture and violence. The centers main activity is to organize training sessions, in efforts to enhance networking capability between professionals.

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Kenya, Independent Medico Legal Unit (IMLU)
Address:
David Osieli Road; Off Old Waiyaki Way, Westlands
PO Box 1271-00606
Nairobi, Kenya
Telephone Number: 254 20 4456048/9, 4441833
Fax Number: 254 20 444 5755

Founded in 1995, IMLU’s initial goal was to create awareness, after succeeding in that, they have moved on to providing direct care to torture survivors. IMLU is currently in the midst of providing training to police and prison officers, medical and law students, magistrates and judges. Through this training, professionals become better equipped to deal with human rights violations.

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Kosovo, Kosovo Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims (KRCT)
Address:
Adbyl Frasheri No. 42
Prishtine, UNMIK-Kosovo
Telephone Number: 381 38 243 707 / 038 243 708
Fax Number: 381 38 243 707

Since 1999, Kosovo has gone through a period of extensive transition. During this time, KRCT has assumed the position as the leading agent for the prevention of torture and rehabilitation of torture victims. KRCT is an independent, non-governmental and non-profit organization with the mission to provide treatment and rehabilitation for Kosovar torture and trauma victims, to build capacities of KRCT management and professional staff, as well as the different public sectors working in Kosova and to promote the respect of human rights for all Kosova ethnicities and to influence the prevention and eradication of torture.

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Namibia, People's Education, Assistance & Counseling for Empowerment
(PEACE)
Address:
26 Rhino Street
Windhoek North, Namibia
Mailing Address:
PO Box 50617 Bachbrecht
Windhoek, Namibia
Telephone Number: 264 61 371550
Fax Number: 264 61 371555

Founded in 1996, PEACE provides counseling and psychotherapy to ex-detainees and ex-combatants on both sides of the struggle for Namibia's liberation and other victims of violence. PEACE seeks to provide access to counseling and therapy, increase public awareness regarding trauma, and build capacity of front-line workers (police officers, social workers, and teachers) through training in order to contribute to a more tolerant society and Namibian development.

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Pakistan, Sach-Struggle for Change
Address:
House #27, Main Park Road, I-8/3
Islamabad, Pakistan
Telephone Number: 92 51 4430142
Fax Number: 92 51 4447400

Sach-Struggle for change, a non-government organization in Pakistan, has a vision of a torture free society, where human beings, especially the marginalized, can live with dignity. In order to achieve this objective, they work to raise consciousness against torture, violence and other cruel inhuman treatments and punishments.

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Palestine, Treatment and Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture (TRC)
Address:
Al-Ersal St. Al-Isra'a Building, 7th Floor
PO Box 468
Ramallah, West Bank
Telephone Number: +972 2 2963932,2961710
Fax Number:+972 2 2989123

TRC is a Palestinian non-governmental, non-profit institution providing psychosocial services to survivors of torture and other forms of politically-motivated violence. TRC is the first and only center of its kind in the West Bank that provides services to torture survivors, their families, and their communities. The center also works to raise awareness and understanding about mental health and human rights issues.

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Peru, Center of Psychosocial Treatment (CAPS)
Address:
Caracas 2380
Jesus Maria
Lima 11, Peru
Telephone Number: (51 1) 462-1700 / 462-1600
Fax Number: (51 1) 261-0297

CAPS, located in Peru, works to contribute to the psychosocial recuperation of people affected by political and social violence. In Peru, social and political violence is widespread, therefore CAPS provides training to other professionals, who in turn are able to reach a far greater amount of affected people.

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Romania, ICAR Foundation
Address:
70, Unirii Bd, bloc J5
Sector 3
Bucharest, Romania
030836
Telephone Number: + 40 21 321 22 21
Fax Number: + 40 21 327 54 74

ICAR foundation was founded in 1992, and since then it has been the only organization in Romania that provides treatment for torture survivors. ICAR foundation provides medical, psychological, legal and social rehabilitation services to torture survivors. Through the work of the professional staff, ICAR foundation works to promote the rights of torture survivors.

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Rwanda, Forum for Activists Against Torture (FACT)
Address:
KUBAHO Plaza
Kacyiru Rue 729 Umuganda
BP 4580
Kigali, Rwanda
Telephone Number: +250 51 18 30
Fax Number: +250 51 18 31

FACT-Rwanda fights against torture and organized violence by recognizing and treating victims of torture and organized crime. In order to achieve this goal, services are provided through medical care, psychosocial care and legal services. FACT-Rwanda provides a unique treatment plan for each survivor, which lasts until the patient is no longer in need.

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South Africa, Profile of the Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture
Address:
Cowley House, 126 Chapel Street
Mailing Address:
PO Box 13124 Woodstock
7925 Cape Town, South Africa
Telephone Number: +27-21 465 7373 / 082 567 1456
Fax Number: +27-21 462 3143

The trauma center, located in South Africa, works to relieve the traumatic stress of those affected by violence. The center provides mental health services to individuals, groups, families, communities and institutions that have experienced, or are affected by violence and human rights violations. The mission of the organization is to provide psychological, social and medical assistance to survivors of political violence in the Western Cape.

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Uganda, African Centre for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (ACTV)
Address:
Kira Road Kamwokya
Plot No. 107
PO Box 6108
Kampala, Uganda
Telephone Number: 256 31 263918/9
Fax Number: 256 41 533 189

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