Press Releases
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CVT Welcomes the Refugee Protection Act of 2013
Posted: 03/21/2013
CVT welcomes the Refugee Protection Act of 2013 introduced today by Senator Patrick Leahy and Representative Zoe Lofgren. This leglisation would address some of the more significant legal challenges facing CVT clients who are seeking asylum.
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The Center for Victims of Torture Welcomes Three New Members to its Board of Directors
Posted: 03/12/2013
CVT announces that Michael MacLeod, Eric Schwartz and Julie Brunner have joined its Board of Directors.
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CVT Statement to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Posted: 02/13/2013
CVT Executive Director Curt Goering submitted a statement for the record to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for its February 13, 2013, hearing on “Comprehensive Immigration Reform.”
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CVT Statement on D/CIA Nominee John Brennan’s Waterboarding Evasion
Posted: 02/07/2013
CVT issued a statement in response to CIA Director nominee John Brennan’s refusal to call waterboarding a form of torture during his confirmation hearing today.
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Center for Victims of Torture Available for Comment on Torture and Cruel Treatment in Zero Dark Thirty
Posted: 01/03/2013
Curt Goering, executive director of CVT, is available for expert comment on the torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment depicted in the film, Zero Dark Thirty.
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CVT Statement on Senate Intelligence Committee’s Adoption of CIA Torture Report
Posted: 12/13/2012
The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) issued a statement in response to today’s vote by the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to adopt its report on the CIA’s detention and interrogation program after September 11, 2001.
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CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE TO PROVIDE HEALING SERVICES TO ERITREAN REFUGEE TORTURE AND WAR TRAUMA SURVIVORS LIVING IN ETHIOPIA
Posted: 11/27/2012
The Center for Victims of Torture today announced it will provide community-based mental health counseling to Eritrean refugee torture and war trauma survivors living in refugees camps near Shire in northern Ethiopia. The project will also build the capacity of local refugee health, mental health and social services providers to better identify and serve torture and war trauma survivors over the long term.
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CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE TO PROVIDE HEALING SERVICES TO REFUGEE TORTURE AND WAR TRAUMA SURVIVORS IN NAIROBI, KENYA
Posted: 10/23/2012
The Center for Victims of Torture announced it will provide community-based mental health counseling and physical therapy services to refugee torture and war trauma survivors living in Nairobi, Kenya. The project will also build the capacity of mental health, physical therapy and psychiatric care service providers to serve torture and war trauma survivors over the long term.
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CVT Makes Commitment to Action at Clinton Global Initiative to Heal Syrian Torture Survivors in Jordan
Posted: 09/24/2012
CVT today announced that it is making a Commitment to Action as part of the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting to expand its mental health and physical therapy services in Jordan to reach traumatized Syrian refugees.
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CVT Statement on Justice Department Ending Investigation into CIA Interrogations
Posted: 08/30/2012
Today’s announcement from Attorney General Eric Holder does not close the book on holding accountable those government officials who authorized and engaged in torture and cruel treatment.
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