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Healing and Human Rights: A Blog by the Center for Victims of Torture

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Is Empathy Helping?

Friday, June 7, 2019

CVT's New Tactics in Human Rights raises this important and timely question.
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CVT at the Southern Border

Thursday, May 30, 2019

In mid-May, Andrea Cárcamo-Cavazos, CVT senior policy counsel, traveled to El Paso, Texas, on behalf of CVT to meet with asylum seekers in detention. Learn about who she met, what she saw and why the media isn’t paying the right kind of attention to what’s happening to asylum seekers at our southern border.
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Children in Chains: Advocating for Change in Georgia

Friday, May 17, 2019

Posted in Human Rights, Immigration, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support

Darlene Lynch, head of external relations, CVT Georgia, writes about action to oppose the deeply harmful practice of automatically shackling children in juvenile court.
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Finding “Furaha” (Happiness) at CVT Kakuma

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Read direct quotes from some of the torture survivor clients Justine Chepngetich. physiotherapist (physical therapist), worked with at CVT Kakuma this past year.
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CBP Cannot Act as Both Captor and Confidant

Thursday, May 9, 2019

Posted in Washington, D.C., Human Rights, Immigration

Andrea Cárcamo-Cavazos, senior policy counsel, pushes back against the Trump White House’s move to use CBP officers in the role of asylum officers.
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Ask a Social Worker: CVT’s Miriam Hauser on Working with Clients

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

CVT's Miriam Hauser on social work at CVT!
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“A Torture Chamber in the Sky”: Discussing the CIA’s Extraordinary Rendition Program

Thursday, April 18, 2019

A Q&A on the CIA's post-9/11 rendition and torture program, and why it still matters
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Updates from Kakuma: CVT's NEW Location in Kenya

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Posted in Human Rights, Refugees

Read highlights from field staff in Kenya's Turkana region.
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I Could See the Healing as it Happened

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Posted in Torture Rehabilitation, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support

Francis Lokong, monitoring & evaluation officer, CVT Uganda, writes about witnessing clients’ improvements in his research work.
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Trump’s Latest Attack on Refugees: Closure of Overseas Immigration Offices

Monday, April 8, 2019

Posted in Washington, D.C., Torture Rehabilitation, Human Rights, Immigration, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, Refugees

Curt Goering, CVT executive director, writes that the U.S. must keep the critical USCIS offices open.
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