Healing and Human Rights: A Blog by the Center for Victims of Torture
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Posted in Human Rights
Brent Jensen, online community coordinator for New Tactics in Human Rights, summarizes the ten most important considerations for NGOs working with photography as part of activism.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Posted in Washington, D.C., Torture Rehabilitation, Human Rights, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
Melina Milazzo, CVT senior policy counsel, comments on admission by ex-CIA senior official that the CIA employed torture techniques.
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Monday, July 27, 2015
Posted in Washington, D.C., Torture Rehabilitation, Human Rights
From across the nation, a group of psychologists, Grad Students Talk: Psychology Graduate Students Invested in Social Justice, are discussing current issues affecting our communities. The group conducts conference calls to discuss events and actions that are relevant in our communities. As a safe place for dialogue and ideas to be considered, Grad Students Talk has recently touched on the topic of torture.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Posted in Washington, D.C., Torture Rehabilitation, Human Rights, Immigration, Refugees
Marie Soueid, CVT legal fellow, looks at detention conditions for families seeking asylum.
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Friday, July 17, 2015
Posted in Washington, D.C., Torture Rehabilitation, Human Rights, Global Health, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
Marie Soueid, CVT legal fellow in the Washington, D.C. office, comments on recent event featuring photographic documentation of torture in Syria.
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Thursday, July 16, 2015
Posted in Torture Rehabilitation, Human Rights, Global Health, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
Curt Goering, CVT executive director, recalls the devastation in Bosnia twenty years ago, and notes the progress that has been made for healing and rebuilding.
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Friday, June 26, 2015
Posted in Torture Rehabilitation, Human Rights, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, Refugees, Minnesota
A brief look back at the founding of the Center for Victims of Torture.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Posted in Human Rights
Only John Oliver would enlist the elocutionary skills of an Academy Award-winning actor to compel people to read the U.S. Senate’s Report on CIA Torture, but even as it is narrated in Dame Helen Mirren’s soothing voice, the torture carried out by the CIA against its detainees during its cruel interrogation program, is still horrifying. On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver brought to a mainstream audience what professional interrogators, terror experts, rehabilitation experts, and survivors of torture all already know: the tale of torture’s effectiveness is “one of those movie tropes that’s got no basis in real life.”
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Thursday, May 7, 2015
Posted in Torture Rehabilitation, Human Rights, Global Health, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, Refugees
In honor of National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day, we’re sharing this article that was originally published in our Storycloth newsletter in November 2014.
Increasingly, our staff in Jordan is seeing children and young people who need mental health and physical therapy care to cope with their traumatic experiences. Now, more than a third of our clients in Jordan are under the age of 18. To help heal these young survivors, the counseling and physical therapy staff developed ten-week joint physical therapy/counseling groups that provide age-appropriate activities.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Posted in Washington, D.C., Torture Rehabilitation, Human Rights, Immigration, Refugees
Asylum and refugee officers are making decisions that can have serious consequences. My job is to help them understand what torture survivors have experienced so that they, in turn, can be sensitive to interviewing torture survivors while making wise and informed decisions.
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