CVT In the News
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CACI Fights ‘Unprecedented’ Abu Ghraib Torture Liability Ruling
Scott Roehm, director of CVT’s Washington, D.C., office, is quoted in an article by Daniel Seiden for Bloomberg Law.
Source: Bloomberg Law
Date: 04/25/2019 -
Healing the wounds of torture survivors through 'rights-based mental healthcare'
Sonali Gupta, clinical advisor for mental health with CVT Jordan, is featured in the OHCHR article, “Healing the wounds of torture survivors through ‘rights-based mental healthcare.’”
Source: OHCHR
Date: 04/24/2019 -
Trump’s Latest Attack on Refugees: Closure of Overseas Immigration Offices
Curt Goering, CVT executive director, decries the announced closure of critical overseas immigration offices.
Source: Medium
Date: 04/10/2019 -
Senator Markey, and Reps. Lofgren and Neguse Introduce Legislation to Welcome Refugees to the U.S.
CVT is listed among the supporters of the GRACE Act legislation introduced by Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (CA-19) and Congressman Joe Neguse (CO-02).
Source: The Office of Senator Edward J. Markey
Date: 04/09/2019 -
Reps. Neguse, Lofgren and Senator Markey Introduce Legislation to Welcome Refugees to the U.S.
CVT is listed among the supporters of the GRACE Act legislation introduced by Congressman Joe Neguse (CO-02), Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (CA-19), and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.).
Source: The Office of Congressman Joe Neguse
Date: 04/09/2019 -
Alumni Panelists to Explore Career Transitions During Reunion 2019
The work that Dr. Lisa Ragen Ide has done with CVT is included in a post at the Yale School of Medicine.
Source: Yale School of Medicine
Date: 03/26/2019 -
House Health and Human Services Policy Committee - part 1 3/15/19
CVT's Director of External Relations, Pete Dross, and Senior Clinician for External Relations, Alison Beckman, speak before the Minnesota House of Representatives’ Health and Human Services Policy Committee.
Source: MN House Info
Date: 03/18/2019 -
Collaboration, pilot program could expand the Center for Victims of Torture’s work in MN
An article at the MN House of Representatives’ Session Daily quotes CVT’s Pete Dross and Alison Beckman and describes legislation in progress which would “launch a collaboration between the center and Department of Human Services.”
Source: Session Daily
Date: 03/15/2019 -
Republican horse trading on 'national emergency' powers is nonsense
Linda Chavez, director of the Becoming American Initiative, and Scott Roehm, director of CVT’s Washington, D.C. office, call on Congress to terminate the president’s “emergency” and focus on the real border crisis.
Source: The Hill
Date: 03/13/2019 -
Case Studies: Tactical Mapping
Rally Interactive, the designers who worked with CVT’s New Tactics in Human Rights to create the Tactical Mapping Tool (TMT), have posted a case study to their website about their work on the TMT.
Source: Rally Interactive
Date: 03/05/2019
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