CVT In the News
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Walter Mondale: We are once again in a humanitarian refugee crisis
An OpEd by former Vice President Walter Mondale, which was originally published in the Washington Post, was also published in the Star Tribune. The article mentions CVT's research on torture prevalence among refugees in the U.S.
Source: Star Tribune
Date: 07/25/2019 -
‘Birds Sing Differently Here,’ Bringing Hope to Minnesota
Kahin Adam, Somali community educator and psychotherapist at CVT St. Cloud, is quoted in this article about the play “Birds Sing Differently Here.”
Source: American Theatre
Date: 07/25/2019 -
Walter Mondale: America has saved thousands of refugees. We must again.
An OpEd by former Vice President Walter Mondale mentions CVT’s research on torture prevalence among refugees in the United States.
Source: Washington Post
Date: 07/23/2019 -
'Catastrophic,' 'Beyond Shameful,' and 'Xenophobia-Fueled' Trump Admin. Panned Over Proposal to Slash Refugee Cap to Zero
Scott Roehm, director of CVT’s Washington, D.C., office, is quoted in this article from Common Dreams denouncing reports that the Trump administration is considering zeroing out the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program in Fiscal Year 2020.
Source: Common Dreams
Date: 07/19/2019 -
‘Catastrophic,’ ‘beyond shameful,’ and ‘xenophobia-fueled’ Trump administration panned over proposal to slash refugee cap to zer
Scott Roehm, director of CVT’s Washington, D.C., office, is quoted in a Common Dreams article, picked up by Raw Story.
Source: Raw Story
Date: 07/19/2019 -
ISD 88 Foundation names 2019 Hall of Fame inductees
Former CVT staff member and long-time supporter Kathy Bonnifield’s affiliation with CVT is cited in this article.
Source: The Journal
Date: 07/18/2019 -
‘A community of immigrants’: Loring Park hosts a timely Twin Cities World Refugee Day
Alexandra Sevett, CVT Risk Management and Facilities Coordinator, and CVT volunteer Dina Mousa, spoke with MinnPost reporter Jim Walsh as they represented CVT at the Minneapolis World Refugee Day event.
Source: MinnPost
Date: 07/15/2019 -
Asylum seekers at our southern border face egregious human rights violations daily
A MinnPost article by Andrea Cárcamo-Cavazos, CVT senior policy counsel, describes her recent visit to the U.S. southern border.
Source: MinnPost
Date: 07/11/2019 -
The second report---Deprivation and Dispair
The Guantánamo Blog, from the law office of H. Candace Gorman, posted the executive summary from the new CVT and PHR Guantánamo medical report.
Source: The Guantanamo Blog
Date: 07/11/2019 -
Deprivation and Despair: New Report Details Crisis of Medical Care at Guantánamo
Andy Worthington, an author and freelance journalist, wrote on his blog about the new Guantanamo medical care report from CVT and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR).
Source: Andy Worthington
Date: 07/05/2019
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