The Tibetan Refugee Health Care Project is a non-political organization funded entirely by private donations. It was created in response to the dire and growing need for public health care for the Tibetan community-in-exile, living both in resettlement camps in India, and throughout the world, and to be a support for The Tibetan Government-in-exile, His Holiness The Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Department of Health. All projects are reported to them.
The NSHC`s main area of focus is in taking care of the needs of the most vulnerable people in Novi Sad and Vojvodina. Our priorities are children and youth, the disabled, single parents, families who have lost loved ones, the elderly, shut-ins, those suffering from illness, refugees and displaced persons, victims of torture and violence, the unemployed, the homeless, those deprived of their rights and the poor.
The goal of the International Trauma Treatment Program is to undermine the use of torture through establishing an international network of practitioners who fight torture by transforming torture victims into survivors. By preparing practitioners from war zones to treat, and to train other practitioners to treat, trauma survivors in their home countries, we seek to leverage our resources by creating a snowball effect that greatly increases the number of practitioners worldwide who fight torture.
The Johannes Wier Foundation is a Dutch human rights organisation for doctors, dentists, nurses and paramedics. The focus of the organisation is on the specific responsibility of all health care workers regarding human rights.
The International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organisations (IFHHRO) was established as a network of organisations with similar human rights agendas, upon an initiative of the Johannes Wier Foundation (the Netherlands) and Physicians for Human Rights (USA) in 1989. The organisation has affiliated and observer organisations; in 1996 the organisation was transformed into a federation.
The DMHI was founded in 1993, and was designated a South Dakota Board of Regents Center of Excellence in 1997. The mission of the DMHI is the promotion, development, and application of both practice and research in disaster mental health.
The mission of the Finnish Association for Mental Health FAMH is to promote mental health and to have good mental health considered essential on all levels of society and in all spheres of life.
The Refugee Therapy Centre provides help and support to refugees and asylum seekers. Mother tongue counselling and psychotherapy are available in a number of languages and our staff have intercultural support and supervision.
ECRE is a pan-European alliance of 82 NGOs protecting and advancing the rights of refugees, asylum seekers and displaced persons. Our mission is to promote the establishment of fair and humane European asylum policies and practices in accordance with international human rights law.
Animus Association Foundation is a women`s non-governmental organisation created to help victims of violence in Bulgaria. The team of the Foundation consists of clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, and social workers.
The Melaleuca Refugee Centre, Torture and Trauma Survivors Service of the NT provides an environment for the recovery of survivors of torture and trauma, their families and community, through confidential, high quality, holistic services.
The Cambodian Women`s Crisis Center (CWCC) is a local, non-governmental, non-profitable, and non-political organization. It was founded in Phnom Penh in March 1997 by a group of women who believed that violence against women and children was severe and that the assistance services were lacking.
Autonomous Women`s Center Against Sexual Violence was founded in Yugoslavia in 1993 with the primary aim to work with women raped in war, as well as to support women survivors of all kinds of male violence against women.
Action for Children in Conflict (AfCiC) works to break cycles of violence, hatred and despair by providing psychological, emotional and educational support to the survivors of conflict. AfCiC focuses its activities on children and young people, who have the greatest capacity to transcend the conflicts of their communities and to bring about change in the future.
APAV is a non-profit making and a charitable organisation. Its objective and primary statutory activity is to provide confidential and free services to victims of crime, namely information, counselling and emotional, legal, psychological and social support, at a national level.
ASPIS strongly believe that victims of crime, severe incidents, torture and war have a right to receive medical treatment and psychotherapeutic support irrespective of their financial situation and/or legal status.
The Genesis Project is a local non-governmental organization, set up in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in June, 1996. One of the organizations main goals is to help war traumatized children and their families.
MATESO treats the following client groups: victims of torture by law enforcement officials; victims of rape/sexual violence in police cells and prisons; and victims of domestic violence.
The primary objectives of VI.TO are:
*The early identification of torture survivors.
*Awareness-raising and training of staff at the national health service and other organisations on torture issues.
*Medical, psychological, legal and social assistance during the asylum-seeking process and once refugee status has been granted. Focus is on avoiding re-traumatisation and providing adequate care.
The Community Stress Prevention Centre (CSPC) in Israel was founded in Kiryat Shmona in 1981 with the aim of giving support to the population of the northern border (children, adults, education system, municipality, welfare, health and psychological services).
The primary objectives of EMPATHY are the identification of torture victims; treatment and medical/psychosocial rehabilitation of torture victims; prevention of torture and persecution of torturers; research and training; consultations and education; information and mass media activities; investigating allegations of torture, providing independent expertise and monitoring prisons/detention facilities; and networking and facilitating activities with governmental, non-governmental, international and local institutions working in the field of human rights and rehabilitation.
(from IRCT directory, page 40)
CPMRVT/SOPROP is an association which is dedicated to the effective struggle against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Our activities take place in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and in a small part of the South Kivu province, as the only NGO working in this field.
CRAT provides psychosocial support programmes for victims (all sectors of population), including refugees, depending on the availability of resources. Financial assistance can be provided to speed up the rehabilitation process.
This document is based on research conducted in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka between January and April 2001. (for historical reference)
VIVO works to overcome and prevent traumatic stress and its consequences within the individual as well as the community, safeguarding the rights and dignity of people affected by violence and conflict. vivo further aims to strengthen local resources for the development of peaceful, human rights-based, societal ways of living.
FIACAT brings together ACAT national associations from four continents, and has been serving them since 1987. FIACAT helps the ACAT network to thrive by encouraging exchanges between the various groups. It initiates joint actions and campaigns and organises regional and international training seminars. FIACAT represents ACATs in international and regional bodies or in Coalitions.
Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (ACAT-France) is an ecumenical organisation fighting against torture and the death penalty around the world and defending asylum rights (only available in French).
TPO Cambodia vision is to contribute to the development of Psychosocial and Mental Health Care in Cambodia within a local cultural context.
A Palestinian non-governmental, civil institution which focuses on human rights issues. Established in 1992 by a group of activists interested in human rights, the center`s activities focus on offering support for Palestinian prisoners, advocating the rights of political prisoners, and working to end torture through monitoring, legal procedures and solidarity campaigns.
The centre VIVRE is a project within an organisation called CAPREC. The purpose of the centre is to offer medical, social and legal assistance to victims of torture and violence, among them refugees, displaced people and local people.
OASIS is a private treatment center for traumatized refugees, asylum seekers and their families. OASIS holds a holistic view of refugees` suffering, which is reflected in the center`s interdisciplinary treatment model.
(only available in Danish) The center has since 1986 treated people that have been exposed to traumatic events such as torture, persecution, imprisonment, war, death threats and other forms of organized violence, and thus suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and a number of other complications.
DIGNITY’s vision is a world without torture. Their mission is to be the leading global organization for research-based prevention of torture, rehabilitation of traumatized victims, and documentation of serious human rights violations. (DIGNITY, former known as RCT.) DIGNITY is headquartered in Copenhagen and currently employs around 140 staff globally. We have active partnerships with more than 30 local and international NGOs and research institutions around the world.
Medica Mondiale acts to support traumatised women and girls in war and crisis zones and views its role as that of an advocate for the rights and interests of women who have survived sexualised wartime violence.
REDRESS helps torture survivors obtain justice and reparation. Reparation (including rehabilitation and compensation) plays an important part in the rebuilding of the lives of those who have suffered torture. Seeking legal redress also helps to combat the practice of torture by exposing torturers and the regimes which support them.
OMEGA intend to provide support, care and treatment for persons who have been victims of organised violence and systematic health and human rights violations, as well as for their relatives and children, in the social, legal, cultural, spiritual, medical, psychological and psychotherapeutic spheres.
PCATI was founded in 1990 by a prominent group of academics, human rights attorneys, human rights activists and professionals. PCATI works for the abolition of torture in interrogation and the restoration of full respect for human rights in Israel`s law and practices and aims at strengthening democracy and the rule of law by protecting human and civil rights. PCATI also aims at informing the public and raising public opposition to torture, altering the policies and practices on the issue of torture and ill treatment, and providing legal aid to victims of torture and ill treatment.
In 1991 the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) launched the Psychological Support Programme (PSP) as a crosscutting programme under the Health & Care Division. To assist the IFRC with the implementation of the programme, the Danish Red Cross and IFRC established the Reference Centre for Psychological Support as a centre of excellence in 1993
The Program for Torture Victim provides medical, psychological, and case management services to survivors of torture.