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Support for TortureVictims

The primary objective of the “Support for TortureVictims” association and the individual outpatient clinics is to help refugee victims of torture and war overcome their traumatic experiences, thus enabling them to regain control of their life.

http://www.torturevictims.ch/

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Disabilities among Refugees and Conflict-Affected Populations

Womens refugee commission

Reveals a disparity between refugee camps and urban areas: in camps there is a greater awareness about the needs of the disabled and better services than in urban environments, where refugees with disabilities are unable to access services offered by the host government and virtually no one is providing special assistance to them. The Women’s Refugee Commission also found greater discrimination and stigmatization towards the mentally disabled population; assistance programs, when available, tend to focus on those with physical and sensory disabilities.

https://cms.emergency.unhcr.org/documents/11982/43580/Disability+among+refugees+and+conflict-affected+populations/2700f6f2-1e65-4ea5-9e86-cb86aada7462

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Rehabilitation as a form of reparation under International law

Clara Sandoval Villalba, Redress

The Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparations for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law (Basic Principles) further clarify this right. These Principles indicate the types of reparation that may be needed, depending on the particular circumstances of the case, to afford adequate and effective reparation to victims, explicitly recognising five forms of reparation for such violations: restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction and guarantees of non-repetition.

http://www.redress.org/downloads/publications/The%20right%20to%20rehabilitation.pdf

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Where there is no Psychiatrist

Vikram Patel, 2003

Attitudes towards mental illness have changed, with more people coming forward for treatment. Despite this positive development, access to mental health care in low-income countries is still extremely poor and there is a serious shortage of mental health care workers. However, most of these countries have large numbers of community workers who could be deployed to deliver mental health care if they had the necessary knowledge and skills. Where there is no Psychiatrist might go some way in Providing such knowledge and skills.

http://www.asksource.info/pdf/30256_wherethereisnopsych_ch1_2003.pdf

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Rapid Assessments of Mental Health Needs After Disasters

Derrick Silove and Richard Bryant

Screening for PTSD among survivors of disasters in developing countries, especially in acute situations, has faced a number of common criticisms; psychological trauma is a western concept that may be unfamiliar to other cultures. PTSD has limited diagnostic validity because culturally diverse communities do not have equivalent terms for the constellation or for the individual symptom domains of the disorder (4 pages).

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/296/5/576?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=mental+health+human+rights&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=20&resourcetype=HWCIT

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Study Group Guide for Psychotherapy with Torture Survivors

Andrea Northwood,

Andrea Northwood, CVT. This guide was developed over the course of several study groups. It contains the curriculum used for the nine group meetings, each of which focuses on a core component of psychotherapy with survivors of politically motivated torture who are living in exile. While it is useful to have case material from which to learn, it is not necessary to be doing clinical work with torture survivors in order to use this curriculum.

http://www.healtorture.org/sites/healtorture.org/files/2-StudyGuideWord.pdf

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Evaluation of psychological support for victims of sexual violence in a conflict setting: results from Brazzaville, Congo

Sarah Hustache1 et al.

Little is known about the impact of psychological support in war and transcultural contexts and in particular, whether there are lasting benefits. This article present an evaluation of the late effect of post-rape psychological support provided to women in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.

http://www.ijmhs.com/content/3/1/7

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Guidelines for medico-legal care for victims of sexual violence

WHO

Health professionals can use the guidelines as a day-to-day service document and/or as a tool to guide the development of health services for victims of sexual violence. The guidelines can also be used to prepare in-service training courses on sexual violence for health care practitioners and other members of multidisciplinary teams.

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2004/924154628X.pdf

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Shattered lives – Immediate medical care vital for sexual violence victims

MSF

Finding immediate care is critically important after a sexual assault. The provision of medical care within days after rape is vital to limit serious consequences for the victims: treatment to prevent HIV infection has to start within three days, emergency contraception is possible within five.

https://issuu.com/msfsouthafrica/docs/shattered-lives

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Handbook for repatriation and reintegration Activities

UNHCR, Amadou Tijan Jallow

The Handbook for Repatriation and Reintegration Activities (the Handbook) is a guide for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and partner staff in the field to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate repatriation and reintegration activities.

http://www.unhcr.org/home/PARTNERS/411786694.pdf

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