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Resources Finder for Torture Victims, Asylum-Seekers, & Refugees
In helping torture survivors and those who seek asylum or find refuge in new countries, a major problem is quickly locating resources.
There are over 130 links below to resources such as:
- major centers (e.g., Program for Torture Victims, Los Angeles; Bellvue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture; Berlin Center for Treatment of Torture Victims; Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture),
- online courses (e.g., Caring for Refugees and Survivors of Torture: An Internet Course),
- legal services (e.g., Lawyers Without Borders; Human Rights First),
- information about asylum and refuge (e.g., U.S. Asylum Network; Asylum Law Resources; Immigration Resource Directory),
- networks of torture survivors (e.g., Survivors of Torture International; Torture Survivors Network),
- human rights organizations providing information and services (e.g., African Rights; Amnesty International; Asian Human Rights Commission; Coalition of International NGOs against Torture; Human Rights Hotline; RefugeeNet),
- guides to assessment (e.g., Health Professional's Guide to Medical and Psychological Evaluations of Torture; Manual on Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture), and
- other diverse resources.
Please follow this link for a related page on this web site containing over 130 citations of articles addressing Psychologists' & Physicians' Involvement in Detainee Interrogations.
Links to Online Resources for for Torture Survivors, Asylum-Seekers, & Refugees:
- Advocates for Survivors of Torture & Trauma
- Amani Community-based Care of Survivors of Torture and Organised Violence
- AMCHA Israeli Center for Holocaust Survivors
- American Association for the Advancement of Science Human Rights Action Network
- Amnesty for Women
- Amnesty International Canada
- Amnesty International Online
- Amnesty International UK
- Amnesty International USA
- Asian Human Rights Commission
- Association for Prevention of Torture
- Association for Services to Torture and Trauma Survivors
- Association for Solidarity With Asylum Seekers & Migrants
- Association of Refugees & Asylum Seekers of Ireland
- Asylum Network
- Asylum Support
- Bellvue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture
- Berlin Center for Treatment of Torture Victims
- Boston Center for Refugee Health & Human Rights
- Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture
- Canadian Council for Refugees
- Caring for Refugees and Survivors of Torture: An Online Course
- Center for Justice and Accountability
- Center for Multicultural Human Services Survivors of Torture and Trauma Program
- Center for Survivors of Torture, Dallas
- Center for Survivors of Torture & War Trauma, St. Louis, Missouri
- Center for Victims of Torture, Minneapolis
- Center for Victims of Torture, Nepal
- CINAT: Coalition of International NGOs against Torture
- Citizenship & Immigration Canada
- Danish Refugee Council
- Derechos Human Rights
- Detained Torture Survivor Legal Support Network
- Detention Watch Network
- Edmonton Center for Survivors of Torture and Trauma
- Electronic Immigration Network, U.K.
- Episcopal Migration Ministry Serving Refugees & Immigrants
- ETICA Treatment Centre for Traumatised Refugees, Migrants, and Danes (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- European Council on Refugees in Exile
- F.I.R.S.T. Project for Immigrants & Refugees Surviving Torture
- Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project
- Florida Center for Survivors of Torture & Refugees
- Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center
- Geneva Conventions
- Global Lawyers and Physicians for Human Rights
- Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma
- Health Professional's Guide to Medical and Psychological Evaluations of Torture
- Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
- Human Rights First
- Human Rights Hotline
- Human Rights Internet
- Human Rights Organizations Database
- Human Rights Watch
- Huridocs Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems, International
- Immigration Resource Directory
- International Center for the Protection of Human Rights
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- International Detention Coalition
- International Federation of Action by Christians Against Torture (FIACAT)
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
- International League for Human Rights
- International Refugee Program
- International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
- International Rescue Committee
- International Service for Human Rights
- Irish Refugee Council
- Istanbul Protocol: International Guidelines for the
Investigation & Documentation of Torture - Kenya Human Rights Commission Resource Center
- Kwazulu-Natal Programme for Survivors of Violence
- Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (see Human Rights First)
- Lawyers Without Borders
- Los Angeles Program for Torture Victims
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service
- Marjorie Kovier Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture of the Heartland (Chicago & the Midwest)
- Medact Refugeee Health Network
- Medical Evaluations of Asylum Seekers
- Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture
- Medical Justice: Seeking Basic Rights for Detainees
- National Center for PTSD
- National Immigration Law Center
- National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
- Norwegian Refugee Council
- Organization for Aid to Refugees, Prague, Czech Republic
- Organization for Defending Victims of Violence, Iran
- Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center
- The Phoenix Centre for Torture Survivors, Tasmania
- Physicians for Human Rights
- PILOTS: Searchable database of published literature on PTSD
- Program for Survivors of Torture & Severe Trauma
- Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma
- Redress
- Refugee Immigration Ministry, Boston
- Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims
- Responding to Victims of Torture: Clinical Issues, Professional Responsibilities, & Useful Resources
- Rights International: Center for International Human Rights Law
- RIVO: Intervention Network for People Having Been Subjected to Organized Violence
- Rocky Mountain Survivors Center
- Scholars at Risk Network
- Service Dogs For Victims of Assault (Note: Only survivors of specific types of torture will qualify)
- Sprog Center Denmark (language courses for traumatized refugees or survivors of torture)
- Survivors International
- Survivors of Torture International
- Torture (chapter published by Academic Press)
- Tortura Nunca Mais
- Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition
- Torture & Its Neurological Sequelae
- Torture & Psychological Health
- Torture Reporting Handbook
- Torture Treatment Center of Oregon
- Torture and War Trauma Survivors in Primary Care Practice
- Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture
- Traumatic Stress Institute
- Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre for Victims of Torture (TRC), Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine
- U.S. Committee for Refugees
- U.S. Conclusions and Recommendations of the Committee against Torture
- U.S. Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
- U.N. Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- U.N. Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights
- U.N. Human Rights
- U.N. Methods of Combating Torture
- U.N. Principles of Medical Ethics relevant to the Role of Health Personnel, particularly Physicians, in the Protection of Prisoners and Detainees against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization
- Vancouver Association for Survivors of Torture (VAST)
- Victoria Coalition for Survivors of Torture (VCST)
- Victorian Foundation for the Survivors of Torture
- Wellington Refugees As Survivors, New Zealand
- Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children
- World Legal Information Institute
- World Organization Against Torture
