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In helping torture survivors and those who seek asylum or find refuge in new countries, a major problem is quickly locating resources that fit the situation and the individual.
There are over 130 links below to resources such as:
- major centers (e.g., Program for Torture Victims, Los Angeles; Bellevue/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; Scholars At Risk Network; Online Know Your Rights Manual for Detained LGBT Asylum Seekers),
- 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; Women's Refugee Commission),
- 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 presenting the 2011 Annual Review of Clinical Psychology article: "Psychologists and Detainee Interrogations: Key Decisions, Opportunities Lost, and Lessons Learned"
Links to Online Resources 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
- Asylum Network
- Asylum Seekers Resource Centre for Australia
- Asylum Support
- Bellevue/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: A Free Online Course
- Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern Law School
- Center for Justice and Accountability
- 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
- Combating Torture: A Manual for Judges and Prosecutors
- Community Legal Services & Counseling Center: Asylum, VAWA, U-Visa, T-Visa; Cambridge, MA
- Derechos Human Rights
- Detained LGBT Asylum Seekers: Online Know Your Rights Manual
- 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
- European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- European Council on Refugees in Exile
- Examining Asylum Seekers: A Health Professional's Guide to Medical & Psychological Evaluations of Torture
- Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project
- Florida Center for Survivors of Torture
- Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center
- Foundation House: Victorian Foundation for the Survivors of Torture
- Geneva Conventions
- Global Lawyers and Physicians for Human Rights
- Guide to International Refugee Law Resources on the Web
- Heal Torture
- Health for Asylum Seekers & Refugees Portal
- Health Professional's Guide to Medical and Psychological Evaluations of Torture
- Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
- Human Rights Clinic
- Human Rights First
- Human Rights Hotline
- Human Rights Internet
- Human Rights Watch
- Huridocs Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems, International
- Immigration Legal Defense Services
- 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 Network for People Affected by Organized Violence
- International Refugee Rights Initiative
- 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
- Know Your Rights Manual for Detained LGBT Asylum Seekers
- 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
- Medact Refugee Health Network
- Medical Evaluations of Asylum Seekers
- Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture
- Medical Justice: Seeking Basic Rights for Detainees
- NAPSM Asylum Documentation Project
- National Asylum Partnership on Sexual Minorities: Defend the Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, & HIV-Positive Immigrants
- National Center for PTSD
- National Immigration Justice Center: You Have Rights
- National Immigration Law Center
- National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
- North Virginia Family Services: Survivors of Torture & Severe Trauma
- Norwegian Refugee Council
- Organization for Aid to Refugees, Prague, Czech Republic
- Organization for Defending Victims of Violence
- Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center
- Physicians for Human Rights
- PILOTS: Searchable database of published literature on PTSD
- Preventing Torture Through Investigation & Documentation
- Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma
- Redress
- Refugee Council, U.K.
- Refugee Immigration Ministry
- Refugees International
- Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims
- Responding to Victims of Torture: Clinical Issues, Professional Responsibilities, & Useful Resources
- 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)
- Shedding light on a dark practice Using the Istanbul Protocol to document torture (International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims)
- 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 Reporting Handbook
- Torture and War Trauma Survivors in Primary Care Practice
- 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. 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 Refugee Commission
- World Legal Information Institute
- World Organization Against Torture
