Corina Simon has been with PATRIR full-time since September 2005 after finishing her BSc in Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babes – Bolyai University, Cluj – Napoca. She coordinates the Cooperative Peace Project in Moldova-Transdniestria at PATRIR and the Secretariat of the Global Alliance for Ministries and Organization: PATRIROrganization website: http://www.patrir.ro

This notebook describes how one organization (ICAR) in Romania was able to pressure the government to accept its moral and legal obligation to provide care to torture victims.  The group had international support but they recognized that it was the states responsibility to rehabilitate this socially marginalized group.