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.
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Organizing summer camps to offer children a reprieve from violence
The Treatment and Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture (TRC) in Ramallah, in the West Bank, organizes a free summer camp to rehabilitate traumatized children. The camp offers recreational, artistic, and rehabilitative activities intended to help children deal with their personal traumas and fears, and support one another.
Training Paraprofessionals to work with torture survivors
The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) trains peer counselors to provide mental health services to refugees in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Recent conflicts in those countries produced massive displacement of people in the region.
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