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IN FOCUS: recovering from torture - one of IRAQ's many challenges
The establishment of rehabilitation services for torture victims
in Basrah in Iraq comes at a time when the country has many urgent
priorities regarding political structures, infrastructure, education
and health.
http://www.irct.org/usr/irct/home.nsf/unid/JREW-6BMEZM
Prevent impunity - train doctors and lawyers together!
The issue of torture and the plight of victims of torture have
been a central part of the agenda of the 61st session of the UN
Commission on Human Rights taking place in Geneva.
http://www.irct.org/usr/irct/home.nsf/unid/JREW-6B7H2L
Danish support to victims of torture in Iraq
The International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT)
is setting up rehabilitation services in Basrah to assist some
of the thousands of Iraqis who have been subjected to torture
during and following Saddam Hussein's regime.
http://www.irct.org/usr/irct/home.nsf/unid/JREW-6BEHGS
Scilingo's sentence breaks new ground in the fight against
torture
A Spanish Court convicted the Argentinean Ex-Naval Captain Adolfo
Scilingo to serve 640 years of imprisonment for crimes against
humanity and torture under the Argentine military government between
1976 and 1983. The sentence is of great relevance in the fight
against impunity for torturers and other perpetrators of international
crimes.
http://www.irct.org/usr/irct/home.nsf/unid/JREW-6BMJPY
Appeal to UN member-states: Victims of torture must obtain
redress and rehabilitation
Most victims of torture do not obtain reparation for the torture
they have suffered, although they have in principle a right to
receive adequate reparation, including restitution, legal redress,
compensation as well as rehabilitation, said Dr. Camelia Doru,
Vice President of the IRCT, in the organisation's oral statement
before the 61st session of the Human Rights Commission in Geneva,
which took place in the first week of April.
http://www.irct.org/usr/irct/home.nsf/unid/JREW-6B7H6H
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