Sentences with phrase «torture survivors»

Torturing personification of chronic pain among torture survivors.

I've treated torture survivors and refugees using the safety model of trauma treatment.

Other planned areas of training include: how to provide services to torture survivors, and how to bring a case before an international body.

Torture survivors, and those making the perilous journeys highlighted in the media, usually do not arrive in the UK with a pristine set of documentary evidence supporting their claim.

At Freedom from Torture we remain deeply concerned that torture survivors and other vulnerable groups will increasingly be unable to find quality, specialist legal representation.

In the UK, in 2017, the Home Secretary ignored medical expertise, basic humanity and the law to sign off a barbaric policy to lock up traumatised torture survivors.»

A study shows that a certain intervention called testimony therapy plus ceremony reduced symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression among Khmer Rouge torture survivors from across Cambodia.

Those eligible to seek refuge here are expected to include torture survivors, women and girls who have experienced or are at risk of sexual violence and people with disabilities.

Freedom from Torture has been concerned for many years about the ongoing and serious nature of accommodation problems for torture survivors who are asylum seekers.

We want torture survivors to be housed in areas where they have access to the specialist services they need to recover from torture.

Torture survivors receiving therapy at our centres continue to report unacceptable treatment.

Torture survivors remained in detention, despite clear evidence of their vulnerability and even though the Home Office has specific guidelines against this practice.

This is especially true of torture survivors who know what happens in societies where there are few boundaries against aggression and little recourse to the rule of law.

Freedom from Torture also helps the children of torture survivors who have been through great trauma.

Following the then Government's dispersal policy implemented in the year 2000, the organisation opened four centres across the UK to offer services to torture survivors living outside of London, and to share its knowledge with practitioners.

We will also be publishing material about participatory approaches with torture survivors including how to build, support and sustain more survivor - centred and survivor - led approaches to activism.

The letter was presented the week after the Independent Inspector of Prisons reported that torture survivors were being held at Harmondsworth immigration removal centre, and amid continuing reports of women detainees on hunger strike at Yarl's Wood.

Freedom from Torture and Spiritan Asylum Services Initiative Ltd (SPIRASI) were awarded a two - year grant in April 2015 towards «Rehabilitation services and exploration of best practice in treatment for adult torture survivors and their families in the UK and Ireland.»

We provide therapy and medical evidence to torture survivors living in the UK and we protect and promote torture survivors» rights.

The organisation expanded through the 1980s and 1990s, taking it onwards to fundraise for a place where torture survivors would have a real sense of care and calm.

Survivors Speak OUT (SSO) is a national network of torture survivors and former clients of Freedom from Torture.

Watch the A to Z of Poverty and hear from torture survivors themselves.

Every day our staff and volunteers work to help torture survivors recover.

The Strategic Grants Programme assists us in undertaking advocacy to improve Home Office and Tribunal decision - making for torture survivors seeking international protection in the UK.

Through this project, SPIRASI and Freedom from Torture are working together to provide access to a range of multi-disciplinary support to torture survivors in London and Dublin, including physical and psychotherapeutic treatment, psycho - social counselling, legal services and socioeconomic support to torture survivors.

An unclear or incomplete definition is likely to lead to more torture survivors being wrongly locked up in immigration detention.

«We hope that the Home Secretary will heed our call and halt the process to consult more widely towards a definition that will protect extremely vulnerable torture survivors.»

From rat infestations to shared bedrooms: sub-standard housing impedes torture survivors» recovery

Torture survivors and the Hostile Environment — how the Windrush scandal exposed the darkest corners of immigration policy

Giving your time, skills and creativity can help make a difference to the lives of torture survivors.

And we hope it is increased to a level sufficient to allow torture survivors to engage effectively with rehabilitation and begin their recovery.

This review has the potential to lift some 20,000 of the UK's most vulnerable people, including torture survivors like Marie, out of poverty.

Poverty, and the associated insecurity, experienced by torture survivors living on asylum support in the UK reinforces symptoms of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Like most of the 1,000 torture survivors currently in treatment at Freedom from Torture, she displayed severe symptoms of trauma including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety which greatly affected her daily functioning.

Freedom from Torture's Proving Torture report has highlighted the Home Office's failure to take proper account of expert medical evidence when assessing asylum claims, regularly resulting in torture survivors like me being denied the protection we need.

Her bill would create protections which are inclusive, applying to all torture survivors; preventive, rather than waiting for harm to occur; and effective, by introducing new measures to ensure the Home Office lives up to its promises.

We know that significant numbers of torture survivors continue to be detained, even though the Home Office says this should only happen in «very exceptional circumstances».

It is well documented that asylum seekers regularly face serious risk of harm as a result of being detained, with torture survivors particularly vulnerable.

We believe that there are policy changes which could play a role in supporting asylum - seeking torture survivors and refugees in coping with the reality of loneliness.

Firstly, we must rethink the hostile environment which faces asylum seekers and torture survivors.

The Home Office agrees that torture survivors shouldn't be detained, because of the heightened risks to their welfare, but their new «Adults At Risk» policy requires survivors to supply detailed evidence that they are likely to suffer harm before they can qualify for release.

Freedom from Torture handed the committee first - hand reports from torture survivors who had later been detained when they reached Britain.

In October, the High Court ruled that this narrower definition had led to torture survivors being wrongfully detained.

Some 69 full - time and 101 part - time staff and 190 volunteers work together across Freedom from Torture's five centres to help torture survivors to rebuild their lives.

We call on the Home Office to work with ourselves and other concerned organisations to fulfil Parliament's demand for strong measures to reduce detention of torture survivors and other vulnerable people in line with the Shaw Review which Theresa May ordered as Home Secretary.

Freedom from Torture welcomes this ruling that reaffirms the need for more robust safeguards against detention of torture survivors.

Freedom from Torture fears that the new torture definition will not protect torture survivors.

The indefinite nature of detention can be incredibly damaging to the mental health of torture survivors, creating despair and a sense of injustice.

Freedom from Torture receives message from Yarl's Wood detainee detailing planned protests against the detention of torture survivors as the Government lays plans to put the flawed torture definition, which will lead to more survivors being detained, before Parliament.

We fear that it will be unworkable and will result in the detention of torture survivors.