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02 Feb 2010The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims Torture (MF), the UK’s only rehabilitation centre dedicated solely to treating survivors of torture, has been granted £193,615 to support some of its most vital services.
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09 Dec 2009Women survivors of torture are being denied justice due to failures in countries around the world to uphold their human rights and to respond to their rehabilitation needs, according to new research by the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (MF).
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29 Oct 2009The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture condemns unreservedly the failure of Zimbabwe to permit entry to the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak
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14 Oct 2009The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (MF) has echoed the concerns of a new study revealing the damaging physical and psychological impact of detention on children held in UK Immigration Removal centres.
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14 Aug 2009The 1951 Refugee Convention does not require a torture-surviving asylum seeker to provide concrete evidence of past persecution or torture. Increasingly, however, for survivors to be able to claim their right to protection as refugees, they must corroborate their testimony with independent evidence of their torture.
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04 Aug 2009While efforts to unearth the truth about the UK government's role in the torture of terrorism suspects are to be welcomed, the plight of countless other lesser known torture victims should not be forgotten, says the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture.
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01 Jul 2009The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture supports calls to close legal loopholes which allow people suspected of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes to gain sanctuary in the UK.
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29 Jun 2009The Medical Foundation's Scotland centre has been shortlisted for the 3rd Annual Scottish Charity Awards as an organisation that has made significant achievements in the past year.
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26 Jun 2009People compelled to seek refuge in the UK as a result of escaping torture and organised violence face a raft of challenges in integrating in British society because of a lack of adequate care and support. That was the message from the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture on June 26, UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
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22 Jun 2009The second reading of the Torture Damages Bill in the House of Commons is a reminder of the vital role of justice in effective rehabilitation, says the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (MF).
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15 Jun 2009Men, women and children who have been forced into exile are battling an increasing number of obstacles that breach their human rights and seriously impede their efforts to rehabilitate after surviving severe physical and psychological abuse, warns the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (MF) in its 2009 annual review.
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18 May 2009Medics who stood by and allowed people to be tortured during the "war on terror" should be subject to public scrutiny and criminal prosecution, says the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (MF).
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15 Apr 2009Detention, torture and the policy of mandatory conscription is forcing an increasing number of Eritrean citizens into exile, according to a new report, which includes information gathered from the testimonies of clients seen by the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture.
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09 Apr 2009People fleeing the violent conflict in Sri Lanka are presenting with increasingly pronounced scars as a result of torture, with a significant number having been persecuted in ways not previously seen by doctors at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture.
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02 Apr 2009Individuals and organisations which liaise with victims and witnesses at the International Criminal Court deserve greater recognition and protection from the risks they face, says the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture.
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01 Apr 2009The therapeutic importance of justice for survivors of torture has been highlighted by the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture in a report to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR).
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27 Mar 2009A police investigation into MI5's alleged complicity in torture does not go far enough, warns the Medical Foundation, which says that only a full judicial inquiry, as well as scrutiny by international mechanisms, will restore confidence in Britain's commitment to the absolute ban on torture.
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11 Mar 2009The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture has joined calls for an urgent public inquiry into a growing body of evidence that suggests UK authorities have played a role in the torture of terror suspects over the past eight years.
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11 Feb 2009The Government's determined silence in the face of mounting allegations over its complicity in torture should ring alarm bells, warns the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (MF).
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28 Jan 2009Perico Rodriguez was tortured for three years following the military coup in Argentina in 1976. In December last year - more than 30 years later - he was one of a handful of survivors to bear witness to the crimes of the military junta when he testified at the trial of eight perpetrators, including one of his tormentors.