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17 Mar 2008Efforts to introduce legislation that would allow torture survivors to hold perpetrators liable for damages in the UK courts has been backed by the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture.
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06 Mar 2008Torture surviving mothers and their children highlights International Women's Day at the Medical Foundation, March 2008.
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04 Mar 2008A landmark ruling from the European Court of Human Rights reaffirming the absolute prohibition on returning people to countries known to practice torture has been welcomed by the Medical Foundation.
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14 Feb 2008Pursuing military tribunals against the suspected 9/11 attackers pushes aside basic principles of human rights and makes a mockery of open and honest justice, the MF warns.
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31 Jan 2008Plans to review the UK government policy which currently places immigration concerns ahead of the best interests of asylum seeking children have been welcomed by the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture.
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07 Jan 2008The experiences of torture surviving children must be sensitively considered by specialist case owners, not left as silent histories buried within family asylum claims, the MF says.
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17 Dec 2007A former political prisoner who was detained and tortured for almost six years by Burma's military junta has spoken of his fears for those who are still being held if the momentum for justice is lost.
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29 Nov 2007A Ugandan woman who narrowly escaped death at the hands of the unrelenting torturers that killed her husband and abducted her children has had her story published in a seminal new book.
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22 Nov 2007Writer and broadcaster John McCarthy has been recognised for his invaluable support of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture in Britain's Most Admired Charities awards.
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22 Nov 2007A House of Lords ruling that allows the Government to remove Darfuri asylum seekers from the UK does not give enough assurances about their security to warrant their return, the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture warns.
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22 Nov 2007Vulnerable asylum seekers are being exposed to serious abuses because of a consistent failure by the private contractors who detain them to ensure that complaints are independently investigated, the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture says.
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08 Nov 2007Plans to introduce charges for basic medical treatment could endanger the lives of torture survivors and would make doctors unofficial arbiters of an immigration policy that prioritises cost cuts over health care, the Medical Foundation warns.
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08 Nov 2007Art work donated by some of today's most sought after names helped the Medical Foundation beat all expectations at its latest auction, raising £60,000.
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05 Nov 2007Children who have survived torture and who are unaccompanied asylum seekers in the UK are at risk of further traumatisation and return to the very countries they fled because of a lack of access to appropriate legal representation.
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22 Oct 2007Writers who have been praised on the literary circuit for their reflections on lives of pain and exile appeared alongside Sheffield novelist Lesley Glaister at this year's Off the Shelf festival.
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16 Oct 2007A lengthy report on BBC Radio Four's drive time PM programme, later repeated on the World Service and Five Live, has drawn attention to the MF's work with former child soldiers.
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21 Sep 2007Key safeguards must be introduced to protect asylum seekers fleeing torture from further unnecessary suffering at the hands of the UK immigration authorities, the Medical Foundation urges.
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20 Aug 2007Born to suffer. That was one of the lines composed by young teenage clients of the Medical Foundation during a series of powerful sessions in which they laid bare feelings of lost lives and uncertain identities which were then transformed into music by rock icon and long-term MF supporter, Skin.
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07 Aug 2007Exiled writers, flourishing poets and novelists who have forged new identities through their work will be sharing their talent at two key events on Edinburgh's literary scene.
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17 Jul 2007The Government appears to be retreating from its undertaking that asylum seekers who have survived torture will only be detained in "exceptional circumstances" by listing four sets of circumstance in which they may be held.