News archive for 2000
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Some of Britain's best selling authors will make a unique donation to charity later this year by auctioning off the name of a character in their next book to bidders keen to see themselves immortalised in print.
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An exhibition of work by "unofficial war artist" Peter Kennard on behalf of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture opens at the Royal College of Art in London next month.
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Detailed medical examinations of Sikh asylum seekers arriving in Britain by doctors from the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture refute claims made yesterday [Aug.02] by the Indian High Commissioner Mr Nareshwar Dayal that torture does not occur on the sub-continent.
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The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture is delighted at the decision of Chile's Supreme Court to strip General Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution.
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A report which challenges the findings of the neuropsychological exam carried out on former Chilean Head of State Augusto Pinochet for the Home Office, have been entered into court proceedings in Chile.
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Discrimination that may range from subtle hostility through to outright rejection and xenophobia is helping to marginalise refugee health care, warns one of Britain's leading family therapists.
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Expert forensic medical evidence gathered by Britain's only organisation dedicated to helping victims of torture and organised violence verifies accounts of persecution of eastern European Roma, it was revealed today [subs: 07.06.00].
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The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture has challenged the Home Office to spell out the basis for a claim in the latest asylum statistics issued today [subs: 06.26.00] that the proportion of asylum appeals dismissed by adjudicators from the Independent Appellate Authority is growing steadily.
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Andrew Motion, the Poet Laureate, has made a highly valued donation to a charity that helps victims of torture - a poem, with all rights going to support the charity's work.
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The day before the release of an Audit Commission report, widely expected to expose shortcomings in the current asylum dispersal system, a GBP1m project was launched in London to raise awareness of the health and welfare needs of refugees and asylum-seekers.
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The Home Secretary has given an assurance that the Government will not deduct from asylum seekers' allowance the value of toys that charities provide for their children. The problem remains that the Government defines toys as not an "essential living need".
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The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, a registered charity that runs the only treatment centre in the United Kingdom dedicated to helping victims of torture, has launched a GBP4.7m "Under One Roof" appeal for new premises.
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MPs have been asked in an Early Day Motion to donate toys to refugee children in a grassroots campaign against new government legislation which will deprive the children of asylum seekers of play things.
