News archive for 2002
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"It is with pride and a certain humility that I commend this book to its readers, for if anything reflects the human spirit and the capacity to overcome appalling adversity and loss, this chronicle of painstaking and creative endeavour will be an illustration and a guide..."
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Human rights campaigner and director of public affairs at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, Sherman Carroll, received an MBE in recognition of his pioneering work with the charity, and with Amnesty International.
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Millennium Commissioner Floella Benjamin OBE, will tomorrow [subs: Wed, July 31] launch British charity the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture's GBP400,000 project to enable people who have suffered serious human rights abuses to develop skills that benefit their refugee communities.
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New government asylum rules will see torture victims removed from the country, possibly back into the hands of their torturers, simply because the new rules deny victims the time to explain their case, a leading British human rights organisation says.
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The British government is accused today of consistently failing to protect asylum seekers from Cameroon, a West African country where torture is widespread and systematic.
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The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture has appointed a new director to take over from Dr Helen Bamber, the charity's founder/director who will stand down later this year.
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A billion words which if laid out in one continuous line would still be 1,000 miles (1500km) longer than the River Nile - is the target of a Book Fair in support of two of Britain's leading human rights organisations.
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Removing the beards of al-Qaeda prisoners for delousing purposes and forcing the men to wear masks, goggles, and thick gloves that deprive them of the sense of touch go beyond acceptable norms of security and hygiene, says a leading human rights charity.
