News archive for 2005
The Medical Foundation has welcomed the Law Lords decision that information extracted under torture abroad cannot be used in judicial proceedings in Britain
The Medical Foundation, with a number of other human rights groups,have published a statement criticising some counter-terrorism measures.
The Medical Foundation is one of 14 organisations asking the Law Lords to overturn a Court of Appeal judgment allowing evidence obtained abroad by torture to be admissable in domestic judicial proceedings.
The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the UK and Libya over the treatment of people who may be deported from Britain to the North African state is a further erosion of Britain's respect for human rights, the Medical Foundation has warned.
Dr Bhogendra Sharma, a Nepalese expert in treating victims of torture who has also played a leading international role in campaigning against its use, is helping plan the MF's overseas work.
The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture welcomed the upholding of the ban on returning failed asylum seekers to Zimbabwe.
The Medical Foundation has opened a new office in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne to provide training to health professionals and others working with asylum seekers and refugees in the North East in how best to improve the mental wellbeing of survivors of torture.
Torture survivors from the Medical Foundation's Write to Life project have produced a book of short stories about their experiences, called "From there to here"....Sheila Hayman , Co-ordinator of the project, explains:
Medical Foundation therapists are to provide training in trauma counselling to Master's degree psychology students at Prishtina University in Kosovo in a bid to bolster the provision of mental health services for torture and war survivors in the UN protectorate.
Chilean torture survivor Luis Munoz chose the Medical Foundation's London premises as the venue for the launch of his autobiography, Being Luis, which tells of his ordeal at the hands of the Pinochet regime in the 1970's.
he Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture has collaborated with two other British human rights groups to stage a photographic exhibition to mark the International Day in Support of Survivors of Torture (26 June).
Richard McKane is a survivor. Once a ferocious schoolboy squash champion, he now walks with a pronounced limp following an injury he sustained while in the grip of a mental breakdown after leaving university.
Amid the avalanche of sound bites and the acres of newsprint devoted to asylum and immigration in the run up to the General Election, one vital fact was in danger of being overlooked.
The death and destruction wrought by the tsunami on the shores of Sri Lanka heaps further suffering on an island already struggling with the legacy of a 20-year civil war.