Links to Online Resources for for Torture Survivors, Asylum-Seekers, & Refugees:
From course by Anthony Marsella, Past President of Psychologists for Soical Responsibility, links courtesy of Kenneth Pope, http://kspope.com/torvic/torture.php
Advocates for Survivors of Torture & Trauma
Amani Community-based Care of Survivors of Torture and Organised Violence
AMCHA Israeli Center for Holocaust Survivors
American Association for the Advancement of Science Human Rights Action Network
Amnesty for Women
Amnesty International Canada
Amnesty International Online
Amnesty International UK
Amnesty International USA
Asian Human Rights Commission
Association for Prevention of Torture
Association for Services to Torture and Trauma Survivors
Association for Solidarity With Asylum Seekers & Migrants
Association of Refugees & Asylum Seekers of Ireland
Asylum Network
Asylum Support
Bellvue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture
Berlin Center for Treatment of Torture Victims
Boston Center for Refugee Health & Human Rights
Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture
Canadian Council for Refugees
Caring for Refugees and Survivors of Torture: An Online Course
Center for Justice and Accountability
Center for Multicultural Human Services Survivors of Torture and Trauma Program
Center for Survivors of Torture, Dallas
Center for Survivors of Torture & War Trauma, St. Louis, Missouri
Center for Victims of Torture, Minneapolis
Center for Victims of Torture, Nepal
CINAT: Coalition of International NGOs against Torture
Citizenship & Immigration Canada
Danish Refugee Council
Derechos Human Rights
Detained Torture Survivor Legal Support Network
Detention Watch Network
Edmonton Center for Survivors of Torture and Trauma
Electronic Immigration Network, U.K.
Episcopal Migration Ministry Serving Refugees & Immigrants
ETICA Treatment Centre for Traumatised Refugees, Migrants, and Danes (Copenhagen, Denmark)
European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
European Council on Refugees in Exile
F.I.R.S.T. Project for Immigrants & Refugees Surviving Torture
Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project
Florida Center for Survivors of Torture & Refugees
Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center
Geneva Conventions
Global Lawyers and Physicians for Human Rights
Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma
Health Professional's Guide to Medical and Psychological Evaluations of Torture
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
Human Rights First
Human Rights Hotline
Human Rights Internet
Human Rights Organizations Database
Human Rights Watch
Huridocs Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems, International
Immigration Resource Directory
International Center for the Protection of Human Rights
International Committee of the Red Cross
International Detention Coalition
International Federation of Action by Christians Against Torture (FIACAT)
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
International League for Human Rights
International Refugee Program
International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
International Rescue Committee
International Service for Human Rights
Irish Refugee Council
Istanbul Protocol: International Guidelines for the
Investigation & Documentation of Torture
Kenya Human Rights Commission Resource Center
Kwazulu-Natal Programme for Survivors of Violence
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (see Human Rights First)
Lawyers Without Borders
Los Angeles Program for Torture Victims
Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service
Marjorie Kovier Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture of the Heartland (Chicago & the Midwest)
Medact Refugeee Health Network
Medical Evaluations of Asylum Seekers
Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture
Medical Justice: Seeking Basic Rights for Detainees
National Center for PTSD
National Immigration Law Center
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Norwegian Refugee Council
Organization for Aid to Refugees, Prague, Czech Republic
Organization for Defending Victims of Violence, Iran
Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center
The Phoenix Centre for Torture Survivors, Tasmania
Physicians for Human Rights
PILOTS: Searchable database of published literature on PTSD
Program for Survivors of Torture & Severe Trauma
Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma
Redress
Refugee Immigration Ministry, Boston
Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims
Responding to Victims of Torture: Clinical Issues, Professional Responsibilities, & Useful Resources
Rights International: Center for International Human Rights Law
RIVO: Intervention Network for People Having Been Subjected to Organized Violence
Rocky Mountain Survivors Center
Scholars at Risk Network
Service Dogs For Victims of Assault (Note: Only survivors of specific types of torture will qualify)
Sprog Center Denmark (language courses for traumatized refugees or survivors of torture)
Survivors International
Survivors of Torture International
Torture (chapter published by Academic Press)
Tortura Nunca Mais
Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition
Torture & Its Neurological Sequelae
Torture & Psychological Health
Torture Reporting Handbook
Torture Treatment Center of Oregon
Torture and War Trauma Survivors in Primary Care Practice
Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture
Traumatic Stress Institute
Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre for Victims of Torture (TRC), Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine
U.S. Committee for Refugees
U.S. Conclusions and Recommendations of the Committee against Torture
U.S. Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
U.N. Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
U.N. Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights
U.N. Human Rights
U.N. Methods of Combating Torture
U.N. Principles of Medical Ethics relevant to the Role of Health Personnel, particularly Physicians, in the Protection of Prisoners and Detainees against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization
Vancouver Association for Survivors of Torture (VAST)
Victoria Coalition for Survivors of Torture (VCST)
Victorian Foundation for the Survivors of Torture
Wellington Refugees As Survivors, New Zealand
Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children
World Legal Information Institute
World Organization Against Torture
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