Survivors of Torture: Assistance, Care and Rehabilitation Conference
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The final symposium of the Good Practice (Victims of Torture) project took place in Nicosia. A conference was organised as part of that symposium by Future Worlds Center and its Unit for Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture (URVT). The Unit for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture (URVT) hosted the Ministry of Interior Asylum Service, UNHCR and Ombudswoman’s Office as well as its European partners from Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Romania and France for a symposium to discuss ways European Centres for the Rehabilitation of Torture Victims can align their methods of operation to better serve vulnerable groups.
Project's background
Future Worlds Center (leg.reg. Cyprus Neuroscience & Technology Institute – CNTI) is one of the six European partner organizations who are currently involved on the project' Promotion and dissemination of good practice in addressing specific needs of vulnerable groups – especially victims of torture and human rights violations – based on a transnational in-depth study and evaluation of working and treatment methods ' which run under the German Association of Psychological Centers for Refugees and Victims of Torture (BAFF) and is funded under the European Commission – European refugee Fund Community Actions 2009.
Good Practice (Torture Victims) project, aims to develop a common approach within the EU on the specific needs of most vulnerable groups, especially those who have undergone torture or other severe human rights violations.
Participants
Representatives from the Ministry of Interior, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR),and the Ombudsman's office presented their approach on the subject, whilst members from the project's partner organisations in Europe focused on their own experience. Additional to URVT's european partners, members of civil society; human rights advocates; academics; lawyers; psychologists; social workers and in general, professionals actively working in the field of refugees, asylum seekers and victims of torture were comprising the audience of the conference.
