A world without torture and other forms of organised violence
Shirin Shabana Khan
PVCHR sent letter to Prime Minister of India regarding
implementation of Section D of Prime Minister’s New 15 Point Programme for
Welfare of Minorities’
Peoples' Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR): Regarding implementation of Section D of Prime
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Taking the reference of Prime Minister's New 15 Point Programme for Welfare of Minorities declared in 2006 section (D) Prevention & Control of Communal Riots.
Lenin Raghuvanshi PVCHR with the collaboration of a Danish organization Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT) has provided psychological support through testimonial therapy to Mukhtar Ahmad and Salim, the father of the deceased two youngsters Moin Akhtar and Khali-uj –Jama.
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Videresend meget gerne denne begivenhed i dit netværk - på forhånd tak.
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Den honduransk modstandsleder Juan Almendares er på besøg i Danmark. Kom og mød ham hos RCT på mandag kl. 18.
Juan Almendares, ledende i den honduranske modstandsfront samt stifter og leder af menneskerettighedsorganisationen CPTRT (Centr...o de Prevención Tratamiento y Rehabilitación de las Victimas de la Tortura y sus Familiares) er på et kort besøg i Danmark til og med mandag 23. november.
RCT arrangerer et aktuelt møde på mandag kl. 18 i Borgergade 13 i København for alle interesserede. Juan Almendares vil indlede om den aktuelle situation og USAs rolle i Honduras op til kupregeringens valg 29.november. Der vil være mulighed for efterfølgende spørgsmål og diskussion. Mødet vil være på engelsk.
Aftaler om interviews kan rettes til Tue Magnussen, RCT, mobil 22 44 43 95 også i weekenden.
CPTRT’s stifter og leder er miljø- og menneskerettighedsforkæmperen Juan Almendares, som tillige er tidligere universitetsrektor. Han var kandidat ved det præsidentvalg som - den i juni 2009 afsatte præsident - Zelaya vandt i 2005. I protest mod militærkuppet 28. juni har han været med til at danne en ikke-voldelig folkebevægelse samt opfordret til international fordømmelse af kupmagerne og aktuelt det planlagte valg om kun en uge, 29. november.
RCT har siden 1994 arbejdet i Honduras. RCT’s honduranske samarbejdspartner, CPTRT, offenliggjorde tidligere på måneden en rapport om de menneskerettighedskrænkelser, der har fundet sted i det latinamerikanske land siden kuppet 28. juni, se www.rct.dk
Rapporten dokumenterer hele 475 tilfælde af tortur eller anden grusom, umenneskelig eller nedværdigende behandling siden kuppets begyndelse. Under kuppet har organisationen i snit modtaget 118 torturofre om måneden. Til sammenligning har organisationen i de foregående to år i snit modtaget mellem to og tre torturofre om måneden. Med rapporten kræver CPTRT, at den honduranske stat undersøger sagerne og retsforfølger de ansvarlige for torturen, samt at ofrene for torturen får den behandling og oprejsning, som de har behov for.
RCT har tidligere opfordret bl.a. FN, EU og Danmark til øjeblikkelig handling i forhold til den kritiske menneskerettighedssituation i Honduras og støttet den honduranske modtands krav om, at Zelaya skal genindsættes, hvis det planlagte valg 29. november skal betragtes som legitimt.
Sammen med ni andre danske organisationer indgår RCT i et Honduras-netværk. Grundlaget for den fælles platform er en fordømmelse af militærkuppet og overtrædelserne af menneskerettigheder i Honduras. Der kræves en genindførelse af demokratiet og styrkelse af de demokratiske institutioner. I lyset af begivenhederne i Honduras vil netværket arbejde for, at Danmark opretholder sin tilstedeværelse i og bistand til Mellemamerika.
Juan Almendares vil under sit besøg i Danmark have møder med bl.a. RCT og Udenrigsministeriet.
Yderligere oplysninger: Advocacykoordinator Tue Magnussen, RCT, tlf. 22 44 43 95
Time:6:00PM Monday, November 23rd
Location:RCT
RCT Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims 's feed: Sri Lanka Lawlessness
Presidential power must be curbed in Sri Lanka
Presidential and parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka are expected in the coming months. The government’s approach is to rely on its victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to consolidate its power for a further term. Its statements do not indicate any signific...ant changes to existi...
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See MorePresidential and parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka are expected in the coming months. The government’s approach is to rely on its victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to consolidate its power for a further term. Its statements do not indicate any signific...ant changes to existi...
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RCT Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims 's feed: Sri Lanka Lawlessness
The absence of legal protection – does the law mean anything?
“Does the law mean anything in Sri Lanka for such citizens? As almost every citizen belongs to similar categories as the persons mentioned above, it may be justified to ask, what the law means in Sri Lanka to its citizens who are entitled by law for protec...tion but are deprived, in fact, of s...
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See More“Does the law mean anything in Sri Lanka for such citizens? As almost every citizen belongs to similar categories as the persons mentioned above, it may be justified to ask, what the law means in Sri Lanka to its citizens who are entitled by law for protec...tion but are deprived, in fact, of s...
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RCT Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims Danish expert presents human rights violations in Gaza. Video by Press TV http://presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=108514
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Shirin Shabana Khan
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The quarterly report (1,July - 30, September,2009)of the Capacity building on testimonial therapy for Human Rights Organization in India, pilot Phase III, funded by Rehabilitation and Research Center for ...
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Glem ikke bedsteforældrenes fødselsdag
To år er ingen alder for bedsteforældre. Alligevel er der en fødselsdag som fortjener en særlig opmærksomhed. Siden 7. oktober 2007 har Bedsteforældre for Asyl stædigt og sejt stået foran Sandholm-lejren mere end 100 søndage i al slags vejr. Og ikke alene har man stået ved Sandho...lm, ...
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See MoreTo år er ingen alder for bedsteforældre. Alligevel er der en fødselsdag som fortjener en særlig opmærksomhed. Siden 7. oktober 2007 har Bedsteforældre for Asyl stædigt og sejt stået foran Sandholm-lejren mere end 100 søndage i al slags vejr. Og ikke alene har man stået ved Sandho...lm, ...
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RCT and OMCT express their serious concern about a new decree restricting basic human rights and freedoms in Honduras putting arrested persons at great risk of being ill-treated or tortured.
Gabriela Bistot
"2do Concierto Por la Paz" .13 de Octubre a las 19hs.
Salon Dorado de la Legislatura Porteña. (Peru 160). Tu presencia es parte Vital de esta Causa, porque en ti esta la Flor de la Esperanza para esta Tierra, no faltes!!!! ...Gaby Bistot
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RCT holder et aktuelt, videnskabeligt seminar med retsmediciner Jørgen Lange Thomsen, Syddansk Universitet, i RCT’s kantine, Borgergade 13, København, mandag 12. oktober 2009 kl. 16-17.30 .
Jørgen Lange Thomsen er professor ved Retsmedicinsk Institut på Syddansk Universitet. Han deltog efter det israelske angreb mod Gaz...a i januar 2009 i en international undersøgelseskommission, som i april udsendte en 92-sider lang rapport: ”Final Report. Independent fact-finding mission into violations of human rights in the Gaza Strip during the period 27.12.2008 – 18.01.2009”.
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Time:4:00PM Monday, October 12th
Location:RCT
Lenin Raghuvanshi Activists such as Raghuvanshi and organisations such as the PVCHR and the NHRC have raised their voices on these lines for long, but they are yet to get a positive response from the political establishment.
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IF one goes by the proclamations of the mainstream political parties in India, all of them are critical of all forms of extrajudicial killing. Leaders of all parties have time and again raised their voices against encounter killings and custodial deaths. ...
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by Dr. Peter Polatin, RCT, followed by a discussion (moderator: Dr. Bengt H Sjölund).
Functional restoration was an early application of ICF principles to the disease entity of chronic low back pain. It was subsequently broadened to address other musculo-skeletal and neuropathic pain syndromes. The bio-psycho-social mo...del, as opposed to the more traditional medical model, has greater utility when addressing not only the primary disease process, but also the social, environmental, familial, and cultural factors which are inevitably associated with chronic illness.
This presentation will: 1.) review current treatment options for chronic low back pain, 2.) discuss a bio-psycho-social contextualization of chronic low back pain as an example of chronic pain, 3.) point to the complicating factors of secondary and tertiary gain, 4.) review the basic elements of functional restoration and show how they incorporate a bio-psycho-social approach to this disease process. The utilization of pre-ICF body function (b) and activity/participation (c) categories resulted in the derivation of a monitoring and evaluation system to guide the treatment, which will be presented. An interdisciplinary approach incorporating the skills of psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, disability case managers, and physicians contributed to behavioral outcomes which were far superior to those of prior therapeutic approaches. An alteration of the randomized control trial will be discussed, which allowed initial validation of the treatment methodology. This was followed by three subsequent randomized control studies in different centers which further validated the therapy.
Finally, there will be a brief discussion comparing the development of this treatment approach to the challenges facing clinicians and researchers in the field of rehabilitation for victims of torture.
Time:2:30PM Wednesday, November 25th
Location:RCT
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Seminar ved Darius Rejali, Professor i Statskundskab, Reed College, Oregon, USA, og gæsteforsker ved Dansk Institut for Menneskerettigheder. Foredraget holdes på engelsk.
Efter præsentationen vil RCTs forskere indlede en diskussion om Professor Rejalis konklusioner set i lyset af RCTs globale forebyggelsesarbejde.
Resume...: Why do regimes, democratic or autocratic, persistently torture, how do they torture and what are the differences between the ways democracies and autocratic regimes torture? These are questions that Professor Darius Rejali poses in his book, “Torture and Democracy”. This book is probably the most prominent, thorough and comprehensive book on torture in existence. In this scientific seminar Professor Rejali will discuss the implications for prevention of torture in the light of the book’s conclusions.
Time:2:30PM Wednesday, September 23rd
Location:RCT, Borgergade 13
