Torture: Rehabilitation experts from 80 nations meet in Mexico City
Public Release: 4-Dec-2016
Torture: Rehabilitation experts from 80 nations meet in Mexico City
100+ presentations on cases worldwide, from Syria, Central America, Africa, Guantanamo Bay; Sexual violence as torture; Treatment and recovery from atrocities; Enforcing nations' legal obligation to provide rehabilitation
International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
Rehabilitating survivors of torture -- the infliction of severe mental or physical pain or suffering for a specific purpose -- and enforcing the legal obligations of nations to provide help is the agenda of a world scientific symposium in Mexico City Dec. 5-7.
Over 300 participants -- 70% of them clinical professionals -- from 80 nations will exchange expertise, experience and research on torture rehabilitation at the three-day event, organized by the Denmark-based International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims.
More than 100 presentations will address issues ranging from widespread torture in Syria, the refugee transit camps of southern Europe and elsewhere, the plight of Central American migrants, and a trio of talks on the US detention centre opened in 2006 at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the denial of help to survivors is called "torture by other means."
Torture thrives in the 21st Century. Amnesty International has documented cases over the past five years in more than 140 countries -- three-quarters of all nations -- leaving victims to deal with a range of long-term consequences.
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https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-12/tca-tre112816.php