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Torture, 2021 Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we developed remote assessment to provide interim medicolegal reports, ensuring people could obtain medical evidence to support their asylum claim. The Freedom from Torture research ethics committee approved the project.
Juliet Cohen +4 more
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State Crime, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has reconfigured personal, organisational and political landscapes in quite radical ways. This paper reflects on the differentiated impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and responses to it.
Andrew M. Jefferson +3 more
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Group physiotherapy with survivors of torture in urban and camp settings in Jordan and Kenya
Torture, 2021 Introduction: In this paper we report provisional field results on the impact of CVT’s (the Center for Victims of Torture) interdisciplinary group treatment on physiotherapy indicators in refugees living in urban and camp settings in Kenya and Jordan ...
Laura Janet Pizer Gueron +6 more
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Torture, 2021 Introduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate the acceptability of a physiotherapeutic pain treatment (Pain School), focusing on patient education, physical exercises and self-reliance, and a capacity building program developed for MENA based ...
Anne-Mette Karrer +3 more
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Military Medicine, 2001 Torture represents an exceptionally traumatic experience in which horror, helplessness, and hopelessness are extreme. Therefore, it can be expected that depression, along with other trauma-related disorders is present in torture victims at higher rates than in other psychotraumatized individuals. To demonstrate this, we examined two groups of refugees,
Rončević-Gržeta, Ika +3 more
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Torture, 2020 Introduction: Independent monitoring of places of detention is considered an effective way of preventing torture, but some reports have shown that detainees may face reprisals after engaging with monitors.This pilot study aims to further ...
Marie Brasholt +6 more
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BJPsych Open, 2023 Torture is designed to silence, render powerless, oppress and terrify not just the individual torture survivor but the whole society where the act of torture occurs.
Kolbassia Haoussou, Katy Robjant
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Torture, 2021 Introduction: Literature about treatment of survivors of torture tends to focus on counseling and primary medical care. There are fewer published articles about the utilization of physiotherapy at treatment centers for survivors of torture and other ...
Laura Janet Pizer Gueron +1 more
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Torture without Torturers [PDF]
Current Anthropology, 2020 What happens when trauma becomes a political frame for recognizing anti-black racism and police violence?
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Protocol on Medico-Legal Documentation of Sleep Deprivation
Torture, 2019 This Protocol originates from a joint project regarding documentation of psychological torture initiated by the Public Committee against Torture in Israel (PCATI), REDRESS and DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture (DIGNITY) in 2015 after the ...
Pau Pérez-Sales +4 more
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