The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT): Healing torture survivors globally, strengthening partners who heal, advocating for an end to #torture. RT≠Endorsement
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🌟 NEW EPISODE 🌟
For #WorldRefugeeAwarenessMonth, we sat down with Lorraine Charles to hear about @_Naamal's work to prepare refugees for the global workforce.
🎙️ Listen to the full conversation at newtactics.org/conversations…
#RefugeeRights #HumanRights #HumanRightsChat
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Center for Victims of Torture retweeted
Happy to present the Therapeutic Documentation Model by @CVTorg as trauma informed approach to documenting survivors stories at #UgandaNatonalMentalHealthConference to achieve both healing and justice outcomes. @MinofHealthUG @DianaAtwine @nyahagon
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Through sanctions and unlawful threats of military action, the Trump administration is deepening the humanitarian crisis in Cuba. At the same time, they are once again threatening to use the Guantanamo Base, a prison with a history of dehumanizing and abusing people, to detain Cuban immigrants.
I led 31 of my colleagues to demand an end to the Trump administration's unlawful plans in Cuba.
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The Center for Victims of Torture, organized 2days training for LRA war survivors under WAPU support
in kitgum, aimed at pursuing self reliant.Among them is Adong Jennifer from lukwor, repatriated by @ICRC from Central Africa with a bullet embedded in her right leg. @CVTorg
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Center for Victims of Torture retweeted
Apr 23
NEW: @CivCenter over 120 groups from around the world call on all States to stop support for US extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and Pacific or risk legal responsibility. civiliansinconflict.org/pres…
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Center for Victims of Torture retweeted
Grandma takes you to a baseball game and you accidentally unlock a core memory on live TV that’ll follow you for the rest of your life.
Props to the guy in the hockey jersey for giving the kid the ball.
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Close Guantanamo Joins 85 Other Organizations Opposing Plans to Hold Cuban Migrants at #Guantanamo - my new article, promoting a letter to Congress decrying a proposal to hold Cubans at Gitmo if they flee the US blockade closeguantanamo.org/Articles…
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“If the Trump administration is worried about Cuban migration, the solution is simple: stop intentionally impoverishing the Cuban people through an embargo & fuel blockade,” said @michael_galant, senior research associate at @ceprdc, one of the groups that signed onto the letter.
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On one side of Guantánamo Bay, U.S. soldiers face a temporary disruption in the availability of lattes. On the other side, Cubans sit in darkness, waiting for the power to come back on.
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NEW Yumna Rizvi on GTMO gaining new life — with potential Cuban migrants. responsiblestatecraft.org/gu…
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Center for Victims of Torture retweeted
Apr 8
Currently, 15 men remain prisoners in #Guantanamo, detained in conditions described by a former UN special rapporteur as “ongoing cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment…and may also meet the legal threshold for #torture.”
#TruthMatters
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Center for Victims of Torture retweeted
"Until Guantánamo is closed, it will continue to rear its ugly head. Its very existence offers a ready-made loophole — a place designed to sit outside the law and public scrutiny." -- Yumna Rizvi
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CVT joins @amnestyusa and partners in this call for an end to threats of war crimes.
A threat to wipe out “a whole civilization” may amount to a threat of genocide. We urge all parties to respect international law. Those responsible for atrocities can and must be held accountable.
bit.ly/41YjxpP
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Center for Victims of Torture retweeted
BREAKING: After weeks of organizing, we have reached the majority necessary to force a vote to extend Haiti TPS.
Thank you to our coalition and everyone fighting for this critical lifeline for the 350,000 Haitian nationals.
Our neighbors are so deserving.
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Apr 2
I spent 4 years trying to get @CVTorg accreditation at the United Nations. At every NGO committee session we would be blocked by a State hostile to human rights. Other States need to end this bureaucratic censorship and exclusion.
Press release: together with 25 other UN Special Procedures, I am calling on States that champion human rights defenders to consider candidacy for the ECOSOC NGO Committee.
The Committee is key when it comes to civil society being able to access UN spaces, yet the majority of States seeking election to it actively repress human rights defenders in their own countries and there is already an alarming trend of States using the Committee to block human rights organisations.
States that support civil society must stand up and ensure the elections are contested.
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Center for Victims of Torture retweeted
Mar 26
Grateful for the frank and meaningful discussions with a wide range of stakeholders in Washington, DC over the past days. Human Rights bind us together. Looking forward to continuing and expanding these exchanges.
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I spent 4 years trying to get @CVTorg accreditation at the United Nations. At every NGO committee session we would be bureaucratically blocked by a State hostile to human rights. Real independent civil society voices are being obstructed and excluded. thehill.com/opinion/internat…
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On March 8, we recognize International Women’s Day. This year and every year, CVT stands with the thousands of women around the world who are survivors of torture. In 2025, 72% of the clients we saw in our clinics outside the U.S. were women. After massive cuts to our U.S. funding, thousands more survivors are without care today. And with more than 117 million people forcibly displaced globally, care for survivors, and for all the women and girls among them, is needed more than ever.
#IWD
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The Center for Victims of Torture is proud to participate in this important workshop to strengthen victims’ skills and voices in transitional justice efforts. Thank you to the @EthioHRC for hosting this key event.
Strengthening victims’ voices, protection, and wellbeing is essential for meaningful engagement in transitional justice processes
🔗 ehrc.org/?p=36321
#Ethiopia🇪🇹 #HumanRightsForAll
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Important and meaningful steps have been taken for victims under the Yazidi Survivors Law. Today at the 5-year mark it's time to close remaining gaps for justice and accountability. CVT is proud to join this statement.
@c4jrOrg
Joint Statement | Five Years Since the Enactment of the Yazidi Survivors Law (YSL)
📄 Read and Download the Full statement in:
English: c4jr.org/wp-content/uploads/…
Arabic: tinyurl.com/mc7yym32
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