Work
The work of the IRCT can be divided into three areas:
- Offering rehabilitation services to torture survivors
- Countering impunity for perpetrators and promoting justice for survivors
- Raising awareness among policy-makers and citizens
The stated vision of the IRCT is "a world that values and accepts shared responsibility for the eradication of torture". The objective of the organization is to promote the provision of specialized treatment and rehabilitation services for victims of torture and to contribute to the prevention of torture globally. To further these goals, the IRCT seeks on an international basis:
- to develop and maintain an advocacy programme that accumulates, processes and disseminates information about torture as well as the consequences and the rehabilitation of torture
- to establish international funding for rehabilitation services and programmes for the prevention of torture
- to promote the education and training of relevant professionals in the medical as well as social, legal and ethical aspects of torture
- to encourage the establishment and maintenance of rehabilitation services
- to establish and expand institutional relations in the international effort to abolish the practice of torture
- to support all other activities that may contribute to the prevention of torture, and
- to promote knowledge of and use of the Istanbul Protocol to promote access to torture survivors to high-quality medico-legal, or forensic, documentation of torture for use in legal proceedings.
The IRCT has special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council and the UN Department of Public Information, and participatory status with the Council of Europe.
Important collaboration partners include (but are not limited to) the World Medical Association (WMA), the World Confederation of Physical Therapy (WCPT), the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), the International Council of Nurses (ICN), and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR).
The IRCT also works in partnership with governments, human rights organisations, health professional organisations and intergovernmental organisations.
Read more about this topic: International Rehabilitation Council For Torture Victims
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