Freedom from Torture
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| Founded | 1985 by Helen Bamber in the United Kingdom |
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| Type | Charity |
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| Services | Treating survivors of torture, advocacy |
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Key people
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Susan Munroe (CEO) |
| Website | www.freedomfromtorture.org |
Freedom from Torture (previously known as The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture) is a British registered charity which provides therapeutic care for survivors of torture in the UK. Since it was established in 1985, over 52,000 people have been referred to the organisation for help.
Freedom from Torture provides medical and psychological documentation of torture, a range of therapies, including psychotherapy, individual and family counseling, physiotherapy and complementary therapies and group work as well as practical advice and support. It trains health professionals and others throughout the UK to work with torture survivors.
A key area of Freedom from Torture's work is educating the public and decision makers about torture and its consequences, and advocating for torture survivors with the aim of keeping this issue on the national agenda.
Freedom from Torture began in the early 1980s, as part of the Medical Group of Amnesty International.The organisation was set up to improve existing health services for torture survivors in the UK. This work initially took the form of campaigns against violations of human rights and the documentation of evidence of torture by volunteer health professionals and senior medical specialists as a reaction .
In 1985, under the leadership of Helen Bamber, the organisation was established as a registered charity. It provided medical treatment, counselling and therapy to torture survivors and documented evidence of torture using the . Sponsorship came from the heads of the Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of Psychiatrists and Royal College of Surgeons of England.
It worked at first in two rooms in the former National Temperance Hospital, off Hampstead Road in north-west London. By 1990, the organisation was treating 750 clients and then moved to a building in Grafton Road, Kentish Town.
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