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Responding to the Needs of Women who Survive Torture: From silent torment to speaking out

An article by Sabina Acosta, (1995). Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture, Toronto, Ontario, 1995.

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The Continuing Ordeal: Long Term Needs of Surviving Torture. Exerts from 'Community Support for Survivors of Torture'

By Dr. Raul Berdichevsky, (1995). Published by the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture, Toronto, Ontario, 1995.

Link [Last update: 2006-01-16; 13:25]

Politics of Torture: Dispelling Myths and Understanding the Survivors. Exerts from 'Community Support for Survivors of Torture'

An article by Joan Simalchik, (1995). Published by the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture, Toronto, Ontario.

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Torture Mental Health: Project on genocide, psychiatry and witnessing

An article by Stevan Weine M.D (1999) University of Illinois at Chicago.

Link [Last update: 2006-01-16; 13:25]

Torture and War Trauma Survivors in Primary Care Practice

An article by Harvey M. Weinstein et al (1996). Western Journal of Medicine, September.

Link [Last update: 2006-01-16; 13:26]

Canadian Centre for the Victims of Torture

Provides links to relevant articles.

Link [Last update: 2006-01-16; 13:29]

Rape and other torture in the Chechnya Conflict: documented evidence from asylum seekers arriving in the UK.

Published April 2004
This report on torture and organised violence was published by the Medical Foundation.

Link [Last update: 2005-04-07; 14:50]

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